It’s that time of year, squiders, where I look back at what I read last year and play with stats (and then, if I have a lot of free time, I make comparisons to previous years!), and then I let
Captain Hawkins by H. Peter Alesso
Happy Friday, Squiders! Today it’s my pleasure to introduce Captain Hawkins by H. Peter Alesso. Here’s the blurb: Jamie Hawkins was living on an obscure planet in the twenty third-century when on one fateful night—his life changed forever. His heroic effort
Tie-in Fiction Friday: Star Trek #3 The Klingon Gambit
My mother recently moved out of my childhood home to move in with my grandmother, which means I had to go through the stuff I accumulated throughout the first portion of my life and then abandoned when I went out
Let’s Talk About Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Afternoon/evening, Squiders. As you guys know, I was a major Potterphile back in the day. Still, when Harry Potter and the Cursed Child came out in July, I didn’t pick it up. There seemed to be a lot of mixed
Out Today: To Rule the Stars
Happy Tuesday, Squiders! It’s my pleasure today to announce the release of To Rule the Stars, an anthology of space princess stories. Who says fantasy should get all the princesses? Here’s the blurb: Meet the princesses. A trained diplomat, kidnapped
The Ever Fiend by Randy Ellefson
Happy Monday, Squiders! I’m pleased to introduce The Ever Fiend by Randy Ellefson. Randy’s also giving away a giftcard as part of his book blast, so look for the entry info at the bottom of the post. Only a fool
The Adventures of Kate Readalong: The Merlin Effect
Well, Squiders, here we are at the end of the “trilogy.” What I find most interesting about The Adventures of Kate is that, aside from Kate, the books are completely unrelated. There are no overlapping characters or locations. I suppose
Have We Gone Too Far?
Have you ever had a scene that is in such bad shape that it just makes you want to flail incoherently? Yeah, me too. But, in other news (I totally wrote “noises,” which I credit to my in-laws watching a
Tie-in Fiction Friday: Only Human (Doctor Who)
Doing a little better than a year and a half between posts, eh? For Doctor Who’s 50th anniversary back in 2013, they put out a collection of books, one for each Doctor, that were special 50th anniversary re-releases. It was
The Fluidity of Genre
We’ve been going through genre conventions at my storycraft meetings, Squiders. We were supposed to do all three speculative fiction genres at a single meeting–horror, science fiction, and fantasy–but we started with horror and two hours later were still happily
