by Rhiannon Paine | May 27, 2014 | General, It's a Mystery, Just for Fun
The last time I read a lot of 1930s Golden Age English mysteries, I ended up writing one in my sleep. I’m awake now, so there’s no excuse for this one. Still, let’s press on. Our story begins outside a village church, after Sunday service, as Hector Spector (the...
by Rhiannon Paine | May 1, 2014 | Artists & the Arts, General, Just for Fun
“The time has come,” the walrus said,“To talk of publishing:”Of synopses that sell your books,Of queries that take wing.” Okay, it’s not easy to imagine Lewis Carroll pitching the Alice books to literary agents, but let’s not let that stop us! Query:...
by Rhiannon Paine | Jan 6, 2014 | Artists & the Arts, General, Just for Fun
I’ve written about spam before, but the stuff continues to exert a strange fascination over me. My most recent crop – no, you wouldn’t have a crop of spam, would you – my most recent cans of spam contained items that seemed to be struggling to become a novel, taking...
by Rhiannon Paine | Sep 26, 2013 | Animal Crackers, General, Just for Fun
“Your cat may be even smarter than you think” read a rather alarming headline on the Hill’s pet food website. Only up to a point, dudes. Stringing me along Luna looked at me indifferently as I dangled a string in front of her. “Come on, girl,” I urged....
by Rhiannon Paine | Aug 5, 2013 | General, Once Upon a Time
In the autumn of 1970, I dropped out of U.C. Berkeley, took a job with an ecology group, and moved into a hippie pad on the corner of Ridge Road and Leroy Street. I should have finished my M.A. in Journalism that spring, but in April, after heated demonstrations over...
