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Visions of the Mutant Rain Forest : By Robert Frazier and Bruce Boston: Crystal Lake Publishing, 2017, 245 pages. In an undefined fu...

HATEFUL THING When life struck its first blow, he retreated before it. But blows never stop at one. So he kept retreating until...

Wow, I haven't posted her since February 10. My blog seems to be dying almost in spite of myself. Well maybe that's because not a l...

I was very sorry to hear that Edward Bryant died on Friday, February 10. Ed was a very fine writer of both SF and horror. He was often assoc...

Despite my best intentions, time gets away from me. We’ve got two job searches going on in Psychology this semester and I’m on both sub co...

To celebrate the new year, there's a sale/promotion going on today in Heroic Fantasy that I wanted to mention. One of my own pieces is i...

I saw this “ten albums that have stayed with me or influenced me as a young person” thing going around facebook. It’s interesting . My situ...

Well school is back in session. Classes started Monday. That means, for the past few days, my writing has been nearly at a standstill. When ...

For each reading year, I tend to set a kind of general goal, knowing that I don’t intend to make it a hard and fast rule. In the past, for ...

Wish I had something profound to say for my first blog post of 2017. 2016 was not a very good year for me, but it was definitely better tha...

I got this idea from Patti . Here’s ten of my favorite reads from 2016, in no particular order other than the one I read them in. David...

1. Writing is never wasted. Sometimes I just write individual scenes involving characters or settings, without really trying to make them a...

Well, I intended to get a post up about Gods of Talera sooner but then final exams came in and everything else went out the window. So...

A few years ago, Shauna Roberts, a fine writer herself, told me that she had enjoyed the Talera trilogy but was hoping sometime t...

Well, after many delays due to the death of Robert Reginald, my original editor at Wildside/Borgo Press, the next two books in the Talera s...

You think you had it tough. I grew up in the middle of the woods. When I told my dad I wanted a set of Lincoln logs, he handed me an ax an...

Not sure what is wrong with me of late. Life in general has been pretty good so I don't have that as an excuse. School was very busy the...

  Dreams 11-11-2016: Weird how some nights I remember my dreams very well and other nights not so much. Last night was a good one. I h...

I’ll be doing a signing this coming Saturday, November 5 th , at 2 nd and Charles Bookstore in Covington, Louisiana. The address is: 401 H...

The Puppet Masters, by Robert A. Heinlein, 1951, New American Library I've read quite a lot of Heinlein's early work but th...