I was recently struck with an idea for a fantasy story, almost more of a fairytale, that had some dark elements to it. Not Tim Burton dark, but definitely with some heavier overtones. I started brainstorming on it, jotting ideas in my notebook, and pretty soon realized that it had solid potential for being a…
I recently posted that my award-winning friend Ricky Lima had suggested a while ago that I focus on writing comics, and that I had started doing so and was enjoying it. The problem with writing indie comics that you can’t draw for yourself, of course, is that once you’ve written your script, you’ve done as…
And lo, it began: The celebratory ringing in of a new year and, some said, a new decade. Only to be quashed by those who pointed out that *ahem* Actually, no, a new decade starts when the year ends with a one, not with a zero. But there’s more to it. It’s correct to say…
It’s being reported today that drumming legend Neil Peart passed away this Tuesday after battling brain cancer for the last three years. It’s difficult to put into words what Neil meant to me. As a young child, I was cradled in my mother’s arms and she would pat me to the rhythm of whatever music…
It’s been far too long in coming, but hopefully in short order, this website will not only be live (it actually is now, though no one’s checking it out because I haven’t declared it as active yet, but when I do, boy, howdy, people by the half dozen will come a-runnin’!), but will also look…
Yes, Happy New Year, as this is the first, if belated, post of 2020. For anyone wondering, I have four resolutions for the year, which seems a reasonable amount. In no particular order: Shop Around At Least One Book For PublishingThis one is a biggie for me, what with never having done anything like it…
I managed to read 40 books this year, well above 2018’s total of 27. Hoping for getting through even more in 2020. Here are a list of my top 10, appearing in the order in which I read them:
As promised, here are my reading lists for August through to October. I don’t know if the September/October list is actually exhaustive, but it’s all I can recall and is better than nothing.
I realized a couple of months back that I had forgotten to post the books I had read for the month. I’d done the tracking and writing up of the list (the “hard part”, such as it is), I’d just forgotten to post it. And then I thought I probably should. But then didn’t. And…
As posted earlier, I definitely find myself more likely to seek out print books than ebooks. The proof was in the pudding yesterday. I found myself in a bookstore, which is never a bad thing. The item I was looking for wasn’t available, though, so there I was left in a bookstore (unsupervised, dangerously) with…