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Art!
I do some creative work with Too Many Legs, a premier animation studio in Salt Lake City. My good friend and author / rocker Craig Nybo originally hooked me up with Ian Johnston, Tim Rowberry, and the rest of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Be the Ball, Craig Nybo, FIFA, Ian Johnston, Tim Rowberry, TML, Too Many Legs, World Cup, Zo
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Airships of Camelot
Rob Wells is branching out into Indie publishing with his forthcoming novel Airships of Camelot! I think this is a great thing — as the industry changes, I think many professional authors will have fingers in various kinds of publishing … Continue reading
Bookshelf: Slags and Embers
Debut novelist Brian Lindow has launched an epic of which C.S. Lewis would be proud. The Soulscape Code: Slags and Embers is the first of a series set in a ruined world. Deprived of its defenders (the three Forges of … Continue reading
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Tagged Brandon Sanderson, Brian Lindow, C.S. Lewis, David Farland, Slags and Embers, The Soulscape Code, Worldbuilding
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Connecticon 2015
I’m heading to Connecticut this week. I’ve spent a surprising amount of time in and around Hartford in the last year with corporate training clients, but this time I’m heading out for Connecticon. Here’s my tentative schedule: Friday 2:40 pm … Continue reading
The Enemies of Our Enemies, Quack
HeroQuest with the kids last night. On the north side of the tula, where nothing ever happens, we adventurers met Rictus Piercefeather, servant of Hueymakt, and Fauna Pintail, acolyte of the Earth Mother. Ducks. Carrying a clutch of seven eggs. … Continue reading
Fill Yourself with Substance
I’m a big proponent of self-driven learning. For a writer, I think that’s essential. So here are some of the non-fiction books I’ve read in the last couple of months. Leibniz: An Intellectual Biography. I had never heard of Gottfried … Continue reading
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Tagged A History of Venice, Amihai Mazar, Archaeology, Astronomy, Azazal, Byzantium, Cancer, Capricorn, Isaac Newton, Israel Finkelstein, John Julius Norwich, Leibniz, Leviticus, Maria Rosa Antognazza, Neal Stephenson, Richard Allen, Star Names, The Bible, The Quest for the Historical Israel, Venice
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Bookshelf: The Children of Húrin
I’ve just read Tolkien’s recently-published story The Children of Húrin. I don’t have a lot to say about it: in tone and voice, it’s somewhere between The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings, so if you liked The Silmarillion you … Continue reading
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Tagged Elric, J.R.R. Tolkien, Michael Moorcock, The Children of Húrin, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion
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Bookshelf: Rescue from Planet Pleasure
Felix Gomez is ex-military, a hard-nosed PI who operates on the borderlands between the natural and supernatural worlds, among Anglo and Mexican and Native American traditions, and sometimes between different planets. And he’s a vampire. Felix’s friend Carmen is being … Continue reading
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Tagged Felix Gomez, Mario Acevedo, Rescue from Planet Pleasure, Wordfire Press
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More or Less Connected Legend
“[O]nce upon a time (my crest has long since fallen) I had a mind to make a body of more or less connected legend, ranging from the large and cosmogonic, to the level of romantic fairy-story — the larger founded … Continue reading
Bookshelf: The Hollow City
Michael Shipman is crazy. That doesn’t mean he’s wrong. Michael suffers from schizophrenia, and he knows that when the meds aren’t working, he hallucinates. He may or may not see people without faces, people others can’t see, or whom others … Continue reading
