In keeping with my goal of keeping you all informed about every little detail of the creation process — which you readers probably don’t care about but my writer followers might — I had to create a Flash ad for The Darkening…
Modern man has a wide variety of storytelling mediums, including film, long form television, novels, and video games. Having created over a dozen hit video games and written two novels I look at some of the similarities and differences.
With the new year comes more Ultimate Pizza (see here for the whole series). In case you missed it, this is the totally hand crafted gourmet pizzas we cook at home.
The hardcover proof came in yesterday and it looks awesome! Now I just have to get it up on Amazon. As it’s printed via LightningSource this might take a few days. And I’m also running a giveaway of twenty free books…
Part of this show’s strength is the standout character writing and acting. Season 3 starts out building this character driven momentum and then races through the second half to end with… literally… a bang.
I want to give you all warning that the price of my novel, The Darkening Dream, is going to rise shortly to $4.99. The hardcover is almost ready and I’m about done with the introductory period. So grab it now!
Sam’s by the Beach is one of our favorite local places. Normally, Chef/Owner/Host Sam serves up a modern French fare with tastes of the middle east and Asia. He’s a native of Damascus and his mother comes to town once a year to cook a traditional Syrian dinner. I love really well done traditional food so I was excited to try this out.
This new YA time travel novel has a bit of buzz and I read it because of the superficial similarities to my second novel, Untimed. Both are YA time travel, both have a male protagonist but that’s about where it ends.
Celestino Drago and his brothers have a bit of a mini Italian culinary empire here in LA with a number of different restaurants and concepts. Drago is the flagship restaurant of the empire, and its most formal.
The The Darkening Dream’s hardcover mechanical came in and I submitted a proof. This is the third version of the book, the e-book and the trade paperback already being for sale.
This is certainly not your everyday read, although it’s certainly a good one. Set in 1861, the protagonist is Sir Richard Francis Burton, the explorer, not the actor. But then enter, among other things, Spring-Heeled Jack, crazy time traveler, and a host of steampunk altered villains including a double-brain grafted Charles Darwin and an Iron Golemized Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
In constructing The Darkening Dream I wanted a meta-story that at the high level, played off conventional tropes. Broadly, a cabal of ancient supernatural beings has sent one of their number to recover an artifact needed to destroy the world. But as preposterous as this scenario is, I also wanted to ground it in real history and legend. Read about how…
The bacon sundae! Yes, it’s true. A scoop of caramel ice cream and a scoop of verve coffee ice cream with bourbon carmel sauce, candied bacon, pecan crumble and whipped cream.
I updated three of my regular restaurants with additional meals, dishes, and photos. These are all great places.
She reads minds. He controls minds. Together, they might get out alive.
Continuing our brief Palm Springs foray we decided to check out a classic dining destination. And classic it was, so much so that it almost seemed like a 50-60 year time warp.
I’ve official “sold” all 100 tickets in ROUND ONE of the Naughty Dark Contest and randomly selected a winner! Plus, there’s been another special prize winner in the meantime.
HBO has pushed out another “behind the scenes” that features filming in Croatia.
I got the latest proofs back from CreateSpace for my novel, The Darkening Dream, and they are looking great. While there are perhaps a few little tweaks possible to make them perfect, the presses are ready to roll, so I turned it on.
