Last day of September - winter is nigh!

The final day of the RWC Pool stages dawned bright and clean. The sun is out and all's right with the world...

Except if you happen to be Welsh, and possibly Irish (at the time of writing this, Argentina are ahead 5-0) - given the rather large score line target that Ireland have to reach in beating Argentina today...we shall see how things develop. Still, if Ireland don't go through, perhaps the Welsh will share the aircraft home with them. Scotland are through to the Quarter Finals, as are England - personally, I don't think England should have made it through. Their performance seems to have been rather lack-luster and almost "too little, too late". There were far better teams in the England Pool who deserved the chance at the Quarters.

Episode 15 of Terra Incognita has been uploaded to Podiobooks.com, and is awaiting the tender mercies of that dedicated team, who give their time freely, to build and maintain the Podiobooks.com site and community. Kevin, the Narrator, has gone to the US for a couple of weeks training - anyone seeing him in Texas, make sure he gets on a flight home before too long.

A very good friend of mine, Geoff Nelder, has an anthology of science fiction stories (Dimensions), co-written with Robert Blevins and published by Adventure Books Of Seattle. I'm recording/editing the intros and outros of Dimensions, ready for submission to Podiobooks.com - these are good stories and well worth listening too, or even buying the book and reading :-)

I've spent a lot of the last week playing with web site design, and would really appreciate any comments on the lay out of my web site - or for that matter if all the links are working correctly. I think they are, but there are an awful lot of them and it is possible that I've missed one or two. I've added a link to the Creative Commons Licensing site, and it's now on here as well :-) If you've been listening to the Terra Incognita Podiobook and you're enjoying it - let me know and rate it on the Terra Incognita page at Podiobooks. I'd really like to hear what listeners think of TI ;-) If you're enjoying TI, let your friends know - ask them to subscribe and help move the Podiobook onto, and up the Podiobooks.com Chart...

I've also been listening to the work of my fellow authors on Podiobooks.com, specifically J.C.Hutins' 7th Son Book 3 - Destruction, M Darusha Wehm's Beautiful Red, Mike Luoma's Vatican Assassin and Timothy Callahan's The Arwen (Season 1 & Season 2). I'd highly recommend them all as being well worth listening too.

And today, StarShip Sofa released Episode 59, about C.M.Kornbluth. Tony & Ciaran at The Sofa talk about a different science fiction author, film or magazine each week. Essentially the format is a brief bio of the author, or principle persons in the film or magazine, and from this they move into related fields - who the author worked with, their most well known books. StarShip Sofa is available from iTunes, or for download from the SSS web site, there is also a fairly active forum in which all things science fiction, and a few non-science fiction things are discussed - check it out ;-)

And finally... For the past few weeks, the TV has been carrying 'adverts', possibly better stated as 'requests' for World Vision Ireland. This page gives a far better idea of the work they do, than I could. The monthly sponsorship is €25 - four packets of cigarettes to make a difference to someone's life.

Cheers,

Gary