I just found this after years. I adapted someone’s short story for 40k into an audio drama for some people online as I was very interested in audio dramas at the time (still am!). Tonight, Daddy Warpig sent over a link to some old Shadow radio dramas from the 30s, which I found awesome, so […]
Michael Savage Assaulted While Out To Dinner
Edit: In retrospect, I should have titled this: “Literal Nazi Left: SJW Assaults Elderly Jewish Man”. Oh well, next time. Cuz it will happen again. Even formerly nice places like Tiburon aren’t safe. This is why my wife tells me I’m not allowed to wear my Make America Great Again hat out, even to go to […]
New Projects Round Up
Made a lot of progress in the last couple of days. Here’s the skinny of it while I’m hard at work: Edits of For Steam and Country coming back today. I’ll have to dive in and make my own follow up corrections to the work and work on the next clean up pass before copy […]
What’s It Take To Be An Author?
Yesterday I was asked, as I have been a few times before “I’m trying to write but what’s it take to be an author?” The simple answer is to write and keep writing. It takes hundreds of hours to complete a book, and you need to have several books if you really want to make […]
God Bless 4Chan
CIA, FBI, NSA, all of them have access to your tvs, your phones, your cars. They can hear or see anything you say or do at all times, yet they can’t catch leakers within their own organization and terrorists still slip through the cracks. And these are well paid, highly trained professionals with the resources […]
Baseball By Dummies Podcast Feat. Me!
I am on yet another podcast today, the Baseball By Dummies podcast, one of my favorite podcasts on the sport, probably second only to Effectively Wild which I consider to be the grandaddy of them all. They interviewed me about the Oakland A’s season this year and what I thought of it (as I am […]
Oakland A’s Ace Sonny Gray Injured
Well, crap. Those are the two words that me and thousands of other of Oakland A’s fans are thinking right now. He’s got a “lat strain” as reported this morning by Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle. That injury is going to keep him out through spring training at least, and he’s been […]
Retro Review: Fire Time by Poul Anderson
When I started reading Poul Anderson’s Fire Time, I did she because I thought it was on the Appendix N reading list. While Mr. Anderson makes that list twice, this was not one of those books. However, I’m quite happy I found this magnificent author through this work first, and would highly recommend anyone start […]
Vacation Reading
When I’m about to head out for vacation, naturally I’m stressed as anyone else: did I get everything done at home? have I made up for my potential work absence? am I forgetting to bring something? Invariably, there’s an issue with one of the items above. But what adds to my stress as a book nerd, […]
Quick Shots
Far too busy to blog much today, but I will leave you with 3 awesome tidbits: Reading Poul Anderson’s Fire Time – Centaurs under a twin sun with barbarians at the gate. A space fleet of humans who may intervene. And they drink beer and smoke tobacco. Epic #PulpRevolution. #BasedStickMan: American Hero The Corroding Empire […]
Congratulations to Mike Glyer and File 770
Today it was announced that they are on the short list for a hugo nomination for best fanzine from the Rabid Puppies and Vox Day. Truly a wondrous achievement for them. As a person who is completely responsible for most of their traffic in February, in a lot of ways, it’s like getting nominated myself. […]
I posted a joke and a hashtag on Gab.ai and you’ll never believe what happened next ;)
I love Gab. It’s fun. It’s free speech. I feel safe there where other social media has left me and many others open to harassment and vitriol of a sort that prior to 2016, I’d never seen on anywhere except for 4chan. One thing on gab that’s been almost impossible to topple, is their top […]
Catholic Geek Radio: Sunday 3/5
Pleased to announce that I’ll be a guest on Catholic Geek Radio this Sunday, March 5th at 1:00 PM Pacific Standard Time. We’ll be talking about Space Opera, what makes it good, what makes it bad, and everything in between (probably mostly rambling about Babylon 5 and Deep Space 9… hopefully with a little Star […]
CLFA Book Of The Year Awards
Nominations are set and the link is below for voting. I’ve read about half the books on this list, and almost all of them are by friends so this is pretty exciting. Happy voting! https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/795FRFS
46 Days Of Lent – Bye Bye Facebook
And thus comes the time of year in which we reflect and honor God’s sacrifice to the world when he became a man, took up the mantle of the cross for our sins, and finally overcame death itself in order to cleanse our eternal souls from sins. I watched as a couple of really wonderful […]
Over On Declan Finn’s Blog…
It’s not every day you get to take over a famous author’s blog. I’ve actually done so a few times in my coming onto the writing scene (hello to those readers who are here because of that!), and each time so far it’s come with a pretty specific “write about this” guideline. Last night, I had the […]
Do Away With The NEA
A friend of mine wrote a very well thought out, passionate response to the funding cuts for the NEA, and why we should consider keeping it. I wrote a response which I thought was worth sharing with you, my readers, and here it is: As an artist myself, I’m happy that the NEA is going […]
Great Strides
If you’ve followed me for awhile, you know that my family is very active in supporting the Cystic Fibrosis foundation. This medical charity is honestly more important to me than anything else, writing career included. We do a lot to donate and support this charity as a family. If you’re not familiar with the condition, […]
Oh, It’s Just The Press Being Diligent…
If you thought Big Media / Big Tech fake news was something innocuous, MSNBC had quite the slip up this morning: “He could have undermined the messaging so much that he can actually control exactly what people think. And that, that is our job.” — MSNBC contributor on the air today. It’s not about […]
I’m done!
Finished up my pass on For Steam and Country and sent it off to be edited and prettied up. It turned out very nicely. I think it may be even more fun than Rescue Run, if that’s possible. The concept is that a teenaged girl finds out that her father is dead and that she’s inherited […]
Big Tech Is Not Your Friend
Many of you are going to be reading this via Facebook or Twitter when this blog hits. These networks, as big as they are, are dangerous tools that are propagating a narrative to you. There’s been a lot of chatter lately about what these giants are going to do to “stop trolling” or “stop the spread […]
Some Quick #PulpRevolution Reading
A friend of mine brought to my attention a couple of anthologies produced a couple of decades ago, where a couple of heavy hitter editors went back and researched some of their favorite old out-of-print pulpy stories and assembled them for ease of read for the new generation to discover these Worlds of Wonder: https://www.amazon.com/Good-Old-Stuff-Gardner-Dozois-ebook/dp/B00G1FBO7G […]
Going For The Throat
That’s what the bacteria or virus or whatever inside me has done. Spent last night unable to sleep, throat so swollen I can’t swallow. Hurts! Needless to say, if you haven’t realized, my Geekchats with Superstar Editor Jason Rennie – The Man Who Makes Amazon Bestsellers has been pushed back to next Friday on account […]
Friendship In The Time Of SJWs
An author friend of mine wrote an interesting blog about social media and politics from the perspective of a European living in America, citing how bad it’s become. As I mentioned on Vox Popoli last week, “The Science Fiction and Fantasy writing and convention scene is one of the worst SJW converged subcultures.” When people […]