This year I fell down on the job in completing my Goodreads reading challenge. I started with an optimistic attempt to read 75 books. I started strong, but a brutal self-imposed writing schedule kept me hopping, and I realized in about August that I was nowhere near where I wanted to be for reading challenges. […]
Read More My Year in Reading 2017By Susan Defreitas The Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Diaz, highfalutin’ literary author though he may be, has famously mourned the fact that there will be no more Octavia Butler books. The iconic Black author, who won both a PEN Lifetime Achievement Award and a MacArthur “Genius” grant—not to mention the Hugo, the Nebula, and the Locus—died in 2006, leaving […]
Read More Octavia’s Daughters: Meet the New Queens of Spec FicThe Wind Through the Keyhole by Stephen King My rating: 5 of 5 stars Read for the Apocalypse Now! Reading Challenge, the High Fantasy Reading Challenge, and the Read the Sequel Reading Challenge. Stephen King describes this as “Dark Tower 4.5,” so this is the sequence I chose to read it in for my re-read. […]
Read More Book Review: The Wind Through the Keyhole by Stephen KingCat is writing a series of articles about the SFWA and the relationship of indie writers to the organization. I am reblogging it here because I know that other SFF indie authors will want to know! By Cat Rambo, current President of the SFWA As part of a Twitter conversation, one of my favorite gamewriters, […]
Read More History of the SFWAI hope this holiday season brings you food, friends and family (in that order; sometimes family is a mixed blessing!) However you choose to celebrate, Happy Holidays! Enjoy this awesome playlist I found of geekish holiday songs and videos! And may you and yours find all the best in the New Year! (And by the […]
Read More Happy Holidays!Blessed Solstice to all of you who choose to celebrate, and may the next year bring you all the joy of your heart! If you want to listen to some Yule music that my friends and I made, here you go! Otherwise, enjoy this clip of the Harry Potter Yule Ball music:
Read More Happy Solstice!Just a gentle reminder that the next installment in the Wyrd West Chronicles, The Reaping, is coming out tomorrow. You might be interested to know this one is not a novelette, but a full-length novella! Today is your last chance to pre-order and your last chance to take advantage of my Wyrd West sale! You […]
Read More New Release in the Wyrd West Chronicles!Wizard and Glass by Stephen King My rating: 5 of 5 stars Read for the Second Best Reading Challenge, the Apocalypse Now! Reading Challenge, the Author! Author! Reading Challenge, the High Fantasy Reading Challenge, the Need to Reread Challenge,, and the Read the Sequel Challenge. This novel was nominated for the Locus Award, which qualifies […]
Read More Book Review: Wizard and Glass by Stephen KingBy Randy Ellefson Depending on your ability, creating names for people, places, and beings in fantasy books can either be fun or a pain. I’ve been doing this for three decades and will provide some tricks and thoughts to help. KISS KISS doesn’t really stand for “keep it simple, stupid”, but it’s a good principle […]
Read More Creating Fantasy NamesThe Waste Lands by Stephen King My rating: 5 of 5 stars Read for the Second Best Reading Challenge; the Apocalypse Now! Reading Challenge; the Author! Author! Reading Challenge; the Need to Reread Challenge; and the Read the Sequel Reading Challenge. This book was a nominee for the Stoker Award, which qualifies it for the […]
Read More Book Review: The Waste Lands by Stephen King
