Dr Vandermast

A chess board featuring a puzzle. FEN: rn2Qb2/pp2p2p/4knp1/3N1p2/2BP1B2/8/P3KPPP/7q w - - 0 1

White to move.

Puzzle "Mate in 1" from chess.com. #ChessPuzzles

"THE DALEKS by TERRY NATION as featured in the BBC TV series "DR. WHO"" ("TV21" issue 59 (dated 05/03/66)). #DoctorWho

Okay none of that makes sense. 😀

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Intergalactic Monkey Business!

Happy World Book Day! I'm spending the day packing up ALL my books, ready to move house.

But I'm gonna take a break to update you on the Pillar of Popularity.

Jamie Smart's Bunny vs Monkey: Intergalactic Monkey Business! is still doing really well - it's our number 5 this week!

Where I work, the staff dressed up instead. Still fun, no pressure on families.

Guardian headline: Refused asylum seeker families will be offered up to £40,000 to leave Britain under pilot scheme, says Shabana Mahmood.

And they talk about 'pull factors'.

BLM Announces Plan to Fell Oregon's Last Great Forests One billion board feet per year... 30 days to make your voice heard.

morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/blm-announ... there's info on who to complain to to try to stop this at the end of the article, lets share this message and try our best to stop it.

Beware of false profits.‼️

The Devil Wind Murders book cover of a woman in a hat surrounded by flowers.

I wanted to grapple with the topic of aging and career. What do you do when you can't physically do the job that you are really great at? I wanted my main character to face the fact that she can't keep up with the 30-somethings. What's her next move? #booksky #retirement #aging a.co/d/01L7k9BQ

Ok so before my pamphlet comes out in November, I need to make some changes to ensure I have a bookcase behind me when I Zoom. I think the easiest way to do that is going to be move house?? Worth it. It’ll be worth it. I SHALL be writerly.

Print out a photo of a bookcase one metre square and attach it by an appropriate contraption to your waist and shoulders. That way you can have a literary background wherever you go.

At a glance I saw BRAIN JOY MARATHON, which aptly describes such a collection.

Dear MAGA: Remember when Qanon was going to work with Trump to arrest all those pedophiles in Epstein's files?

So... ... What happened there?

The BBC has been Frankenstein to the monster Farage and their refusal to acknowledge it is an open sore in our culture.

Absolutely

I need some recommendations for the best Arthurian novels - the original Malory (there must be a good modern English version?), retellings, re-imaginings, modern and old, including works that aren't quite retellings but take a lot of inspiration (like The Everlasting by @alixeharrow.bsky.social).

Oh, and Rick Wakeman's lively album The Myth and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.

And Stephen Caudel's instrumental 'telling', The Earth in Turquoise.

Guy Gavriel Kay's The Fionavar Tapestry (trilogy beginning with The Summer Tree) embeds a treatment.

Once and Future King, patchy but good.

Malory is hard-going.

We need to make sure we're prepared for when It Happens and ask some hard questions now. For instance, is it possible to fly a flag at double-mast?

For years on my old blog I published the names of servicemembers who died in Iraq & Afghanistan. No other outlets were.

These are the first 4 Americans to die in the Iran War.
Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35
Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42
Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39
Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20

A mockumentary in the vein of 7 Up, reuniting the toys of the 1970s' Play School to talk about how their lives worked out. Big Ted, Little Ted, Hamble, Jemima and Humpty. Grim.

Uneasy Lies the Head Uneasy Lies the Head is royal court intrigue in the form of a tabletop roleplaying game for 2-5 players. The game is at its best as a short...

Uneasy Lies the Head is offically released!

Embroil yourself in royal court intrigue by picking up a copy from my store today!

You can pick up the book for $25, or get the Royal Edition boxed set for $80. Check it out now:

shop.adambell.games/product/unea...

wow -- Tillis goes ballistic on Noem, telling her "what we've seen is a disaster under your leadership"

LOST (Palindrome by Pairs)

On most
loyal ash
lay a lost
moon.

BLUMENTHAL: The agent who shot her said, 'I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book, boys. I'm up for another around of F around and find out.' Will you join me in condemning that agent?

KRISTI NOEM: That situation, I don't know the details, but I will look into that

The Gifts Of Kindness Amazon.com: The Gifts Of Kindness eBook : Hauger, M.Y.: Kindle Store

Let's celebrate books this week! Feel free to share your books, if you'd like. If you share them, I'll repost them!
www.amazon.com/Gifts-Kindne...
#books #fiction #readers #booklovers #readacrossamerica #kindness #booksky

The Dreams of a Seahorse Fantasy Poems. By Jason Mills.

Why, thank you. 😀

The Dreams of a Seahorse
Fantasy Poems

#fantasy #poetry

mybook.to/seahorsedreams