Time is the fire in which we burn? Why didn’t anyone tell me!
Which is to say I had no time to write a post for today. Instead, let’s look at some paperback covers, shall we? Specifically the work of Jack Gaughan who …
Category: Fantasy
Magic runs wild in the 20th century as I shamelessly promote myself!
That’s the subtitle for my new short story collection, 19-Infinity, a collection of unrelated short stories set at various points in the 1900s. It’s out in paperback from Amazon and …
A for Effort, F for Execution: William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land
I’m confident everyone reading this blog has seen at least one work of fiction where a great concept was ruined by terrible execution. William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land is …
Classic Fantasy Worth Reading: The Deryni Series by Katherine Kurtz
Wow, George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire has nothing on the Deryni series by Katherine Kurtz when it comes to killing off characters. That was the first …
Drive back the dark in 2023!
The sun cycle is tilting as it always does and light is increasing again. In 2023, let’s keep driving darkness back in all the ways that we can. While I …
The Ripper and the Baronet: my novel Questionable Minds is out
Some decades back, I wrote a novel. Okay, I’ve actually written several unpublished novels. Questionable Minds was my fifth. By that point I’d gained enough experience that when I looked …
A little thing that drives me nuts
So I just finished Jane Yolen and Adam Semple’s The Last Tsar’s Dragons. It’s a story of events leading up to the Russian Revolution, seen through the eyes of Tsar …