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 Okay, I’ve actually written several unpublished novels.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 …
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 …
My list of NYCC 2022 attending panels is the exact opposite of what it usually is. In years past, my most frequent stop is Artist’s Alley to discover new-to-me artists …
Ever since I first read Marvel’s short-lived Golem series in Strange Tales, golems have fascinated me. I’m not sure what intrigued me about them, though it definitely wasn’t the series’ …
Or at least changed my taste on books (this is another repost from my own blog, from 2013) Someone once described the late specfic author Lin Carter as fantasy methadone. …
When I read Harlan Ellison’s Jeffty Is Five back in 1978 (in Terry Carr’s collection The Year’s Finest Fantasy), it blew me away. When I reread it a few years ago (this …
Okay, actually it’s an old story. I wrote Dark Satanic Mills more than a decade ago, sold it to Tales of the Talisman and reprinted it a couple of years ago in my …
