It happened on the hate website, File 770 this weekend. Former Hugo Award Administrator John Lorentz stated “the rules were changed with the specific intention of making it harder for ‘those people’ to be on the ballot. That’s political.” This marks one of the first times we’ve seen a person who’s been associated with the […]
What Do You Do About The Haters And Losers?
I posted up some of the hate I receive regularly last night on social media, when a random person took to a wall and from that comment on actually spent the entire evening relentlessly attacking me. Another author friend of mine posed a question: “how do you deal with the 24-7 hate you get?” Jon […]
What Is #ComicsGate?
Most people who frequent here are familiar with the movement, but former D.C. Comics artist Mike S. Miller, who’s currently running the Lonestar IndieGoGo campaign, wrote a nice analysis about the movement for people who aren’t quite familiar with it: As the comic book world braces for its annual mecca to San Diego Comic Con, […]
Are You Ready For The Special Forces Of Steampunk?
Knights with guns! The #SummerOfSteampunk begins here. Today marks the release of my new novella, Knight Training. This book is for the fans, since i received so much feedback from everyone wanting to see more development of the character James Gentry, who makes his first appearance in my award winning novel, For Steam And Country. […]
My Post Mocking Feminism Goes Viral – Twitter Locks My Account
Twitter’s been on a warpath against conservatives lately, as I detailed in my piece for The Federalist about a month ago. They’re claiming they’re making all sorts of changes to “better the experience”, but the truth is, they’re attacking conservative thought. Last time, I was given no choice when I made the statement that transgenderism […]
The #ComicsGate Crowdfund Successes Keep Rolling
Honestly, it’s starting to look like we have our own little pocket industry here. While the books I’m talking about now aren’t making the $300-400k amount, they are making far more than most other first time comic kickstarters that I see launching. The most recent success story is Mike S. Miller’s Lonestar: Heart Of A […]
Blacklisting Didn’t Work, So They’re Trying To Harass Us Out Of The Industry
Ever since I came out of the closet with how I voted, it’s been one thing after another in an attempt to gatekeep me out of the industry. It started with a convention removing me from their speaker circuit as most readers are aware, with many of the same people from that convention then enacting […]
Space Force: The Comic
I’m out of time for blogging today, so I wanted to give a shout out to Chuck Dixon, Timothy Lim and Brett R. Smith for their new comic, Trump’s Space Force. It looks really fun and these guys have been working their tails off to get this ready, so it’s worth a blog post as […]
The Character James Gentry, Grief, And Growth
I had a great discussion with a fan the other day about the character of James in For Steam And Country. As a mild spoiler (have you not read the book yet and you’re here?) he loses his parents, and as we’re wrapped up in Zaira’s perspective, we don’t see much grief from him. He […]
The Best And Easiest Way To Maximize Your Indie Publishing Sales
We’ve seen how over the last year, the biggest successes seem to have come from teams of authors co-writing, as they can get their projects out slightly faster than others, and create these shared universes where the plot just keeps coming. They both bring in their fanbases, there’s a lot to binge read, and boom, […]
The #ComicsGate Success Is No Fluke – People Crave Good Comics
We’ve had a few different successes in comicsgate now that it’s actually becoming a full on subset of the industry, not just a couple of guys with flukes. This is very positive, and I hope we continue toward this trend. I’m personally cutting back my DC Comics purchases (which ranges from about ($12-20 per month […]
I Am Writing For You: A Guide To Treating Readers With Respect
This last week there’s been a barrage of authors out there who are taking shots at readers. We saw this a lot with the situation in the comics industry over the last year, where so many of the creators fought the fans when they’d produced a lot of politically driven narrative their fans didn’t like, […]
Authors Don’t Trick Your Readers – An Analysis of The Batman/Catwoman Wedding
DC Comics’ big event hype over the summer has been the Batman/Catwoman wedding. Now we all know how comics have worked the last couple decades, and we know by proxy that “nothing is forever” – and by forever, I mean lasts more than 2-3 years before it gets rebooted, redone, respun. How anyone can take […]
Last Night On YouTube
Yesterday we did an impromptu reading of the beginning of “Knight Training” which will be the novella sequel to For Steam And Country out July 18th. Edwin did a great job reading. We followed up with a discussion of my books and the comic industry so worth the watch! Make sure to grab For […]
An Open Letter To Kevin Roche Of Worldcon
Last night I had a dream, and it’s a dream that I want to see become reality. It’s one where divisiveness, hatefulness, and petty politics can be overcome by rationality, love, treating each other like humans. I dreamt that I was at some house party where Kevin Roche, the chairman of WorldCon, was attending with […]
LibertyCon Is The Undisputed Best Convention In The World
I spent the weekend at LibertyCon in Chattanooga TN, and I’ll do my best to tell most of the story in pictures, because that’s a lot more fun, but this convention had so much going on from dawn until next dawn (they certainly don’t stop at dusk) that it was incredible. Programing had me running […]
To Be Men Anthology
Last week an anthology dropped from Superversive Press which features a story by me, “Compassion” — which is a prequel story to a novel I’ll be coming out with later this year, Justified: Saga Of The NanoTemplar. The story is a lot of fun and features a STRONG MALE LEAD (finally) so you’ll want to check it out.
One America News – Tonight 5:25 EST + Captain Frugal Tonight 8:30 EST
When it rains it pours. I was invited to One America News tonight to be on Liz Wheeler’s program, Tipping Point. Make sure to tune in if your cable provider carriers the network, if not, they have a youtube channel here. And after that, I’ll be on Captain Frugal’s comic book related channel livestreaming and […]
Worldcon Protest Update: Standing Against Pedophilia In Sci-Fi
There’s been an epidemic within sci-fi over the last several decades. Walter Breen. Marion Zimmer Bradley. Samuel Delany. These and others were known to abuse children. In the light of Sony Pictures Actor Peter Fonda calling for the rape of an 11 year old boy on his social media, it’s clear the culture has gotten […]
Space Force: Old And Busted Legacy SF vs. New Hotness Indie SF
Sci-fi is about sense of wonder. It’s about exploration. It’s about seeking the unknown to better humanity. If you’re confused, it’s because you’ve been reading Hugo Award winning fiction for the last 20 years and their cohorts who have taken over the industry. This is a group of people ridden by mental disorders who have […]
NK Jemisin Libels me, calling me a Nazi
This is extremely shocking and defamatory. First off, I’ve never spoken with Jemisin in my life. I found out I was insta-blocked by her awhile back just because she uses auto blockers against other science fiction authors’ followers. I’ve submitted this case to Twitter Support, as I was suspended for saying “transgender is a mental […]
New Federalist Article On My Twitter Suspension
Part of why I’m not posting to social media the last week or so is because I am not thrilled with their censoring platforms where you can’t speak simple truths. Read my full article here.
The White Male Initiative For Worldcon 76
Recently, John Picacio raised enough money to send 50 deserving Mexicanx professionals and fans to Worldcon 76 happening in San Jose, California from August 16-20, 2018. Let’s replicate that success by opening the door for interested members of the white male community. Welcome to the White Male Initiative for Worldcon 76! You can participate in […]
The Biggest News Story You’ll Never Hear: Big Tech Strikes At Finances Of Political Opponents
As you know, I urged my fans and friends who are supporting this blog and my fiction work on a subscription basis to switch their pledges from Patreon to Freestartr because Patreon was removing right wing political commentators over their content. This weekend, Freestartr was shut down by Stripe, the collections company used to process […]