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Bookshelf: A Midsummer Night’s Steampunk
I first met Oberon Malieux as a contestant in a Space Balrogs game called Steampunk Supervillain Smackdown. He was a dastardly rogue, played by Scott Tarbet in goggles, top hat, and kilt, whose plan as supervillain was to mechanically augment … Continue reading
Bookshelf: A Short Stay in Hell
I love Steve Peck for many reasons, one of which is his utter refusal to be pigeonholed. I have read and enjoyed The Scholar of Moab, which is Utah’s answer to Titus Groan, the fragmented saga of an idiotic would-be … Continue reading
Professionalism
I was asked on Facebook a few weeks ago whether I’d learned anything in my time as a corporate lawyer that I found applicable / useful to my career as an author. The answer is, absolutely yes. With that as … Continue reading
Bookshelf: Echoes of a Shattered Age
What if the best Saturday morning cartoons of the ‘80s had starred Toshiro Mifune? What if the enemies in The Seven Samurai had been demons summoned from the deepest, foulest pits of hell — and one of the Samurai was … Continue reading
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Tagged Demons, High Fantasy, Kung Fu, Ninja, R.J. Terrell, Samurai, Saturday Morning Cartoons, Toshiro Mifune, Wordfire Press
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For Dan Wells
…and other readers of historical fiction, a list of some of my favorites, in alphabetical order. Where I recommend the first book (marked with an asterisk), you should understand that I’m recommending the series. (Dan may have read some of … Continue reading
Bookshelf: Beasts of Tabat
Cat Rambo’s Tabat is a fantasy steampunk city riven with tensions. In the annual hieratic gladiatorial contests, Winter has had a long winning streak, and the city’s folk are tired of short springs. The Duke’s ancestor promised a democracy after … Continue reading
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Tagged Beasts of Tabat, Cat Rambo, Steampunk, Wordfire Press
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Seattle, Here I Come!
I’ll be at Emerald City Comicon this weekend, with the Wordfire Press team. Look for me on a panel about Steampunk on Saturday, and all three days at the Wordfire both in the dealer room.
Why Should You Read Crecheling?
Because Elon Musk and Steven Wozniak BOTH think it’s our future.
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Tagged Artificial Intelligence, Crecheling, Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak
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The First Requisite
“[I]gnorance is the first requisite of the historian — ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.” — Lytton Strachey, Eminent Victorians
Positioning Your Fiction
“It’s the basic question you must always know how to answer: What are we offering customers, why is it better than the other options available to them, and how will we make money from it?” — Ram Charan, Know-How
