A Far Out Fantastic Site

Credit: Pixabay.com The last couple days in publishing my work have both been great and frustrating. My Latest Article On Sci Fi/Fantasy Books and TV I said a while back that I sold an article to an online science fiction/fantasy magazine called BuzzyMag but that it may be a while before they actually publish it. Well the wait is over! The article is now live. “It’s alive! It’s alive!” (as Dr. Frankenstein in Universal’s Frankenstein shouts.) It covers one of the newest trends in sci fi and fantasy television: TV series based on books in the two genres. With TV shows like The Expanse , American Gods and The Man In the High Castle , that are all based on best-selling or award-winning books, there are many more TV shows such as these to come in the near-future. I discuss those as well as past and current shows based on novels in my article entitled “TheTop 10 SF/F TV Series Based On Books” at BuzzyMag . Feel free to leave any comments either there or here. ...

I’m submitting my complete file for the print edition of “Circa Sixty Years Dead” early next week. Hopefully it will be available for purchase by Wednesday. I’ll post an update for the release on my Facebook page and definitely here next week. As busy as a weekend it has been, I’m squeesing in some time for a summer sci fi flick— Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets . Valerian I’m always looking for the Star Wars -type blockbuster each summer and it looks like Valerian could be it. In fact, according to TheHollywood Reporter , it even borrows from Star Wars . However, according to the bulk of critics , it hasn’t been much of a blockbuster on this weekend of its release. But it’s definitely blockbuster-like yet with its own style and vision from its director, Luc Besson, who also directed The Fifth Element back in the ‘90s and look what became of that. It became a cult classic, and hopefully this movie will too. The reason I say that is because...

Two posts ago I gave a report of two panels that I attended at Wizard World Comic Con in Sacramento. [link] I highlighted the fiction writing advice given at these panels. One of the panels was about the Satan myth in the dark fiction genre and the term for the genre itself. I said that author Richard Kadrey talked about his Satan character in the Lucifer comic book series and that he talked some more about it in his villain creation panel later that same day. That panel is included here in part two of the report of the writing panels I attended. I had also said that the report would be divided into three posts, but it looks like I can complete it in two, so this is the final part.    A "Disco Revolution" band that I watched before attending my first panel on Saturday, Day 2 of Wizard World Comic Con in Sacramento. These guys are really heavy in keeping one of the earliest forms of electronica alive! Photo Credit: the blogger Day 2, Part II So after the ...

I know, I said last week that I would have part two of the Wizard World Comic Con report here. But the last few days have been hectic with time sensitive book promotion projects and getting the pad (house) ready for family coming from out of town that I haven't been able to finish writing the report. And to make matters worse, I haven't released the print edition of Circa Sixty Years Dead . Liar, liar pants on fire me! Actually, there's a good excuse for delaying the latter: I thought it would be a good idea to so a cover reveal for the back cover summary, which I did finish as I said I would last post, and give you the opportunity to give your opinion of it before I release the book. Your comments about how well the summary itself works will be greatly appreciated, but I'm also open to any feedback about the overall appearance of the back cover. In order to see the cover's details more clearly, simply click on the image. I'll have the rest of the con report...

Credit: Wizard World I apologise for missing last week’s post. I was busy with a special writing project that was due any day and so I didn’t have time to post anything except to my Facebook page. You can visit my Facebook page for any updates in between blog posts.  I promised you a fuller report of Wizard World Comic Con Sacramento in my last post and so that’s what I have here for you today. However, I don’t have enough time to go over all three days of the con in one post, so I’m going to break up the coverage into three parts. The con offered a lot of great events such as cosplays and panels on comic book creation, including art and writing. I’m not a costumer but I just dug seeing the people who are and that go way, way out with their apparel! And that’s a great thing. To see what I mean, check out the photos in my last post if you haven’t done so yet.  But my favourite part about sci fi and fantasy conventions is talking to the other artists an...