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The Story So Far
- “Summer Of The Stranger”
- What’s Going On? Update for Early June
- After Action Report: Small Worlds
- Session Report: Long Florida ACKS
- Little Fuzzy
- I learned the truth at seventeen
- Killing Every Puppy In The Galaxy!
- Gaming & Fiction
- So far so good, but not far enough and could be better
- Misha Burnett’s An Atlas of Bad Roads a Finalist for the Chinaski Awards
More Of The Same
What I Write About
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- Don't do this
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Category Archives: Artists That I Admire
Wylding Hall
This, in my opinion, is Weird Fiction done right. First, it works as Fiction, without the Weird. That is to say, it’s a story about a Folk Rock Band who rented a house in the countryside in the early 1970s … Continue reading
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Tales Of Yog Sothoth
I was sent a review copy of this book by one of the contributors. “Lovecraftian” is one of those overused adjectives that people trot out to mean a lot of different things. The stories in this collection are linked by … Continue reading
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Adventure Stories For Young Readers
I am partnering with Cedar Sanderson’s newly formed Sanderley Studios to produce a collection of short fiction for young readers. I am looking for exciting adventure stories that showcase (but not preach) virtues, suitable for boys and girls in their … Continue reading
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Endless Summer Audiobook
I got to listen to the audio files for Endless Summer over the last few days. I was blown away. Seriously, the experience of having the stories read to me, one after the other, was so intense that I had … Continue reading
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A Truly Steller Achievement
Ninety authors. Nearly two hundred stories. Eleven volumes. Tuscany Bay’s Planetary Anthology Series is now complete. This is really an extraordinary body of work. Originally conceived by Superversive Press and then handed off to Tuscany Bay Books, it has been … Continue reading
Asteroids
There’s a new anthology out from Lagrange Books. This one is Hard SF. My own contribution is called “Fragile” and it’s an homage to a type of crime story that I’ve always liked. An innocent man is taken hostage by … Continue reading
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Pulp On Pulp
Well, it’s finally here. What started as a discussion about writing on Twitter has become a reality. A collection of essays from a number of authors with a wide variety of viewpoints will be available in a few days. The … Continue reading
Florida Man
To make it very clear, I am talking about the Audiobook in this review, and not the Graphic Novel project with the same name. Given that they use the same cover art, I am guessing that they are the same … Continue reading
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You Can Do Anything In A Game (But You Can’t Do That)
Last night, on Roll20, I was part of another one-shot playtest of Venger Satanis‘ Crimson Dragon Slayer system. This one got… weird. Now that, in itself, was not unexpected, but the way in which it got weird was interesting. There … Continue reading
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Strange Days Waiting: The stories of Endless Summer
The Kickstarter for my latest short fiction collection, Endless Summer, is now live. Now, I’ve gone on record in this blog as saying that I am not a Science Fiction writer. So what does it mean that this collection is … Continue reading