Update: Here’s the cover just sent to me by the publisher. Maybe I should’ve included some maple leaves in the text… The Heron Kings’ Flight to Release May 2022 This is just a brief update on the status of The Heron Kings’ Flight, which will be my second published novel (though the first one I…
Last week I received a slim envelope from my bank in the mail. Oh, great, I thought, what is it now? Through the thin paper I could make out the words —. Crap. It’s something to do with my book. A bit of mild panic set in. Were they canceling the contract for The Heron…
Update: The zine is now out! FREE digital download from here. Dishonored is my absolute favorite game, and at my age it’s the only game I play anymore, mostly for nostalgia purposes. I love the aesthetic and the world, bleak as it is, for its art style and the completeness of the lore. The game…
Forgive the plain picture- most of my stuff is packed up in anticipation of a move that may never come… This has been long overdue, but I’ve finally got around to writing up this review for Roadside Attractions, Eric (no relation) Lahti’s smartassed, fast-paced genre-bender packed with ghosts, ghost investigators, witches, devils, and one jackalope.…
I received my order from Lockwood Swords recently. It’s a Type XVIIIb longsword, modified from the standard model 1009 by replacing the crossguard with that of the model 1006. I’ve wanted a blue sword ever since I first saw Gandalf’s Glamdring in LOTR, and I finally have one! This sword is an absolute work of…
As It Seems: A Short Story Collection. I recently took stock of all the short stories and flash fiction I had recovered the rights to after first publication, and having become exhausted with trying again and again to resell them to pro markets, I decided heck, why not just bundle them all up into one…
This is getting ridiculous. I can’t stop myself from buying antique swords! When it comes to expensive habits smokers ain’t got nothing on me. This one is an 18th-century court smallsword, probably from the continent and estimated to be from about 1730 but nothing else is sure. I got it on Ebay but it passed…
I really should say a sequel rather than the sequel, since The Heron Kings’ Flight is, like the first book, a standalone story, set about a hundred years later with all new characters. This is the story I first began to write years ago around 2006-2008 as a grad student, writing in bits and pieces…
Well here’s my latest vastly overpriced sharp and pointy purchase! It’s either my third or fourth antique sword, depending on whether you count my bayonet. This is a Model 1784 French Dragoon Sword made in 1831 in Klingenthal. This is pretty long for a single-handed saber, with a lot of reach from horseback. It has…
Thanks to the crappy weather yesterday I pretty much stayed inside enjoying thick-cut bacon sandwiches, rye & Benedictine cocktails, and messing around on Hero Forge. This is a tool for D&D gamers and other like fans to design and order their own semi-custom character models as game pieces or whatever. I’ve never played board RPGs…