I love my readers. No, really, I do. I write under four (*ahem* or more *ahem*) pen names and so far, nearly every reader for books published under every pen name has been a delight to interact with. But some of you are getting a little impatient. A couple of months ago, I received an email from a fan of the Vampyr Series (V.R. Cumming) that pushed me to write a post detailing exactly what’s been going on in my…
Over the past few months, I’ve sneaked in some time to watch a few TV shows of the unusual sort, beginning way back in November. Here are the ones I liked the best, plus some shows I’ve already watched and some I’m looking forward to watching. The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, a Netflix original, was based on the old Archie comic book series. Netflix excels at transforming comic books into really awesome shows, and Sabrina is no exception. It’s a…
The year in books is off to a slow if interesting start, beginning with some short stories. “The Endless Lives of Kama” by William Delman at Daily Science Fiction explores the consequences of prescience. It can be enjoyed with or without pondering the deeper layers within the story, but those who enjoy oracle type stories will surely delve more deeply. “ILU-486” by Amanda Ching is predicated on the notion that there is a war on women coming from the right. Don’t…
September was an interesting month, book wise. The coming of autumn, coupled with the writing projects I’m working on, inspired a not-so-brief spurt of interest in Urban and Contemporary Fantasy, plus I continued chipping away at my humongously large pile of non-fiction. I didn’t read any short fiction in September, which is a first, though I do keep up with several blogs. One of those blogs lead me to “The Coddling of the American Mind” by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt,…