The Iron Lady and W.E. have more in common than being 2011 films about 20th Century Britain, both are well done historical biographies, and both have 21st Century “box stories” that attempt to frame the historical action. But why?
The Darkening Dream$0.99 sale and giveaway week is over and was a resounding success. It’s time to announce the winners: Grand Prize Winner: Amy Eye $100 Amazon Gift Card, a signed paperback copy of The Darkening Dream, a signed copy…
This week, Monday June 25 through Friday June 29, the Kindle version of my novel The Darkening Dream is on sale for just 99 cents! To celebrate I’m running a cool giveaway…
I have to show off this bit of geekery: A truly amusing ode to George R. R. Martin our favorite writer of extraordinary talent but glacial slowness.
Watching John Carter got me to reread A Princess of Mars. This is some serious old school pulp adventure, but I used to love that kind of stuff as a kid…
When I first saw the trailer, I wondered: What is this? How do those late 19th century western images fit in with the “other world” and alien thing? I liked the music. Somehow I felt I was supposed to know who the hell John Carter was. It took me months to find out…
I have to admit that the trailer for this film had me cautiously excited. It exhibits a certain style of fantasy storytelling that appeared cool and unique. Serious, yet referential to the source material. Visually original, but not silly. Still, I was worried…
The season finale has a lot of threads to cover, the extra long “previously on” clip covers no less than eleven major plot lines! Amazingly, the episode manages to do a pretty damn good job with them — even when many only get one scene.
Round 2 of my byzantine Naughty Dark Contest is over and there are three lucky winners to announce!
Normally I take Marvel super hero movies with a grain of salt, but considering the buzz around Avengers and the fact that it was written and directed by Joss Whedon, I was fairly excited…
With Episode 19, Blackwater, the normally highly fractured narrative of the show lasers in and focuses on a single place and night: The attack on King’s Landing by Stannis and its defense…
I’m excited to announce that The Darkening Dream recently won some International Book Awards!
One wonders if Tim Burton ever works with anyone other than Johnny Depp. But the issue here isn’t really Depp’s deadpan Deppist performance, which is certainly one of the better things about the film. It’s basically in the meta creative choices and the writing…
Here on the eve of battle, things are moving fast. Ten hours can hardly retell 1040 pages, so this episode packs in a lot of story in a very rapid way.
This is very much a thinking man’s thriller. It’s a slightly Momento-esque time travel film supposedly filmed for a mere $7,000!
Dave Phillips, the awesome artist I commissioned to illustrate my time travel novel, Untimed, has been quietly cranking away. A couple of weeks ago he finished the rough versions of all twenty-one images. I thought I’d use this post as an opportunity not only to show off his brilliant work, but to shed some light on the process.
The title of the episode refers to the return of Jaime Lannister, who after a five episode absence, is back with a vengeance. This is the section of the story, in the middle end, where things move very rapidly.
The upcoming Tim Burton remake reminded me that I wanted to rewatch the 1991 Dark Shadows revival. I saw some of it at release, but being a lover of all things vampire, felt it my duty to revisit…
“The Old Gods and the New.” As usual, plot lines twist and knot, but now the setup is mostly accomplished, and things move very rapidly here in the middle of the season. Plus we meet Ygritte!
Despite the cheesy “hooded dude” cover, this was a great bit of epic fantasy. It was recommended by a twitter follower and turned out to be one of the better “classic medieval fantasy” books I’ve read in recent years.