Marlene Hauser

Marlene Hauser

Blogs

These blogs are a chance to share with you more personally how I feel about things going on in my life and/or in the world at large.  Sometimes they are directly related to my books, but most often they are not.

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Ai-Da the Artist

Hi Everyone, In the course of the past year, I have met Ai-Da. Ai-Da? Ai-Da who? Ai-Da the robot, the humanoid, a machine that creates—an artist. She (if I can actually call her that) creates (if I...

The Big Pause

I’ve gone for a full-on, multi-lap, outdoors swim twice since lockdown easing, and both times it has felt brand new—as if I’d just discovered something I never knew before...

The Mystery of Inspiration

Hi Everyone, Inspiration. Where does it come from? I am often asked. Like many other authors, I don’t really have an answer. I am sure this is the case with most artists in whatever field they create...

The Perfect Destination

Now that we have reached Stage One in the gradual relaxation of Lockdown Rules in England, I have allowed my extended daydreaming to run at full tilt...

Roll Up your Sleeve, Roll up, Roll up

To take it or not? This is the question that has spun through the minds of some people I know from the minute development was deemed...

Packing the Past

My beautiful house, Summertown Villa, is now sold, and I am moving. As everyone who has moved knows—and who hasn’t? —this requires sorting, purging and packing...

A Numbers Game?

Yes. Happy New Year! 2021. No point saying that the trajectory assumed in 2020 (the Roaring ’20s) never saw the light of day, at least for now...

Eye to Eye

So the pandemic rages on, despite multiple vaccines just around the corner. Many of us are not bothered by wearing masks, washing hands...

Mine, Part One, Chapter One (continued)

It’s not my intention to serialize Mine, but perhaps just a wee bit more... because a few of you have asked. PART ONE Chapter One (continued)...