Author Archives: Henry Gee

About Henry Gee

Henry Gee is an author, editor and recovering palaeontologist, who lives in Cromer, Norfolk, England, with his family and numerous pets, inasmuch as which the contents of this blog and any comments therein do not reflect the opinions of anyone but myself, as they don't know where they've been.

Tsundoku III

Posted on 7 March 2014 by Henry Gee

As it’s National Book week all this week, and yesterday was World Book Day, this lunchtime saw me indulging my tsundoku habit at the Break charity shop in Cromer (well, that’s my excuse.) This is what I bought: Peoples and … Continue reading →

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Sits Vac

Posted on 6 March 2014 by Henry Gee

One or other of you might be interested to know that a well-known weekly professional science magazine beginning with N is seeking a locum evolution and ecology editor to cover paternity leave for a 6-7 month period starting this June. … Continue reading →

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The Maison De Girrafes Caption Competition #306

Posted on 5 March 2014 by Henry Gee

Lunchtime the bright spring sun blazed down so the dogs took me to the beach. This is what it looked like. Not bad for lunchtime, eh? But I digress.

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Authoration

Posted on 3 March 2014 by Henry Gee

Not having written any books lately about teenage vampires, schoolboy wizards, sadomasochism, cookery or gardening, the times I’ve been asked for advice about how to get a book published can be numbered on the fingers of one hand. (The times … Continue reading →

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The Accidental Audiobook

Posted on 28 February 2014 by Henry Gee

Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Hear Ye! I knew that the Shameless Plug was soon to come out as an audiobook.

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Squishy

Posted on 25 February 2014 by Henry Gee

When a colleague of Mrs Crox learned that Crox Minor (15) wanted to go to medical school and study to be a surgeon, the colleague recommended that Crox Minor read Brain Matters: Adventures of a Brain Surgeon. So she did, … Continue reading →

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Writing Spaces

Posted on 20 February 2014 by Henry Gee

At the beginning of his memoir Adolf Hitler: My Part In His Downfall, Spike Milligan wrote After Puckoon I swore I’d never write another book. This is it. I know, I know, I swore I wouldn’t, either.

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Apples for Sir Isaac

Posted on 18 February 2014 by Henry Gee

You might remember (either of you) that last summer I paid a visit to the old Norwich Fire Station, which was, back then, just about to be converted into the Sir Isaac Newton Sixth Form, a sixth-form college devoted to … Continue reading →

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Gut Feelings

Posted on 17 February 2014 by Henry Gee

Decisions, decisions. The job as a manuscript editor at Your Favourite Weekly Etcetera largely consists of making decisions – whether to consider a manuscript for publication, or to send it on its way elsewhere. Because we receive a very large … Continue reading →

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The Great War Remembered #4

Posted on 16 February 2014 by Henry Gee

“The Last Post, Confits-De-Canards, 1916″, by the Cromer Poultry Great War Re-Enactment Society.

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