by admin | Oct 24, 2020 | Books, publishing, Uncategorized, Writing
Recently I got a mediocre review of my pulp sword and sorcery book Broken Crossroads. In and of itself, that’s fine. I’ve survived worse, everyone is entitled to their opinion, and mediocre is better than scathing, so I’m not all that broken up. But what did concern...
by admin | Nov 5, 2019 | Books, Writing
Recently I have noticed theme among reviews of my books. A number of recent reviewers gave them 3 to maybe a grudging 4 stars and called them things like entertaining, quick, fun, a pleasant time filler, but dinged them for not really “delving deeper” into things. And...
by admin | Jul 16, 2019 | Books, Tropes, Writing
I’ll be honest, I didn’t even known this trope had a name until recently, when reading through reviews, both of my own books and of others in the Self Published Fantasy Blog Off. It refers to the fairly common situation in fiction where the protagonist and love...
by admin | Feb 6, 2019 | Books, EMS, Society, Writing
This past year I entered my debut urban fantasy/self-indulgent EMS novel into the Self Published Fantasy Blog Off. It’s done better than I had expected, making it to the final round against some pretty good books. The contest is still running, but the finals are an...
by admin | Oct 31, 2018 | Books, S/F, Writing
It’s a trope we all know. It’s been used by some of the most beloved authors in some of the best known works, the foundational works of fantasy and science fiction. But I don’t like it. OK, anything can work if it’s done reeeaaaally well. But if you want to pull off a...
by admin | Sep 29, 2018 | Books, Movies, S/F, Society
Recently, I saw one of the Avengers movies on TV, and started thinking about all the Marvel Universe movies, and kept coming back to the Big Question. No not “Is there a god?” or “What is the meaning of life?” or even “What the fuck happened to bring about the 2016...
