I’ve mentioned before the traffic differentials depending on what I talk about, and how smart marketing people would focus on what their audience wants, hone that, and keep it going as to not get them to tune out. But it’s Opening Week and y’all are going to have to deal with baseball talk from me. […]
The Trad Pub Mindset On Christianity
I don’t follow many publishers or literary agents. For the most part, I’ve avoided them as I’ve found that they’re in a lockstep mentality both in the ways that business is conducted and in their views of culture. The cultural establishment’s entire mantra these days has become “don’t rock the boat”, while at the same […]
RIP Pizza Party Ben
I spammed Twitter for like an hour and lost about a dozen followers for being so annoying about this last Friday. But on that day, March 31, 2017, one that will live in infamy forever, worse than any tragedy that has ever occurred before in mankind, Twitter banned @PizzaPartyBen. It’s been like 5 days now, […]
Star Realms: Rescue Run Nominated for Alliance Award!
Wow! Big thank you for all of the Star Realms readers who voted for the book to be nominated. This means a lot to me as a Christian and as a science fiction writer to be considered some of the top SF of the last year. I’ll also be in attendance at the Realm Makers […]
Happy Book Day To Two Great Friends – Griffin Barber & Gabrielle Harbowy!
I often have friends releasing books, but very rarely two on the same day, so this is a special occasion. 1636: Mission to the Mughals https://www.amazon.com/1636-Mission-Mughals-Ring-Fire-ebook/dp/B06XHRHZ3K/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1491337035&sr=8-1&keywords=griffin+barber First up is Griffin Barber, a great friend of mine for a long time and incredible person with a deep perspective and a heart of gold. I’ve had the […]
When Hugo Insane
So much is happening today. I had a planned piece that I’m going to post tomorrow instead, as there’s just been too much sci-fi news to keep up with. Even posting my thoughts on the Hugos has already been scooped by Declan Finn, so I’m going to focus on something that I haven’t seen talked about: […]
So, I Wrote A Blog For Castalia House…
Which you can read here. I also made sure my most ardent supporters are aware of it. You think they’ll read with open minds to further the betterment of culture and the discourse on such?
GeekChats: Running A Successful Kickstarter with Author Robert Kroese
Robert Kroese has run eight successful kickstarters for his books — something very few authors can say they’ve done. It’s hard enough to get kickstarters funded, especially in the novel writing field. Robert and I will talk the strategies and secrets he uses, along with his current Saga of the Iron Dragon project, and probably […]
The Last Crusade: Should You “Turn The Other Cheek”?
Churchians, non-believers and atheists love to use out of context and misapplied Bible verses to tell Christians how they should Christian better. It’s a pastime for these people to get a little smug smirk and act like they understand the teachings of Jesus Christ better than you, when they don’t acknowledge him as Lord and […]
Marvel Starting To Get The Picture
In a little more than a week after Bleeding Cool went FAKE NEWS on me and wrote a hit piece on an indie author in defense of a giant evil megacorporation, ignoring my legitimate concerns about current editorial having destroyed the Marvel Comics brand by not allowing any normal people to actually write their stories, […]
Discovering The Valiant: Bloodshot vol. 1 Review
Bloodshot vol. 1 And here I thought Harbinger was dark. This is probably the darkest Valiant comic I’ve read. What a concept. Bloodshot is a military weapon of a man filled with nanobots that repair him and give him superpowers. He gets beat to a pulp more than Wolverine. The military or secret ops or […]
Book Blast: The I’m Busy Writing Like A Mad Man Edition
Reviewing my new chapters of my forthcoming steampunk novel, For Steam And Country before getting it back to my editor for his work. Then I’ve outlined a new short piece for an anthology that I submitted to, then I wrote a 2,000 word outline for a potential comic series I’d like to develop, and then […]
Last Day To Vote Star Realms For Alliance Award!
This is the last day to vote and I know many of you have already (thank you!). If you have, share this post. Put in Star Realms: Rescue Run by Jon Del Arroz and let’s get this awesome vote nominated. http://realmmakers.net/awards/the-alliance-award/ It does say confirm purchase on there, but there is no purchase required, just […]
If You Ever Remotely Thought FAKE NEWS Wasn’t A Conspiracy…
A simple duckduckgo search reveals something pretty ridiculous. All of these news agencies — or we should start calling them what they are, blogs — with the same headline, same content, which is about the most pointless content that anyone ever could invent (they literally have that much nothing on this guy that this is their […]
Why Would Anyone Pay For FAKE NEWS?
The answer is: less and less people will. 50% off their price is pretty desperate. But, desperate times when your Times can only get 28 retweets. I’m not a king of Twitter by any means, took me a long time to figure out what it was and how to use it, but I had a […]
Signing @ Colossus Con – Saturday, April 8th in Pleasanton, CA
I’ll be setting up a table signing copies of Star Realms: Rescue Run for anyone who wants to come by (will have copies available for sale, as well as some of the last of the stock of the graphic novel of my former web-comic, Flying Sparks, which features art by Dynamite Artist Jethro Morales of […]
The Last Crusade: Christian Artists Who Don’t Suck
Whenever I talk about artist blackballing in the entertainment industry, almost invariably the first argument I come across is “well there aren’t any…” or “there are a low percentage of…” leading to believe that it’s just too hard to find good artists who aren’t insane and/or profess to be Christian. That is a lie that […]
Discovering the Valiant: X-O Manowar (2012) Vol. 2 and 3
Reviewing these together but as one post. Great comic. I think the #PulpRevolution should pick up volumes 1-3 of this immediately as a primer of “how it should be done.” X-O Manowar (2012) Vol. 2 This picks up right where the first volume left off, with a potential alien invasion from the Vine looming, their […]
Discovering The Valiant: Shadowman Vol. 2-3
Last night I followed up on my reading of Shadowman Vol 1 with a volume 2 and 3 read. Though I’m going to condense into one post, though will review separately. Shadowman Volume 2 consists of issues #5-9 which continue the plotline of Darque trying to get back to the regular world. He’s hooked up […]
Bizarre and Deranged Behavior
Senator Chuck Schumer, the senate minority leader, harassed a couple out to dinner yesterday, yelling and screaming at them like a nut job. He got up in the middle of their dinner to point fingers and shout about how someone voted. Just pause to think about how crazy that is if you saw it with […]
Discovering The Valiant: Shadowman Vol. 1
I’ve mentioned this last week how excited i was about the Valiant Universe, because of the relaunch of X-O Manowar #1, which hooked me immediately, so much that I grabbed a trade of the original 1992 Shadowman series… and if you’re already confused because I’m dropping titles without context, don’t worry, I’ll catch you up: […]
Retro Comic Review: Valiant Masters: Shadowman Vol. 1
This book collects Shadowman #0-7 from Valiant Comics’ 1992 run and some character info from Darque Passages #1. Shadowman is an interesting comic. It has a hero in New Orleans, in the Bayou, dealing with the swamp, the nightlife of the city. He’s definitely of that “dark vigilante” bent that came out of Frank Miller’s […]
A Reading From The Book of Jonah
Pastor Tyler Scott at Community Presbyterian Church had such a great message yesterday, I thought I would share this morning. The context is a reading of the book of Jonah, chapter two, of which we get this beautiful passage: 1 [a]From inside the fish Jonah prayed to the Lord his God. 2 He said: “In […]
Cernovich on FAKE NEWS 60 Minutes Tonight
I for one am very excited. We know how this goes. News media acts like they take an idea (like my very verifiable story about Marvel comics), selectively edits and then completely twists what’s being said in order to attempt to destroy and discredit the person. They ignore the real story, but the thing is […]
