For those of us who really like a bit of science fiction with our fantasy (and vice versa), all 17, 500+ entries in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, 3rd ed, are now free, and searchable, online. The first edition of this tome was published in 1979 — in paper — and it won a Hugo award for best nonfiction work […]
Along Cascadia's long, fens and ponds are common, and they're always full of life—and unlife. From the fey to ghosts and the will o wisp, one never knows what one will find there, especially at night, or in the twilight hours.
Police Inspector Barbara Cole first appears in Raven's Tears and her story continues throughout the Raven & the Iris Series. In this series of shorts we go back in time to Barbara's preparations to become a police detective, and take a peek at what middle class life looks like in Cascadia. It was six in the morning, or "four bells" […]
If you were wondering what megacorporate titan was positioning itself to go head-to-head with Amazon’s Prime offerings, well, it looks like that will be Walmart, Inc. Earlier this year, Walmart and Rakuten Kobo announced a partnership to offer a variety of e-book content, reading services, and even devices through its Walmart stores as well as through development and launch of co-branded […]
This is not another post on how writers craft stories. I’d apologize, but my best estimate is that there are sixty-three hojillion posts about that on the internet right now, and a half-assed search engine is capable of turning every one of them up for you, listed however you please. What I wanted to write about this Monday morning is […]
This week, we learned that one installment in NBM Graphic Novels’ biography series “The Provocative Colette” has been made into a feature film starring Keira Knightly and is to premiere in theaters on September 21st. Congratulations to them and to Bleeker Street Media for bringing Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette’s story to a wider audience. Colette was considered scandalous to the establishment in her day, but […]
