What's New?
(My complete GMD bio/commentary
is here).
Bibliography
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unpublished letters, and sometimes articles MacDonald wrote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.
