Author: Suzanne Conboy-Hill

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Poetry is weird & quite possibly illegal

Suzanne Conboy-Hill

For the last couple of months, I’ve been immersed in the peculiar world of poetry in order to produce something passable for my OU course. Today, the product of my bemused labours went off to the university for judgment and the long wait for a grade begins. Actually, anything above ‘WTF is that!’ will suffice. I did the required 40 lines; I put my name on the paper; I didn’t take the mick. That’s a pass, surely? So did I learn anything? Well, for a start, I found that poetry describes itself in terms of both feet and meters, thereby … Continue reading Poetry is weird & quite possibly illegal

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Cathryn Grant’s ‘Demise of the Soccer Moms’

Suzanne Conboy-Hill

In music, I have eclectic tastes. Just check out my iPod where Nine Inch Nails share space with Shania Twain, Black Rebel Motor Cycle Club, Vampire Weekend, and a bunch of one-offs like Mungo Jerry (In the Summertime), Eric Clapton (Autumn Leaves), and Smoke Fairies (Strange Moon Rising). So why am I so picky about my reading? A die-hard SF consumer (no black hole too deep), I sweep on by past anything that smacks of the suburban, contemporary, or frankly, wimminy. Well, I just learned my lesson, and via an indie author, at that. Cathryn Grant’s Demise of the Soccer Moms … Continue reading Cathryn Grant’s ‘Demise of the Soccer Moms’

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Indie Authors’ page – new

Suzanne Conboy-Hill

This could just possibly be the daftest idea I ever had. I’ve opened a page where I will list indie publications as I hear of them. Mostly, I suspect, written by blog- and twitter-mates, but of course, the floodgates may be creaking on their hinges as I prepare this post. I don’t intend to review or even read everything that’s listed, although I’m starting off with Cathryn Grant’s Demise of the Soccer Moms which I have reviewed (just waiting for Cathryn’s say so about using the cover image). But I’ll be ensuring nothing offensive – to me, as this is … Continue reading Indie Authors’ page – new

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All change to the decor

Suzanne Conboy-Hill

This, dear blog-mates, is Elegant Grunge. So far, I’ve found one unexpected thing on the page (my first post, which was not too illuminating), and not much missing. But then, I’m usually looking at it from inside the shop, not outside, so if there’s a gizmo you like to use and it’s disappeared, please let me know and I will do what I can to nail the little blighter back in place. Continue reading All change to the decor

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I need a change of scenery

Suzanne Conboy-Hill

I got widgets, I got columns, I know where my stuff is; but I need a change, and every time I pitch in with a preview, I get cold feet and stay where I am. Last week, I found a WordPress appearance that I liked, hit preview, and went off it because it wasn’t yellow enough. If it had been yellow enough, it would have been exactly like the site I first saw it on and that would have been a little too sycophantic. Well no, not ‘a little too’ just ‘sycophantic’ full stop. So, blog-mates, what do you recommend? … Continue reading I need a change of scenery

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‘Moonrise’

Suzanne Conboy-Hill

  Apparently it’s Blue Monday today – lousy weather, new year resolutions unresolved, and xmas chocolates out of the box and onto the bum. Not here though. Just had ‘Moonrise‘ delivered to my inbox, oh yes!   Bit of a hoot, this one; rather different from ‘Promotion’ but not unlike ‘Rory’s Tie’. Looking at these, I worry about what a psychologist might make of me. Oh, I am a psychologist.. Continue reading ‘Moonrise’

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Places in Second Life (via Beyond Distance Research Alliance Blog)

Suzanne Conboy-Hill

A year or so ago, exploring Second Life for a counter balance to the fluff and shopping I’d mostly found up to then, I came across a university Sim where undergraduates could explore biological processes. Transporting myself into a giant cell, I had to figure out the sequence of Krebs Cycle in order to get out again. Of course I could have cheated and teleported back to the beach bar I’d just left but I ask you, would you forget that essential process if you had physically worked your way through it from the inside? I doubt it. That’s what … Continue reading Places in Second Life (via Beyond Distance Research Alliance Blog)

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Some fact with your fiction

Suzanne Conboy-Hill

I used to think creativity and imagination had nothing to do with science until I heard that a significant number of NASA scientists had developed their interests through reading and watching science fiction. While Gene Roddenberry was boldly going, courtesy of fantastic warp drive technology, these chaps were figuring out how to build it. So now we have scanners Dr McCoy would find handy, information tablets that outclass the gizmos a red shirt would offer to the Captain for signature, and communication devices that can access the world, not just one contact point. There’s probably an app in development for … Continue reading Some fact with your fiction

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