Nicholas Diak's Blog, page 30

Guilty Pleasures and other Dark Delights pre-order

The anthology Guilty Pleasures and other Dark Delights is now available for pre-order on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Guilty-Pleasures-Other-Delights-Things-ebook/dp/B07Y6RT6BY/

News Catch up: Short stories, reviews, podcasts

I'm extremely behind in updates and news. So here we go!
My review of Berserker Unbound #3 has been published at Fanbase Press: http://www.fanbasepress.com/index.php/press/reviews/item/10325-berserker-unbound-3-advance-comic-book-review
Cover art for Guilty Pleasures and other Dark Delights has been released. See below. My 200 word Double Drabble "Seamed Stocking Summoning Circle" appears in this collection. As soon as it is for sale on Amazon I'll add an entry to the Store page.


Exotica Moderne #5 is also released. I have an interview in it with the creators of the comic series Tiki Surf Witches Want Blood. The cover is awesome:


Back on September 16th, both Michele and I were guests on Hercules Invictus' Voice of Olympus program. It can be streamed or downloaded here:

https://www.blogtalkradio.com/surn/2019/09/17/voice-of-olympus
I'll be appearing on Chatting with Sherri again later this month, 1:00 pm on the 31st. Will post more info as that develops. 

Trickster's Treats #3 Kindle Pre-Order

Tricker's Treats #3, from Things in the Well, is available for pre-order on Amazon Kindle. This anthology has my short story "Journey to Agharti." Link to pre-order is: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07XX9SHYS

Review of The Lost Noble, re-publish of review at Journal Graphic Novels and Comics

My review of R. Litfin's novel The Chronicles of Royal High: The Lost Noble has been published at Fanbase Press:

http://www.fanbasepress.com/index.php/press/reviews/item/10281-the-chronicles-of-royal-high-the-lost-noble-book-review
Also, it looks like my review for the Comic Book Story of Video Games has been collected in issue 10.1 of the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics. It can be read (if you have access) here (It was originally published online back in Dec of 2017):

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21504857.2017.1403339

Berserker Unbound #2 review

My review of the second issue of Berserker Unbound has been published at Fanbase Press:

https://fanbasepress.com/index.php/press/reviews/item/10266-berserker-unbound-2-advance-comic-book-review

Review: Moon Maid: Catacombs of the Moon #1

My review of Moon Maid: Catacombs of the Moon #1 has been published over at Fanbase Press:

http://www.fanbasepress.com/index.php/press/reviews/item/10261-moon-maid-catacombs-of-the-moon-1-comic-book-review

Power-Con 2019 Coverage: She-Ra Panel

Last weekend I attended Power-Con 2019 and had a blast. My coverage of the She-Ra writers' panel can be found at Fanbase Press:

http://www.fanbasepress.com/index.php/press/item/10243-power-con-2019-inside-the-writers-room-of-she-ra-and-the-princess-of-power-panel-coverage

Note - my coverage of last year's Power-Con can be found here:

http://fanbasepress.com/index.php/press/item/9240-power-con-2018-creating-the-stories-of-filmation-he-man

Lee Murray interview on Voice of Olympus

Michele and I just conducted an interview with Lee Murray on Hercules Invictus' Voice of Olympus program. The episode can be downloaded/streamed here:

https://www.blogtalkradio.com/surn/2019/08/20/voice-of-olympus

The New Peplum Citation and Guilty Pleasures and Other Dark Delights

My book, The New Peplum, has been cited in another book! Dr. Paul Johnson's essay "Adapting to New Spaces: Swords and Planets and the ­Neo-Peplum" has been cited in a Dracula book of all places, Dracula as Absolute Other: The Troubling and Distracting Specter of Stoker’s Vampire on Screen by Simon Bacon.
I've written a flash fiction, a double-drabble to be precise (200 words!) called "Seamed Stocking Summoning Circle" which is to be published in the anthology Guilty Pleasures and Other Dark Delights from The Things in the Well publishing. The draft-cover for the anthology can be seen here:

https://thingsinthewell.wordpress.com/2019/07/31/revealing-cover-reveal/

Berserker Unbound #1 review

My review of the first issue of Berserker Unbound is live over at Fanbase Press: http://www.fanbasepress.com/index.php/press/reviews/item/10179-berserker-unbound-1-advance-comic-book-review