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Bookshelf: The Billy Saga
Michaelbrent Collings is a writer probably best known for his horror novels, but he’s always written outside that genre, from science fiction thrillers to young adult vampire romance to karate instruction manual. With the Billy Saga, Michaelbrent gets into Middle … Continue reading
Resolutions
The last year+ has been tumultuous. We moved twice, I changed career and ramped in a new job, and Emily and I each got a book deal. I’m not saying a bad year, but it’s been challenging, with lots of … Continue reading
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Tagged Blogging, Goals, Helping Writers, Internet, Resolutions, Social Media, Writing Targets
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Bookshelf: Small Town Monsters
Craig Nybo is the Norman Rockwell of gory monster adventure fiction. I’ve read two of Craig’s novels (his earlier foray into similar space — “just your average zombies versus the KKK story,” as he likes to say — was Allied … Continue reading
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Tagged Allied Zombies for Peace, Cliche, Craig Nybo, David Byrne, Doc Hollywood, Goonies, Small Town Monsters
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[words]
I stopped in recently at [words], a terrific independent bookstore in Maplewood, New Jersey (in the Newark area). Maplewood is lovely, in that narrow streets and lots of trees village way that old towns in the northeastern US can have. [words] … Continue reading
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Tagged [words], Aladdin, Bad Unicorn, Independent, Maplewood, Michelle Frey, New Jersey, Platte Clark, R.J. Palacio, Story Monkeys, Wonder
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Bookshelf: Captain Nemo
I’m reading Jules Verne these days, to try to learn to read a little French, if not speak it. So when I sat on a panel on Steampunk at FanX with Kevin J. Anderson, and we talked about Jules Verne … Continue reading
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Tagged FanX, Jules Verne, Kevin Anderson, Steampunk
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Zombie Enfranchisement
At Salt Lake City ComicCon’s recent FanExperience convention, Craig Nybo, Michaelbrent Collings, and I staged a mock trial. Craig’s an audio engineer and producer (he has lots of talents), and on the day he miked us. Here’s the audio. This … Continue reading
Posted in Conventions
Tagged ComicCon, Court Battles, Craig Nybo, FanX, Michaelbrent Collings, Right to Vote, Zombies
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What Is Steampunk? (Storymakers)
This weekend I taught at LDS Storymakers, an annual writing conference held in Utah. I taught on the subject of Steampunk, and I won’t share all my slides, in case I get invited to teach the same material again, but … Continue reading
Posted in Conventions, Steampunk
Tagged Hayao Miyazaki, Howl's Moving Castle, K.W. Jeter, LDS Storymakers, Neal Stephenson, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, The Steampunk Scholar, The Wild Wild West, Tim Powers
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Bookshelf: Lights in the Deep
The “R” stands for Real. Brad Torgersen has been a friend for a few years, a guy I’ve seen around conventions several times a year and on social media more frequently. I’ve known him as something of a dork (that’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Apocalyptic Fiction, Brad Torgersen, Lights in the Deep, Religion, Science Fiction
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Convention Highlights: FanX 2014
I admit I entered into my first panel with some trepidation: the idea of litigating zombie civil rights is hilarious, but I greatly feared that I was going to do a bad job. And, as it turned out, I lost. … Continue reading
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Tagged Aliens, Blake Casselman, Bob Defendi, Brad Torgersen, C.S. Lewis, Carter Reid, ComicCon, Craig Nybo, Dan Willis, Dystopian Fiction, Edgar Allan Poe, FanX, H.P. Lovecraft, Hero's Journey, Howard Tayler, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jaleta Clegg, John Steiner, Joseph Campbell, Kevin Anderson, Larry Correia, Lisa Mangum, Michael Collings, Michaelbrent Collings, Nathan Shumate, Orson Scott Card, Paul Anderson, Peter Wacks, Robison Wells, Robots, S.A. Butler, Sarah E. Seeley, Scott Taylor, Steampunk, Stephen King, Steven L. Peck, Zombies
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Themes
I’ve been reflecting on this more than will be apparent from the post, but in connection with the many changes in my personal and professional life in recent months, I’ve come to see that I have several go-to themes. I … Continue reading
