One day I was sitting here and I thought, we need more cowboys in space. This lead me to sit down at the computer and start writing. The result was originally called ‘The Brothers of Katie Rose’; an homage to the classic western flick, ‘The Sons of Katie Elder’, but then I changed it to [...]
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I wish I could better streamline my day and time. Aren’t we all about that? Getting more done, having more time, etc and so on?
I find there are times when I wish my body wouldn’t betray my brain; I want to write, to work on this or that, but my body is all, [...]
Once again, my friend John Anealio and I had the privilege of hosting a fantastic guest over on the Functional Nerds podcast. John Picacio is an award winning artist who has put together some of the most memorable cover art I’ve seen in a long time.
His covers grace books from many different publishers, have won [...]
I little while ago, I put up a post saying that I’d like to blog for you (That offer is still open, btw). Essentially, the idea was that I would write a guest post for your blog and you would write one for mine. You pick the topic I write and I pick the topic [...]
I figured it was time to do some writing updates, since that’s what all of this is really about. Funny enough, the genesis for this piece lies lies in the live episode of ‘I should be writing’ from Mur Lafferty. They were talking about writing and publishing and whether or not to publish your stuff [...]
John Anealio gave me some shit last week on the Functional Nerds podcast because I always say, ‘The channel formerly known as SciFi’ when talking about the former SciFi Channel, now called ‘SyFy’.
I say it because it’s my way of pointing out the absurdity of the whole name change bs. I would also ridicule the [...]
Well.
It’s all over the net (io9, TVSquad, IGN) that Lucasfilm Director of Fan Relations Steve Sansweet suggested that a new animated series would continue the adventures of Luke Skywalker, Han Solo and Princess Leia Organa.
How, isn’t quite clear yet.
People are kinda confused, to tell you the truth. Including me – which is why I’m posting [...]
Whenever an idea comes to mind, I have to write it down. Today’s excerpt is from an idea that I had for a scifi story. I wrote up the synopsis and a dozen or so chapters but felt there were other projects that needed to be completed before this one, so it has sat on [...]
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In this weeks ATFMB podcast, I talk about scifi television, including the renewal of Fox hit Fringe for a 3rd season, Chuck’s ratings win that might mean a 4th season and how i09 has a list of 25 books Hollywood should be making movies out of, how HBO has greenlit a new series based on [...]