Recently, at Our Best Friends...



"Hey Hannah," asked Maddie, rounding the corner. "I heard singing." She stopped, puzzled. "Who are your friends?"



"I am among the Moose," sang Hannah, in a low and tuneless dirge.
"I am among the Moose...
"There's no excuse, no truce...
"For Gander or for Goose...
"And you'll never, never, ever get loose...
"Once you're among the Moose."

"What are you doing?" asked Maddie. "It looks kinda weird."

"It's a performance piece," replied Hannah. "This isn't weird, this is art."


"But I don't get it," said Maddie. "And isn't there usually cheese at art openings?"


"Oh, foo," huffed Hannah, crestfallen. "No great artist is ever appreciated in her lifetime."

"That's okay," said Maddie, stepping forward and resting a paw on Hannah's shoulder. "Maybe I was just looking at things from the wrong angle."

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One of the best books I read (in manuscript) last year, Tim Lebbon's post-apocalyptic beer run Bar None, finally has a cover... and it is awesome.

Cover artist is Eric Fortune, and does that pint look frosty and refreshing, or what? Aside from the protagonist floating in it, of course.

Just makes me want to crack open that bottle of Olde GnarlyWine that's waiting in the 'fridge.

Not only that, but the book is going to be out right around the end of the month. Shipping Date: March 30, 2009.



And dig this jacket copy... guy that wrote this stuff must be a freakin' genius or something...

Six months have passed since the end of the world, leaving a handful of survivors holed up in a Welsh manor with little to do but survive. They've made the best of things, planting food, drinking their way through the cellar's wine and ale, and reminiscing about the way life used to be. But with supplies running thin, everything is about to change...

The arrival of a stranger named Michael sheds new light on their circumstances. If the survivors can reach Cornwall, a few days' journey south, they will find a safe haven, called Bar None, quite possibly the last bar on earth.

As they make their way across the Welsh countryside, the survivors will experience a world gone strange, where frightening beings fly high overhead, where flora and fauna press in to fill the void left by the fall of man, and, in the wreckage of civilization, where less fortunate survivors, twisted by plagues, hunger, and fear, stalk human prey.

From Tim Lebbon, author of Berserk, Dusk, and Dawn comes Bar None, a novel of chilling suspense, apocalyptic beauty, and fine ales.

Trade Paperback 978-1-59780-097-6
240 Pages $13.95

So what are you waiting for? Go order it already!