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Don’t Know Science
What do you do when you love science fiction, want to write science fiction, but don’t have a degree in any science? What do you do when you’re not the typical geek who loves nerdy stuff but never had the focus to get through college? Or struggled with a learning disability that killed that dream?…
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Life on the Flip Side
The recent passing of Jimmy Buffett – the Father of Trop Rock (and of ‘Gulf & Western’ music, as he once labeled his style in his pre-Caribbean days) – got me thinking about connections among the arts, and how one form of art can inspire another. As Negatrite said a while back, most people probably…
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Oh, the Pain! The Pain!
I blame Poe, Edgar Allan Poe, for my interest in torture. Who can ever forget that wonderful scene of immurement in “The Cask of Amontillado”? What a delicious way in which to exact revenge on those who slight you. Too bad we don’t have catacombs beneath our houses today. The practice of torture, in my…
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The Agent
At last, we arrive at the fourth face on my personal Mount Rushmore, and that face belongs to one Mr. Evan Marshall. Unlike the previous three luminaries, Mr. Marshall is not known to me as an author of fiction, though he has written some murder mysteries that I owe it to myself to investigate; see…
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What I Learned In The Pool (Of Blood)
Hey there! Hello from the wily lands of the splatterpunk subgenre. SO ripe, so fresh, so little known or understood. While I know many find this sub to be less than lovelerly, I, as a punk fiction indie author, am determined to write tales in all the punks. So splatterpunk and I had to find…
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The Origins of Vampire Fiction
Happy October! I hope everyone has fun plans for Halloween. In keeping with the season, I thought I’d spend a little time exploring the origins of one of the season’s classic monsters, the vampire. Now, vampires have their origins in folklore and legends from around the world. Sometimes it’s hard to separate an oral legend…
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Horrotica for Prudes
There’s been a lot of discourse on gore of late in this blog, but not much about sex. Maybe that’s because it’s a ‘touchy’ subject (pun intended)? It certainly appears to be so in the world of book marketing, in my experience, and that’s what I’m taking exception to today. To my knowledge, there’s really…
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Gore Revisited
Or, The Pale Blue Dot and Existential Dread Last month I posted why I don’t write gore. You can read it here. Four excellent comments were posted and I decided that rather than reply to each one individually, I’d reply to the thoughts that were expressed in a follow-up post. So here we go! It’s…
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The Bouncer
Welcome back to my series on the writers who most influenced my style. Today I’m going to discuss the third face on my personal Mount Rushmore, R.A. (Robert) Salvatore. Robert writes the Drizzt Do’Urden saga, a series of 53 novels written between 1988 and today. Two of them are spin-offs focusing on minor characters met…
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