argh!

Does anyone remember the friends episode when Phoebe tries to tell her bank she's got a wrong amount in there and they keep giving her more money?  (stupid question, of course you do, it's repeated every five fucking minutes)

Well I'm having a book related problem like this.

Last year, the lovely Kate Rothwell sent me two books: The Dictionary of Slang by Farmer and Henley. Book 1 and 2. Sadly only book one arrived and I've been after book 2 for a while. Finally—after I received a gift card for the Amazon Associates programme—I found a set of both books for only $0.17 !  The postage was $20 but it was worth it as far as I was concerned so I sent for it. I planned to pass on the superfluous book one in a promo contest or something.

Book one arrived.

I waited a while then contacted the seller and was told today "sorry, it was a listings error, we only had book one"!!!!!  So they've kindly refunded the whole amount.

BUT NOW I HAVE TWO BOOKS ONE AND NO BOOK TWO!!! Hulk Smash.

ETA: Hurrah!  Oxfam at amazon had book two! Sorted!

UK GLBT Meet Up News

from Josephine Myles who is organising the anthologies:

We now have confirmed publication dates for both anthologies which I
wanted to share with you, along with a list of the confirmed
contributors (this will be added to, as we are still receiving
submissions and don't close the call until Monday 16th May)

British Flash - to be published on 16th June as a free ebook
Contributing authors: Alex Beecroft, Stevie Carroll, Charlie Cochrane,
Erastes, Elin Gregory, Sandra Lindsey, Clare London, JL Merrow,
Josephine Myles, Zahra Owens, Caroline Stephens, Lisa Worrall and
Serena Yates.

Tea & Crumpet - to be published by JMS Books on 3rd July as an ebook.
Print copies should be available in time for the Meet.
Contributing authors: Alex Beecroft, Stevie Carroll, Jennie Caldwell,
Charlie Cochrane, Elin Gregory, Clare London, Anna Marie May, JL
Merrow, Josephine Myles, Zahra Owens, Jay Rookwood, Chris Smith, Lisa
Worrall and Serena Yates.

Please check out the website—you don't have to be an author to come, just a fan of the genre—and it's not too late to book.

http://ukmeet.weebly.com/

Game of Thrones 4 thoughts

I suppose I would be posting more about this series if it annoyed me. at the moment, aside from the fact that Jaime and Renly are no where near as beautiful as they should be, I think the whole thing is pitch perfect.

Tyrion and Littlefinger are pwning everyone else, as it should be, and when backstory is needed it's not all dumped in at the place in the book where it appears, it's placed in a spot where it can be exposed well and without "as you know, bob" dialogue. I know people were complaining that Theon Greyjoy hadn't been introduced,even though he was there in the scenes, and now that his story has been deftly explained in a short scene between himself and Tyrion we know enough about him which will hold until his story takes off later.

I love it. What more can I say?