Hi there. Just another quick post to let you know that I haven’t given up or stopped. The contract work I took on keeps getting extended. It was supposed to finish mid-2022, and is now running through to the end of March 2023. I’ve been very clear though that I can’t keep pushing on with…
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Just a quick update
There aren’t many readers checking in at the moment, but for those who are: I haven’t given up. I’m inundated with work as part of a short-term contract I’ve agreed to. It has another 3 months to run. However, the pay is good enough that I’ll be able to take time away from work for…
Just a quick update
Okay. So, I want to let the (few) readers here that I haven’t given up. I’ve been offered a 6 month contract, and that’s suddenly eating most of my time. I’m hoping that the contract work settles down to a point where I can at least be posting weekly. That should be viable, but I…
COVID finally caught up with us
And hopefully that’s it for the endless round of winter bugs. Finally, after a couple years of avoiding it, COVID caught up with everyone in the house. It really has been insane this winter (Southern Hemisphere). I’m hoping that the move into summer will reduce the number of preschool bugs rattling through the house. It…
Back posting
It’s been awhile since I last posted any story updates. It’s just the usual explanation. I took a break, intending it to be just a week or so, and then preschool bugs ran rampant through the house. I think we had something like four weeks in which at least one person in the house was…
Pausing a moment
I’m nearing the final chapters of A Charm for the Nameless Child. I’m going to take a moment to pause, do a bit of revising and then continue. I’m finding that posting this book is involving quite a bit of editing and rewriting. In some places I’ve had to rewrite (or write) whole passages and…
Out of Copyright / Out of Mind – Some Poetry
FULL AUDIO https://hobgoodfellowe.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/OOC-Some-fantasy-poetry.mp3 It seems that a question that frequently comes up is: can anyone recommend some good pre-Tolkien fantasy? When this question arises, the usual suspects are then wheeled out. Eddison’s The Worm Ouroboros, or anything by Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Mervyn Peake or Lord Dunsany. Usually Poul Anderson, Hope Mirrlees, Fritz Leiber and…
Fever dreams
Hi everyone. Just letting you know that the household has been struck down by another bug brought back from preschool. This one was pretty bad. I was laid out with a fever for a couple days, and I’m only just recovering now. Even then, I’m still a bit symptomatic. The COVID tests kept coming up…
Gastro this time
Just letting everyone know that I’ve been struck down by gastro. It really does seem to be an endless merry-go-round of childhood bugs. I’ve had food poisoning before, but this has to be the worst I’ve ever experienced. I even ended up in hospital (just for a few hours) getting checked and having my fluids…
A Charm for the Nameless Child #74
They talked for a while, bit not about anything in particular. What to cook for dinner from their meagre supplies. Whether the path they were on might traverse the mountains, or whether it might end abruptly, and what to do in either case. As the darkness flowed down over the mountains, and crept across the…