A Far Out Fantastic Site

Credit: Wikimedia Commons Due to yesterday’s Memorial Day holiday here in the U.S., I decided to move this week’s post to today. The Book-To-Movie (BTM) review  series is going to be on hiatus a little while longer. I'm still gathering more stories and films in my library of  “To Read” and “To Watch” so I can make a lineup. Also, I'm trying to play catchup on my two latest books which I'll talk some about later. First, I want to commemorate Roger Corman who died earlier this month, May 9th. He was 98. Because he directed several movie adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe’s stories, I’ve provided a list of those movies below.  Corman was one of my favourite filmmakers of science fiction and horror. Known by many as the "King of Cult" movies, he was a leader in directing and producing B-rated movies, many of which were horror, science fiction, action/adventure and crime. Among his horror films, and the best in my opinion, were his adaptations of Poe's works. In a big ...

Credit: Pixabay In my previous blog post , I had said the newsletter, “Night Creatures’ Call” would be coming out in another week. It's now been over a week in which I apologise for.  My explanations for the delay have been writer’s burnout and others. Much of those others are due to myself trying to cram several writing projects into a limited amount of time. That time is limited by not only my day job of four days a week, but by the two-hour public transit commute each way every day. Right now, I have three projects going on: my upcoming short story collection, "Bad Apps" ; my single short story book, "The Trespassers"; and of course, the newsletter.  For "Bad Apps", I'm currently working on two short stories both of which are in the revision process. For the single short story book, I'm in the process of adding an author's bio so I can send the manuscript out for formatting. For the newsletter, I had recently been working on the Book-In-...

  It's the first Wednesday of the month and so it’s time for another Insecure Writer’s Support Group (IWSG) blog hop ! In an IWSG post, we writers bring our writing challenges and problems out into the open to share with each other and try to offer solutions. I’ve had some writing challenges these last few days, one of which actually goes back a little further and has, ironically, lead me to planning a new upcoming book release that will occur before my short story collection, “Bad Apps” , comes out. It's, what I call, a pre-release book. Also, in today’s post, I'm also answering the IWSG optional question of the month about writing distractions.  IWSG Optional Question of the Month: Writing Distractions The IWSG question for May is: How do you deal with distractions when you are writing? Do they derail you? Isaac Asimov once said that if you're going to be a writer then you should learn to work through distractions, particularly noise. I’m sure that doesn't work ...