What's New?
(My complete GMD bio/commentary
is here).
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12-07-11 I finally got around to getting out Father Brown Leftovers. It's now available in epub version only at Barnes & Nobles for $1.99 This is an e-book that contains the three stories which never appeared in the original Father Brown volumes. They were published in magazines instead. Those stories are THE VAMPIRE OF THE VILLAGE, THE MASK OF MIDAS, and FATHER BROWN AND THE DONNINGTON AFFAIR. You can read more about it at the B&N web page for the book:
Click here for Father Brown Leftovers at B&N in epub (Nook, Sony, Kobo etc.) format
09-09-11 I now have both Phantastes and Lilith available absolutely free in mobi format for Kindle. I'll have epub versions out soon as well. I think you'll find these far superior to anything else on the web. The formatting is exactly like a book with proper line spaces and indents as well as things like italics, em dashes, page breaks before chapters and so on, and both an internal and external TOC (hyper-linked table of contents). All footnotes are also hyper-linked so you can click straight to them and then simply hit the back button to go back to where you were. Phantastes also has all the illustrations that Arthur Hughes did. Since I have a publishing company now, you'll find sample excerpts at the end to various other books I'm putting out too. I figure it's good advertising for me, and you get free books, so we both win. I'll be making other books available by MacDonald over the coming weeks and months too, so check back from time to time.
Click here for Lilith in mobi (Kindle) format
Click here for Phantastes in mobi (Kindle) format
09-08-11 My novella, The Cistaphasmatis, on Horatio Press is now for sale as a digital download (mobi format for Kindle but epub is coming soon too) for only a dollar:
It's now available
at the following Amazon locations in Kindle (mobi) format:
USA
UK
Germany
This is a novella I wrote some months ago
of around 15,000 words. It's been slightly reworked recently. The story was geared toward
a younger crowd, but I hope
adults of all ages will enjoy it too even if the wordplay is somewhat
pedestrian. I wouldn't normally endorse self-publishing, but
since this is merely a short story, I thought I'd experiment
with it in that regard. Actually, I had sold it to a Canadian
publisher earlier in the year. However, they assigned me an
editor from Malta who barely knew the English language and that
I'm sure was hired sight unseen. After viewing the mess she had
made of my story, I asked to be let out of the contract.
Book Blurb: The Cistaphasmatis is about a young man from
Nantucket named Clifford Keene who feels compelled to try and
contact his deceased girlfriend on the other side of death's
door using an age old mirror gazing technique in a home-built
viewing chamber called a cistaphasmatis. About this time, he
also finds himself becoming quick friends with the sexton at the
graveyard his girlfriend is buried at, a retired Episcopal
Priest named Bud Buchanan. Clifford soon finds that this priest
has knowledge of the way the world works that's rather unique
among men as Bud tries to keep Cliff from getting in over his
head in "the void."
You can read excerpts on my blog.
07-05-11 Someone has posted the film--The Lost Patrol--in its entirety on YouTube. The film is based on a book by Philip MacDonald called Patrol. I placed a link to it on the page here called "Children." I'll also post it here.
11-25-10 David Baldwin has been making audio recordings of MacDonald's Unspoken Sermons for some time now and hopes to do them all eventually. He has a YouTube Channel where you can listen to them for free. He's also made outlines and annotations of the sermons as he's been going along. I'm happy to host them here on a special page I've made for Unspoken Sermons.
11-25-09 I started blogging again recently. There will only be occasional articles there. How anyone finds time to blog everyday I'll never know.
10-06-09 Dale Slusser's book, In the Near Loss Of Everything, is now shipping. The work covers the life of George MacDonald's son, Ronald MacDonald, focusing on his time spent in America as a schoolmaster and the tragic death of his first wife. No stone unturned on this one.
05-31-09 You may have noticed that I don't have a links section at this site. There are a couple of reasons for this. There aren't many sites about MacDonald out there for one, and of the few there are, many are terribly maintained with dead links everywhere. I will recommend one site however. That is Barbara Amell's Wingfold. Actually it's not so much a website as a couple of web pages giving information about her Wingfold quarterly publication, a small magazine-like format that covers all things MacDonald four times per year. You'll find several items in it about MacDonald that you won't find in any book such as copies of sermons he gave, unpublished letters, and sometimes articles MacDonald wrote for newspapers and magazines that have been long forgotten. Highly recommended!
05-20-2009 I've finally finished my film on George MacDonald. You can watch it at YouTube in it's entirety. Just click on this link, and it will take you to my YouTube playlist for the movie which is split into eight parts because YouTube restricts movies to no more than ten minutes each. The film is 51-minutes in length. If you'd like a free DVD of it, just drop me a note with your address, and ask for it. There's no cost, and I won't share your address with anyone else.
03-20-2009 I have finally gotten around to putting together a CD of all four of the only known audio recordings by G.K. Chesterton. You can buy it now here at CDBaby, and it should be available at most online retailers within another week or so.
12-30-2008 This has nothing to do with the GMD website particularly, but I wanted to make you aware that I've put up some web pages about manuscript preparation for publisher submissions. There's precious little info on the internet that includes any real-life samples so you can actually see what the pages should look like when properly formatted. The examples used all come from my book on MacDonald. I also go over cover letters.
12-12-2008 I've finally got around to revising the section on GMD's son, Ronald (Children link), after receiving some new information from Dale Slusser in the fall. Dale has a biography on Ronald MacDonald which hopefully will start printing in the coming year from Zossima Press. Much of the information we've seen about Ronald so far seems to have been inaccurate in several details. I don't believe the book has a title yet, but I'll post the details here when I know. Dale has also uncovered a few very nice photos of Ronald taken in the USA where he taught school for several years.
Also, the Brander Library in Huntly, Aberdeenshire now has possession of several original MS by GMD. They've placed a few pages at random here and there online that you can view. These were mostly written in GMD's own hand. The George MacDonald Collection.
9-26-2008 I just wanted to leave a link here to Patrick Maiwald's new book on George MacDonald: The Journey in George MacDonald's Fantastic Fiction. It's put out by a German Publisher but is written in English. Whereas I devoted most of my book on Lilith and Phantastes, Pat also writes about several of MacDonald's shorter fairytales that have been often neglected by other commentators. I like this book quite a bit.
6-27-2008 Fixed a few grammatical problems on some pages today. Also added a link on the C.S. Lewis page to a nice website concerning his ancestry.
2-07-2008 Reviews for my book on GMD are finally starting to come out. A couple of the reviews are posted here.
1-08-2008 I have a regular YouTube Channel now. This isn't really a GMD channel, although there no doubt will be more videos about him and his teachings in the future. The latest video was added yesterday on the very touchy subject of fundamentalism. It's a 2-part video. Feel free to leave a comment at YouTube if you're a member, but please watch both parts before you do.