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Masks and Murder 2021 – A Round-up of Indie Mardi Gras Mysteries

Posted on February 15, 2021 by Cora

Our monthly round-ups of new speculative fiction and new crime fiction releases by indie authors are a perennially popular feature. Therefore, we now offer you a round-up of our favourite Mardi Gras mysteries, crime novels and thrillers by indie and … Continue reading →

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Happy New Year 2021

Posted on January 2, 2021 by Cora

First of all, a happy new year to everybody who reads my blog! May 2021 be better than 2020 and bring you health, happiness and success! If you want to know what I’ve been up to in 2020, here is … Continue reading →

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The Obligatory Christmas Post 2020

Posted on December 30, 2020 by Cora

Yes, I know that Christmas has been over for four days now, but I was pretty busy with a large translation job, so here is the somewhat belated obligatory 2020 Christmas post. In spite of the pandemic, our Christmas wasn’t … Continue reading →

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Masks and Murder 2020 – A Round-up of Indie Mardi Gras Mysteries

Posted on February 24, 2020 by Cora

Our monthly round-ups of new speculative fiction and new crime fiction releases by indie authors are a perennially popular feature. Therefore, we now offer you a round-up of our favourite Mardi Gras mysteries, crime novels and thrillers by indie and … Continue reading →

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Retro Review: “When the Bough Breaks” by Lewis Padgett a.k.a. Henry Kuttner and C.L. Moore

Posted on February 10, 2020 by Cora

“When the Bough Breaks” is a novelette by Lewis Padgett, one of the many pen names of Henry Kuttner and C.L. Moore, which was first published in the November 1944 issue of Astounding Science Fiction and is therefore eligible for … Continue reading →

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Happy New Year 2020

Posted on January 2, 2020 by Cora

First of all, a happy new year to everybody who reads my blog! May 2020 bring you health, happiness and success! Here in Germany, the new year is a little over a day old now and has been mainly cold … Continue reading →

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Christmas 2019

Posted on December 26, 2019 by Cora

I will share my thoughts on Star Wars and The Rise of Skywalker soon, but first here is the obligatory Christmas post for 2019. I spent the holidays with my parents, as usual. My Dad and I cut down the … Continue reading →

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Cora is elsewhere once again and shares a recipe

Posted on November 12, 2019 by Cora

Yes, I will eventually post another post here. And in fact, I am currently working on a longer post about the latest reiteration of the science fiction versus fantasy debate that has broken out in the genre. I also have … Continue reading →

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The Dublin Travel Travails Saga

Posted on August 16, 2019 by Cora

Those who follow me on Twitter may already have seen that I had the hardest time travelling to Dublin. I got up at 4 AM and my plane left Bremen at 6:20 AM. I was supposed to reach Dublin at … Continue reading →

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The Obligatory 2019 Birthday Post

Posted on April 21, 2019 by Cora

April 18 was my birthday, so this year’s birthday post is two days late, because the weekly link round-ups for the Speculative Fiction Showcase and the Indie Crime Scene as well as the review of the Star Trek Discovery season … Continue reading →

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