The New York Times yesterday came out with an article on how necessary it is to save Barnes & Noble, the original local bookstore killer. Remember, this is the company that made your local bookstore go out of business in the 90s. The company launched a number of failed initiatives to compete with Amazon over […]
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Should Authors Work In Multiple Genres?
Like anything, it depends on your goals. Working as an author is a balance between art and commercial appeal, and so one has to keep both in mind while creating. Over my one year span of releasing in the business, I’ve released works in three different subgenres of science fiction: Space Opera / Mil SF, […]
Flash Fiction Friday – “Fired Up In The Desert”
I don’t usually write much random fiction in the middle of projects, but this popped into my head today. It’s extremely short, but I’ve been meaning to do a little more weird west and don’t have time for much so this hopefully will quench my thirst for awhile. Free to read, fresh off the word […]
Happy Frogs: Moving The Cultural Needle
We have a lot of work to do with the Happy Frogs, and we’re just getting started. So far as an organization we’ve: Posted a 2017 Dragon Awards Recommendation Slate, and gotten every person nominated Posted 2017 Dragon Awards Finalists Recommendation Slate Posted a 2018 Hugo Awards Recommendation Slate Posted a 2018 Hugo Awards Finalists […]
Retro Review: The Rebel Worlds by Poul Anderson
The next story in the Dominic Flandry series brings about another change for the character. Ensign Flandrey brought us a nice war with the Mersians and showed how one world escalated a galactic conflict. A Circus of Hells showed Dominic floating around doing spy work, expanded the Mersian conflict, and it truly felt like a […]
Culture Convention Watch: BayCon
BayCon was the first convention to give me problems over my political affiliation. A lot of the people involved in it are also involved in this year’s WorldCon, as it’s in the same location, and so it makes sense that the discrimination I face now on a much bigger level originated here. I like to […]
New Releases: Knight Training novella + New T-Shirt
Just because we’re winning awards around these parts doesn’t mean we’re stopping working. I’ve got two very exciting things to announce that are out now: One, the James Gentry novella, “Knight Training” is available for $3/mo patreon subscribers. This is the direct sequel to For Steam And Country and it’s set between books 2-3. Readers […]
CLFA Book Of The Year Award Winning
Thanks everyone for all your hard work in going out and voting on this. It was a really tough fight on this front, because every book on the list was 100% deserving. It was even harder on one front, because of dozens of votes coming in each day for both For Steam And Country and […]
CLFA Book Of The Year Award – Last Day To Vote!
First off, for the 220+ people who have voted for For Steam And Country already, thank you so much! Super humbled, and energized to work hard to get you books 2-3 out this summer, and the James Gentry novella “Knight Training” which will be available to patreon subscribers tomorrow. But there’s just a few hours […]
SJWs Mob Attack Girl For Wearing A Dress
This weekend, crazy mob “social justice” reached peak crazy when this tweet hit the internet: https://twitter.com/jere_bare/status/989981023076208640 It’s retweeted thousands of times, thousands of people and went on this poor high school girl’s feed to ridicule her, call her names, etc. in an attempt to bully her over a prom dress. She wore a prom […]
We Are On Our Way To World Peace – How About Peace In Geek Fandom?
This last week has been one of the most inspiring, uplifting weeks in perhaps the course of human history, certainly of this century. We have Kanye West reaching across racial and cultural divides to embrace President Trump, and vice versa. We have north and south Korea coming together and putting an end to hostilities after […]
Don’t Fall For The Fear Tactics Used To Silence Artists
Kanye West again is blowing minds this morning. I was going to write about something else, but fear tactics were used against me my entire way up as a writer, and it held me down for years. Don’t say anything about being a republican or a christian, it’ll hurt your brand. It’ll only turn people […]
