For the first time in forever, I’ve read enough books to warrant wanting to brag about it. What better way to brag than by writing a round-up blog post?! Nothing short of a stage, a microphone and some sort of sparklie lights, of course...
I doodle. You doodle too. Today I have doodled for you… BEHOLD! A couple of nefarious people doing nefarious things… This one is another example of my scanner not liking my pencils. Everyone (and thing?) is a critic… ...
Reviews are coming in on the Space Battles anthology and my short story, First Contact. BookWormBlues had this to say: On the flip side, my favorite story in the anthology was First Contact by Patrick Hester. While it did have some obvious scifi...
The weekend was good to me. 3400 words one day, 4300 the next. Not too shabby. When I started writing Cold as Ice, the story flowed really well. I wrote the first part fairly quickly before my mind, racing ahead, forced me to skip a pivotal...
Soulless by Gail Carriger My rating: 4 of 5 stars I picked this book up after talking with the lovely and engaging Gail Carriger for the SF Signal podcast. Karen Burnham, blogger for SF Signal, for her own site...
Think of these posts as the opposite of a review – cuz I haven’t actually read the book yet… I have impulse control problems – especially when it comes to buying books. SO, this results in my always having a pile of...
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is the sixth in the series from JK Rowling and the first that I read before seeing the movie, which may have colored my experience just a bit. I want to say up front that I enjoyed the film, I really did...
I’ve been reading the Dresden files for a while now, so I’m really hooked. “Blood Rites” is by no means the latest book in the series, it’s simply the latest one I’ve read and I really liked it. Harry Dresden...
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