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Posted on September 11, 2020 by kat_richardson

I’m Pleased

I have signed a publishing contract. First in 4 years. I’m not able to give details yet—and it’s not something major by most standards—but it’s still forward progress and something I’ve been trying to get done for a while. So, yes, I’m pleased.

Mar 18, 2021

Baseball in EArly Los Angeles I’ve been doing a little reaserch into what people did for fun in the Los Angeles area during the 1920s and ’30s. And it seems that Angelinos were wild about baseball! Who knew? From the early 1900s through the 1930s, Los Angeles had as many as 5 baseball fields operating […]

Jan 26, 2021

At the moment, I’m doing research into the progress of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in the US, specifically in the Los Angeles California area, for background in a novel that’s set in the 1930s. If you were an adult in the 30s, you had probably lived through the infamous “Spanish” flu, And let me […]

Jan 12, 2021

Locked Out of Your Stuff So, there’s an article at the New York Times about Bitcoin billionaires losing access to their accounts because they’ve forgotten their passwords and the bitch of it is that the structure of Bitcoin means they can’t just reset the password, so unless they magically remember, these poor suckers are out, […]

Dec 27, 2020

I found it in a virtual drawer I was going through a bunch of story files, looking for a prompt to get my brain back into writing-mode after a lot of revising, editing, and generally falling off the writer-horse, and I found this fragment, that I apparently started January 19, 2017, at 22:54: My mother […]

Dec 24, 2020

Easy Sausage Rolls for americans, because we’ve been watching the Great British Baking Show and know we’d be sent home on the first day, but we still want little pastry packets of meaty goodness! Ok, so… it’s that time of year and I’m baking. This particular year I couldn’t get the British-style sausages I usually […]