Oddball pulp and paperback covers
I love cover art, particularly from the days when the covers worked to reach out and grab you to make you buy them. But sometimes the effort to become interesting …
Category: Fantasy
Beowulf met Dracula? That would have made English class much cooler!
Edit Post When Marvel launched Conan the Barbarian in 1970, it was a game-changer. Roy Thomas had seen fan letters asking for a Conan book and he knew there was …
Down these magic streets a man must go: Lovecraft, P.I.
When my DVD player/VCR died a while back, that left my VHS tapes more or less orphaned. Sure, I could get down my backup VCR and swap it out with …
Me, movies and movie books
So last week I signed a contract with McFarland Publishers for a book, due next year, on Alien Visitors (working title): ET invaders, alien/human romance, friendly aliens, alien superheroes, aliens …
What I Like About You: Cookie And The Kid
Cookie And The Kid is a kids’ comic that brings back the joy of reading comics.
Ursula Le Guin as a YA writer
Taking a cue from a fellow AJS-er, I consider various books by my favorite author, Ursula K. LeGuin, as a literary on-ramp for younger readers.
Let’s look at some pretty book covers, shall we?
Edo’s September post mentioning Lin Carter made me think, as talking about Carter often does, of his work editing Ballantine Books’ Adult Fantasy series back in the 1970s. Ian and …