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Crossover Characters
Ever since I was a kid, my friends and I would play games where we asked what would happen if characters from different fictional universes met. What would happen if Batman met The Green Hornet? What if Captain Kirk and the Doctor from Doctor Who shared an adventure? Who would win if the Predator and…
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Nothing to Say
“How the hell can a person go to work in the morning, come home in the evening, and have nothing to say?” – the late great John Prine. There are many reasons why this happens in a relationship, most of them unpleasant when it applies to couples. But it only applies to my book writing…
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The Misogynist
Welcome back to my series on the influencers of my writing style. The second face on my personal Mount Rushmore of mentors is John Frederick Lange Jr., or to use his more familiar pen name, John Norman. As well as being a writer, Norman was also a professor of philosophy with a particular focus on…
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Universal Expansion
Have you ever looked back one day as an author and realized how your world ballooned? I just did this morning. I’ve been writing for nine years now, mostly in the lane I call the Legacy Universe, a fictional realm wherein superhumans were made in the 1870s and this caused history to change in big…
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Going Back to Horror’s Roots
A good case can be made that science fiction and horror were born together during a retreat in May 1816 and two of Britain’s great poets were there for the occasion. The poets were Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley. Lord Byron’s doctor, John William Polidori, and Mary Godwin, who later married Percy Shelley, accompanied…
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I Heard I Was In Town
Late the other night, when I was cruising the mean, dark alleys in my home city’s bustling nightclub district searching for my next victim, I overheard an interesting remark that a certain reputed predator was rumored to be back in town. The source was a ‘woman of the night’ who was expressing discomfort regarding her…
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Subterranean Terror And Adventure
I’ll admit it: I’m a sucker for a story or novel set somewhere beneath the earth’s surface. I suppose I can lay this odd predilection of mine squarely on Jules Verne’s doorstep. After all, what kid, especially a young boy, hasn’t read A Journey To The Center Of The Earth? My first exposure was a…
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The Historian
“The difference between the right word and the nearly right word is the same as that between lightning and the lightning bug.” ~ MARK TWAIN I think I’ve made it pretty clear that I’m no longer a writer, so what am I doing administering a writing site? Well, that’s a leftover from a former life…
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