Comments on: # http://hitchcock-blonde.com/2008/05/12/fantasy/ Tue, 02 Dec 2008 04:54:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: thehitchcockblonde http://hitchcock-blonde.com/2008/05/12/fantasy/#comment-253 thehitchcockblonde Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:01:52 +0000 http://hitchcockblondeblog.wordpress.com/?p=252#comment-253 Darren, baby, <em>yeah</em>. Send me books. Lots of books. With ponies and dwarves and ice-strewn tundra. I'll bathe naked in them. Darren, baby, yeah. Send me books. Lots of books. With ponies and dwarves and ice-strewn tundra. I’ll bathe naked in them.

]]> By: Darren T http://hitchcock-blonde.com/2008/05/12/fantasy/#comment-252 Darren T Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:25:50 +0000 http://hitchcockblondeblog.wordpress.com/?p=252#comment-252 Great news! J.V. Jones is planning five, maybe six books in the 'Sword of Shadows' series, so there's plenty more top-notch fantasy fare to follow... :) Drop us a line if you'd like to see any more of our titles, yeah? Orbit Books UK Great news! J.V. Jones is planning five, maybe six books in the ‘Sword of Shadows’ series, so there’s plenty more top-notch fantasy fare to follow… :)

Drop us a line if you’d like to see any more of our titles, yeah?

Orbit Books UK

]]> By: Wess http://hitchcock-blonde.com/2008/05/12/fantasy/#comment-196 Wess Tue, 13 May 2008 11:04:09 +0000 http://hitchcockblondeblog.wordpress.com/?p=252#comment-196 And the family dog makes an excellent warhorse, albeit a slightly erratic and irritable one when saddled with an apron and frogmarched into battle on the shadowy Plains of Minofarg round the back of the settee. And the family dog makes an excellent warhorse, albeit a slightly erratic and irritable one when saddled with an apron and frogmarched into battle on the shadowy Plains of Minofarg round the back of the settee.

]]> By: thehitchcockblonde http://hitchcock-blonde.com/2008/05/12/fantasy/#comment-195 thehitchcockblonde Tue, 13 May 2008 09:13:44 +0000 http://hitchcockblondeblog.wordpress.com/?p=252#comment-195 Oh, Wess. That bought a little tear to my eye. Tights worn on your head to represent warrior braids are also an excellent prop. Oh, Wess. That bought a little tear to my eye. Tights worn on your head to represent warrior braids are also an excellent prop.

]]> By: Wess http://hitchcock-blonde.com/2008/05/12/fantasy/#comment-194 Wess Tue, 13 May 2008 08:45:52 +0000 http://hitchcockblondeblog.wordpress.com/?p=252#comment-194 Guilty pleasures. '99 Red Balloons', custard creams, Derek and Clive. They're good for the soul; cleansing, reaffirming. Sword and Sorcery novels belong on children's bookshelves but then what is so amiss with dipping back into childhood now and again? You can don your bedsheet cloak of invisibility and stealthily creep about the house in search of the Ancient Colander Helmet of Vagbas-Murh, and still be back in front of the Oracle of Flimbimbimbam in time for the latest adventures of the marauding carnivorous monster terrorising the enchanted wood. Or 'The Rupert Bear Show', as earthlings call it. Guilty pleasures. ‘99 Red Balloons’, custard creams, Derek and Clive. They’re good for the soul; cleansing, reaffirming. Sword and Sorcery novels belong on children’s bookshelves but then what is so amiss with dipping back into childhood now and again? You can don your bedsheet cloak of invisibility and stealthily creep about the house in search of the Ancient Colander Helmet of Vagbas-Murh, and still be back in front of the Oracle of Flimbimbimbam in time for the latest adventures of the marauding carnivorous monster terrorising the enchanted wood.

Or ‘The Rupert Bear Show’, as earthlings call it.

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