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 | Oct 28, 2017 | American dream, Books, Doomsday, End of the World as we know it, History, Mr Sunshine, politics, publishing
So, this happened. For those of you too lazy to click the link, I’ll provide some background. The s/f cartoon Rick and Morty made a craving for McDonald’s discontinued Szechuan Dipping Sauce into a thing. It was a joke on the show, and as happens so often in geek...
by admin | May 18, 2017 | Books, publishing, Writing
Last month I talked about what makes a great hero. This month I decided to look at the other side of the coin. What makes a really memorable villain? If the hero’s job is to give you somebody to root for, to invest in, then the villains job is to provide the...
by admin | Apr 19, 2017 | publishing, Writing
What makes an effective hero? You know what, that word is too loaded. What makes an effective protagonist? Some people will insist that the protagonist be likable. I don’t think that’s really true. We have a stable full of what used to be called anti heroes running...
by admin | Jan 25, 2017 | Books, publishing, Writing
Just Wing That Mother I don’t plan my novels. Allegedly, one is supposed to. There are all these things like outlines and three-act structure and character arcs and so on. If you want to waste tons of free time, you can go to any writers’ forum online and read all the...
by admin | Oct 19, 2016 | Amazon, Books, e-books, publishing, Writing
Escapology is a vivid, unique and engrossing work of dystopian cyberpunk. In a future where most of the lands we know have sunk, where survivors eke out an existence on “land ships’ of floating islands, or the overcrowded, unforgiving city on the single...
