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Submitted by PMAdmin on June 21, 2009 - 12:01.We're updating and upgrading the site, so please expect it to be changing its graphics frequently in coming days as we sort out the new "look and feel."
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"Shave him, and he'd be the King!"
Submitted by petermorwood on September 10, 2008 - 09:37.I've always been fond of The Prisoner of Zenda movies and I've often wondered about the claim (current in Wikipedia, among other places) that the 1952 colour version was a shot-for-shot remake of the 1937 black-and-white original.
To me, shot-for-shot means "as nearly exact a copy as possible", and I'm now able to say that though the 1952 is very, very close in most respects, it's not shot-for-shot, and most emphatically not line-for-line. There are a lot more than "slight variations" between them, especially in dialogue.
Click "read more" for the rest of the article and the links to the screenplays.
Available at last: Clan Wars 1: GREYLADY
Submitted by PMAdmin on March 22, 2007 - 21:09.
Back in print after more than a decade, one of the hardest-to-find Morwood novels in a new edition, direct from the author!
Warfare has many rules. This is one:
Hire soldiers stronger than your enemy.
Do not hire soldiers stronger than yourself.
It makes getting rid of them...
Difficult.
That was how the Horse Lords came to Alba, and how they came to rule it. That was how Bayrd ar'Talvlyn rose from a mere captain to become lord of his own clan. That was how the Art Magic became a part of life and death, and how the seeds were sown for many things that happened in the years to follow.
The chronicles written later portrayed what happened in a better light. They made no mention of how an entire country was stolen from its rightful owners, or how it was held by the sword and the spear and the iron fist.
Most especially, they said nothing of why a haughty people who disdained the Art Magic began to use it like any other weapon. When those chronicles recorded what they called history, they made no mention of invasion, or of sorcery, or of the Clan Wars that followed.
This is what really happened...
This edition of Greylady is a UK-format "royal" size trade paperback. A hardcover edition in a slightly different size (and a trade paperback in US size) will be made available in the next few days. The text uses UK spellings, as in the original UK editions.
A preview of the initial pages of Greylady is available here.
You can also download an e-book version
(in non-locked / -DRM'd .PDF format: other formats to follow).
Click here to download the book directly from Lulu.com:
UKP £2.49
(Uncheck the "print book" box and continue with the order)
Or click here to use PayPal,
which is slightly more convenient for the writer
(and so you get a small price break):
via PayPal, the e-book costs only UKP £1.99.
On purchase you will immediately be emailed the book in the same format as from Lulu via our download manager, e-Junkie.
Tactical errors in advertising
Submitted by petermorwood on December 17, 2007 - 16:22.Advertising vocabularies differ depending on what's being sold. A sports car doesn't get the same write-up as a family saloon, and a laptop computer isn't described in the same high-tech language as an iPod. But there are some words which have crossed genres, and now seem to be applied with blind enthusiasm in the most unlikely places.
My current favourite is tactical.
You'll find it defined on Answers.com in various ways, but they quote the current U.S. Military Dictionary, which for this LJ entry seems more appropriate than most.
tactical, adj.Designed or implemented so as to gain a temporary limited advantage: short-range.
1. of, relating to, or constituting actions carefully planned to gain a specific military end.
2. (of bombing or weapons) done or for use in immediate support of military or naval operations. Often contrasted with strategic.
This once-military-only term has since moved, via business, into more-or-less everyday use, but it's slipped its leash and like an unruly dog, is leaving traces of its passage in places where it shouldn't be allowed to go. (Mind your feet.)
I just wanted two coats of emulsion on the ceiling...
Submitted by petermorwood on December 14, 2007 - 19:19....not a recreation of the Sistine Chapel!
But try telling that to Heston Blumenthal.
Diane and I recorded last week's Further Adventures in Search of Perfection - the one about chili con carne -- and watched it the other night with increasing amazement as he piled on layer after layer of daft, pointless elaboration.
The man hasn't a clue about how to cook with chilis, either: presented with something that used them - Oh look, they're in the name of the dish and everything! - he instantly reverted to Macho Man and went for the hottest he could find (or at least with the funniest name - Devil's Penis.) Someone should have let him try a Jolokia without telling him how hot it is; now that would have been really funny.
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Available at last: Clan Wars 2: WIDOWMAKER
Submitted by PMAdmin on March 28, 2007 - 21:01.
Back in print after more than a decade, one of the hardest-to-find Morwood novels in a new edition, direct from the author!
Warfare has many rules. This is one:
Know your enemies well.
Know your allies better.
Know most of all when an alliance is about to end.
Avoid surprises.
Taking possession of a land is not like taking possession of a house. There are other claimants. Some are the previous owners, and some are countrymen who feel they have been cheated. All of them have swords. It is wise to learn which ones will sit down and talk, which ones trust only in steel, and which, most dangerous of all, employ the Art Magic.
Seven years after The Landing, Alba remains divided between invaders and invaded. This is how Bayrd Talvalin lost and gained a friend, and went to war beside an enemy, and how Kalarr cu Ruruc the sorcerer stretched out his hand to take back everything his people had lost.
This is the time of the Clan Wars.
This is how it really was...
This edition of Widowmaker is a UK-format "royal" size trade paperback. A hardcover edition in a slightly different size (and a trade paperback in US size) will be made available in the next few days. The text uses UK spellings, as in the original UK editions.
A preview of the initial pages of Widowmaker is available here.
You can also download an e-book version
(in non-locked / -DRM'd .PDF format: other formats to follow).
Click here to download the book directly from Lulu.com:
UKP £2.49
(Uncheck the "print book" box and continue with the order)
Or click here to use PayPal,
which is slightly more convenient for the writer
(and so you get a small price break):
via PayPal, the e-book costs only UKP £1.99.
On purchase you will immediately be emailed the book in the same format as from Lulu via our download manager, e-Junkie.
A new weblog...
Submitted by PMAdmin on January 15, 2007 - 12:43.This space will shortly host PM's new weblog: his present journal at LiveJournal.com will become its mirror.
Stay tuned...
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