I don’t want to get too hippie here, but I sensed an energy shift in everything about a week ago. This hit for politics, spiritual life, everything. It’s been a major positive thing and I’ve seen results through book sales.vAmazon’s taken off. I can’t explain it. It’s just in the background but it’s booming. And […]
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Play No Games
You’ve been waiting for quite a long time here, and so have I. Flying Sparks returns for a 4th volume TODAY on Kickstarter. I haven’t seen any other indie superhero book get this many issues. We’ve truly accomplished the incredible with this series and what’s more incredible is how it keeps getting better. This volume […]
The Death Of Pro Sports
Get woke, go broke seems to happen every time. And since sports without fans in the audience decided to pull their political moves this year, no one wants to watch it. The NBA playoffs inside the Orlando bubble averaged 1.875 million viewers for the first week, down 20 percent from last season, per data from RealGM […]
The Curious Case Of Charlton Comics
I’ve been doing a lot of research into Steve Ditko’s old comics over the weekend. He did a lot of work for Charlton Comics over the years, of which he’s best known for his work on Blue Beetle, Captain Atom, and The Question, but those titles only make up a minimal amount of his work […]
Making Science Fiction Greater
Last night was so inspiring. The president delivered a message of hope, showing exactly why America is exceptional, our freedom is unapralleled, and our destiny is one ordained by God Almighty to transform this world into something great. The fireworks underlined the light in the darkness, the path forward, the bombs bursting in air, and […]
The Corporate Culture War Grift
After you’ve been around the block awhile, you see posts of folk complaining about online movements which devolve into meaninglessness. It’s pretty easy to spot the symptoms at this point to not involve yourself: Conservatives/Right Wingers are blacklisted/wronged/banned from some industry. The people react, supporting said right wingers. People want more — they want an […]
The Big Day!
I know so many of you have been waiting for this for a couple of years, and you won’t have to wait any longer. The Stars Asunder continues the epic space opera world I set out to write since I’ve been 18 years old. This is one of those near-Tolkien-level projects where I’ve got worlds […]
Why Do They Keep Screwing Up Franchises? (Star Trek / Batman Edition)
Watching every major media franchise turn into a trainwreck can be disheartening (if you’re not an indie author waiting in the wings and putting out better content than these corporations). Most recently, there’s been no greater failures than the Star Trek and Batman franchises. It’s hard to know where to begin talking about these because […]
Amazon Censoring Book Reviews!
As if I didn’t have enough to worry about with having an army of haters who stalk my releases and leave one stars to try to tank my ratings and future sales, now Amazon is treating my real readers like this: How am I supposed to get honest reviews when they’re hidden and deemed “too […]
The Beauty Of Simplicity
A failing I see with most modern stories is not only an attempt to make every story “darker” than the last to try to get some sort of edgy feel where it makes a reader or viewer nauseous, but modern fiction also tends to overcomplicate stories compared to the greats of the past. Everything that […]
Ditko On Heroism and Truth
I found this video of Steve Ditko speaking as to what a hero is and should be, on ideals and truth, and how important those ideals are to story. I’d never heard Ditko’s voice before, and though he’s obviously not an orator or salesman like Stan Lee while reading this script, his ideas are what’s […]
Deconstruction Is The Problem
It was illuminating reading how science fiction author John Scalzi talks about the classics with zero reverence this morning. It shows how the current crop at traditional publishing doesn’t love the genre and therefore could never do the genre well. They always are attempting to “deconstruct” the stories, characters, art, in an attempt to show […]