January Reading
Being unemployed has been tremendous for my leisure time. Here's what I've been reading and listening to this month. (Affiliate links included) Richest Man in Babylon by George S Clason Interesting Times by Terry Pratchett Start by Jon Acuff Surely You Can't Be...
NEW AUDIO! Dads vs Zombies: Year 2 Audiobook
It’s here. The audiobook for Dads vs Zombies: Year 2 is now available on Audbile! Phil Thron returns to narrate the further adventures of John, Chris and Erik and does an amazing job as always! Listen Now! The world looks different a year...
Dads vs Zombies: Year 2
Dads vs Zombies: Year 2 is available now! EBOOK PRINT The world looks different a year after the dead rose from their graves. Survivors live in walled enclaves while the zombies roam freely in the wasteland. John, Chris and Erik have made their home in...
Rosie the Riveter and Friends
My daughter was doing a paper on women in the workforce during WWII earlier this week and we discovered that Rosie the Riveter, while the most famous, was only one of several characters created to encourage women to seek factory work. I always thought of Rosie as a...
The Future of the F Word
The F word has been around for almost 800 years. But science fiction writers seem convinced we will get tired of it in the near future and replace it with something that sounds almost exactly like it. Sure, words fall out of disuse. But the F word can be a noun, a...
Retirement of the Ninja
If you follow me on Facebook, you’ll know that I wasn’t a big fan of the new Willow series. But I am definitely not against sequels to 80’s franchises. I enjoyed Cobra Kai. I liked Top Gun Maverick. Ghostbusters: Afterlife was a great continuation to the original and...
A Whiff of Danger
The problem with having a true everyman protagonist is finding plausible reasons to get them into trouble on a regular basis while equipping them the skills to get out of it. That’s why most adventure story heroes are former military, law enforcement or some kind of...
Writer by Night
Some big changes are happening around here. I’m going back to work. That’s right. A real job like a real grownup. An opportunity presented itself that I couldn’t turn down, so I’ll be going back to a day job for the first time in almost a decade. But what does that...
THE CHECK IS IN THE MAIL
"If we're not back by dawn, call the President." - Jack Burton One of the greatest characters of all time. The buffoon that doesn’t realize he’s the sidekick and not the hero. His abilities didn’t always keep up with his mouth, but his courage never waned. And...
Writing About Music
I wish I could write about music. I love music. There are very few moments in a day when I’m not listening to something. I've played music. I've been in a band. A band that played in front of people. Not a lot of people. But I've never felt that I understood music...
Book Darts
These things are pretty cool. Little tin arrows that clip onto a page so you can mark a line. A post it tab or a scrap of paper would do, but a little refinement never hurt anyone.
Random Book from the Shelf: Make Love the Bruce Campbell Way
Bruce Campbell needs to write more books. Not more memoirs. More novels. I think this one was generally ignored because it felt like it might be a just another autobiography. But Make Love the Bruce Campbell way is one of the funniest books out there. Like I said,...
Random Book from the Shelf: The Icarus Agenda
The Icarus Agenda was the first Robert Ludlum novel I read. My uncle had given me the paperback and I tore through it. I don't remember most of the specifics. I'm sure there was a revolver with silencer and a "big car with a powerful engine." And there was undoubtedly...
Random Book from the Shelf: Where Eagles Dare
I’ve got several of Alistair MacLean’s books on my shelf: Guns of Navarone, Force 10 from Navarone, The Partisans, When Eight Bells Toll, Ice Station Zebra and a few others. While I enjoy his books, he has the very rare distinction of being one author where the movies...
Pinch me, Pikachu
Dragon Con was unbelievable. This was my first time to attend and my first time to have the opportunity to appear anywhere. It was surreal. That’s the best way I can put it. I got to sit on panels next to authors that people have actually heard of and talk about how...
My son is also named Bort
The toy companies have got me almost figured out. They keep hitting me right in the nostalgia. Look at these new Simpsons toys. There’s a Homer in the line. And a Moe. But the others are Poochie and the theme park robots from Itchy and Scratchy land that run amok a la...
Maybe one more edit
I’m pretty much your standard grumpy old man when it comes to the changes Lucas made to Star Wars. Yay! Enhance Mos Eisley. Yay! The Millenium Falcon taking off. Why does Boba Fett sound different? That’s not the right song! I didn’t sign on for this! I can admit that...
Project: Thunder Moose
Canada had a missile program in the early 50’s. The name of that program was Project Velvet Glove. As an attempt at subterfuge, I get it. With a name like that, any foreign operator would naturally assume it was a secret program to develop new mitten technology. But,...
Coffee for Writers
Coffee for Writers As a service to my fellow authors, copywriters, bloggers, late night night novelists and blue-collar creatives, I have taken it upon myself to test many brands of coffee and report back to you my findings. For this service, I ask nothing, but know...
Tiny Texas Tradition
I’m not quite ready for a full-blown midlife crisis. But I am ready for a change. We’ll start small, with the things I carry around each day. CRKT Minimalist Bowie I picked this minimalist bowie up from CRKT because I thought would be good to have while paddling...
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