So I recommended the book Blood Song by Anthony Ryan on the other forum and David warned me that Ryan had been picked up by Penguin Publishing and the next book might not be as good. I listened to what he said but I thought there's no way that the guy who wrote Blood Song (which I think of as a top ...

It's been awhile since we've been to the mail bag so lets have a look. Connie from Rutland Vermont asks: Twips how come so many of Dale's books leave the main character in a position where others treat them so badly? Connie I think that Dale looks at the world and people a little differently then th...

Thank you David. Please enjoy this complimentary glass of 10 year old Laphroaig single malt scotch.

Hey Ron I was curious about the program as well. What I don't understand is how they will pay the authors. If I signed up for the program could I read an authors entire catalog for 10 bucks when the value of the books is say 100 dollars? If you only read books once it sounds like a great deal for th...

So I saw on the other forum that Dale is talking about a Sarah book and I couldn't be more pleased. That book sounds almost as good to me as a new Tor book. To celebrate I believe I'll have some scotch a little early today. Cheers!

Oh I intend to Argy. A few more years and I'll be done here and on my way home. Almost all you guys live fairly close to each other so we can all meet half way and have a nice meal and 18 year old scotch to wash it down. Maybe we can even get Dale to fly in for the weekend.

So the roofer came out and takes a look before telling me in his best Texas accent "Yer roof ain't no good." So in my head I say "$%$ %^$ % ^&# $#%$#% #$%^$%^$%&^ #$%^$%^%!!!!!!!" Before politely responding "Well sir I only intend to live here about 5 more years so c...

Ah.. never made it to Hamburg. I did go to Frankfurt and some other smaller towns tho. One of my friends was in the Berlin Brigade before the wall fell and has lots of interesting stories about going over to East Berlin and how different it was at the time. I'd like to go back but will probably neve...

Well it sounds like you fellas are in at least similar builds of boats as me. John what city was your German exchange student from? I spent some time in Crailsheim Germany with a family when I was in high school. I enjoyed my stay there and your post brought back some good memories.

So my wife and I had a little argument about going home to visit the family over the summer. I felt it was a bad idea as I'm up to my neck in work. We went back and forth about it and I thought we had come to an agreement. Then last night my mother in law calls me and lays down the law. This women t...