If you’ve been around here for just the past two weeks, even, you know that I’m all hopped up about the upcoming Kickstarter release of the 10th anniversary edition of my fantasy series, Saga of the God-Touched Mage. You can check out the Kickstarter Preview here: I’ve also put a video that displays the books […]

The proofs are here! The proofs are here! I can’t begin to say how excited I am that proofs for all four volumes of the Special, 10th Anniversary Edition of Saga of the God-Touched Mage have now officially landed at the Collins Condo. Oh. My. God. I videoed my experience with getting a first look […]

I’ve been working my butt off, thinking through a million things regarding the release of the 10th Anniversary Edition of Saga of the God-Touched Mage, which is a piece of work that holds a big place in my heart simply for the fact that it was my first major leap into this world of being […]

Among the plethora of great scenes in the movie A Fish called Wanda, has Kevin Kline’s Otto talking to Jamie Lee Curtis’s Wanda. Otto is a pseudo-intellectual hit man turned diamond thief who once worked for the CIA. Wanda is the considerably sharper femme fatale who doesn’t need saving. At one point, Wanda, frustrated with […]

A good friend is someone who isn’t afraid to tell you what you need to know. I’m thinking about this today because, for the past week, I’ve been working diligently preparing material to support my next Kickstarter, which will be a totally amazing 10th-anniversary edition of Saga of the God-Touched Mage. This is my (currently) […]

A bit ago, Jonathan Fesmire, who writes steampunk westerns set in a place he calls The Creedverse (because his main protagonist is a quite interesting guy named James “Bodacious” Creed), gave me an advanced copy of his new collection Guts & Gears: Tales of the Weird West. I’m glad he did. It’s a small volume […]

I had the opportunity to talk to several writers this past week, which is always great fun. As it does on occasion, the conversation turned to dealing with the wild disparity between the Critical Voice and the Creative Brain, which I’m naming that way because the Critical Voice can sometimes get mouthy and the Creative […]

Like with most things this past six months, I’ve been behind schedule in doing this little review. Luckily, I’ve been prompted by seeing several End-of-Year reviews posted by other friends who are writers. So here we are. Without getting into specific dollars and cents, it’s time to check in on how I’m doing on the […]

A couple years back now (because time does fly) Brigid gave me a stack of old back-issue SF magazines. I love these things. It’s always fun to read fiction from some time back. Some of it is dated, of course. In fact, a lot of it, really. Science Fiction moves on both culturally and, well, […]

Many of you know that we lost my dad earlier this year, and that the process of dealing with the aftereffects has taken a lot of my energy the past six months. Such is life in the modern age. With some luck that process is coming toward its end, though. And there’s been a little […]