Animals are psychic

[lizwilliams]

Came out of the bedroom this morning and thought: 'hmmm. What's that SMELL?' The entire house is scented with eau de swamp.

Two out of three dogs have located the rankest ditch on the premises and rolled in it. The German Shepherd is black and green. They always do this when they know - somehow - that one is going away and will not have time to bath them.

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[purplecthulhu.livejournal.com]

So the dogs have discovered biological warfare... Oh dear...

[mevennen.livejournal.com]

We're calling the UN inspections team in...

OFF SUBJECT COMMENT

[(Anonymous)]

Dear Dr Williams

I am a British SF-Fantasy author who has just delivered a novel MS, Lucy's Blade, to Baen for Xmas publication. It starts with Dr John Dee and the flying beetle incident at Cambridge (that chapter is published on Baen's Bar as a 'snippet' http://bar.baen.com/WB/?boardID=Bar). Anway, freed from the tyranny of writing, I went round to Forbidden Planet and bought a load of books including a signed copy of The Poison Master, as I hadn't read any of your work before. And I have read the first chapter about John Dee and Cambridge.......

Lucy's Blade is John Dee's athame, in my novel.

Fortunately, our novels are very different or you would be consulting Sue, Grabbit & Run, :)

I see you got your PhD from Cambridge in Philosophy of Science, mine came from the rather lower status Brunel university in Numerical Ecology. i am now a Museum Academic.

I am enjoying your novel immensely, I will be collecting the rest.

My apologies for hijacking this thread but I didn't know any other way to reach Dr Williams.

John Lambshead

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[mevennen.livejournal.com]

Dear John, (please call me Liz),

It's lovely to hear from you and I shall be looking out for your book! Dee's life contains so much scope that there's plenty for everyone, IMO. Peter Ackroyd has already done his worst. Did you read Benjamin Woolley's bio?

My writing group occasionally does exercises in which we all have a chosen theme. The results are invariably diverse.

all the best

Liz

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[(Anonymous)]

Dear Liz

Oh yes, my daughters gave me Woolley's book as a present. That started the ball rolling. I was already reading the latest biographies of Walsingham. I had written a short story hoping to sell it as a Tales of the Slayer to Schuster. It had a character called Lucy in it who briefly passed through the story. Lucy and Walsingham became the central figures in my novel. I am editing at the moment - I am a 'rougher' writer than you so spend a great deal of time editing. I haven't read Ackroyd.

I live over in Medway near the old naval base where they used to beach Elizabeth's galleons.

Right now I am planning the next novel. At the moment I am torn between Lucy II or Perseus & Andromeda.

Interesting that you are a Pagan. I have a friend in the civil service who has been advising me on same. You may recall that English witches are supposed to have used sea magic on the Armada.

all the best
John

[neutronjockey.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I have three four-legged wonders that commit to similar feats when they feel neglected and want some extra attention.

...thank god my wife doesn't do that!

-=Jeff=-

[missingvolume.livejournal.com]

Thank goodness all I have to deal with is the cat hiding when we get ready to leave on a trip.

Hopefully they didn't decide to jump on the furniture as well. ;-)