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July 4, 2021
You Can Be a Cyborg When You're Older by Richard Roberts review
YOU CAN BE A CYBORG WHEN YOU'RE OLDER is a Young Adult affectionate parody of Eighties cyberpunk. It's an interesting twist, implementing a lot of tropes that only adult readers will get and not necessarily all of them but also a great way of introducing the genre to people who wouldn't normally be familiar with it. It also takes a number of pot shots at the sillier ideas in the world of neon, rain, androids, and street samurai. As a fan of both cyberpunk and Richard Roberts' PLEAS...
July 3, 2021
A Nightmare on Elk Street is now available on Audible!
Hey folks,
I am very pleased to announce that the third and final BRIGHT FALLS MYSTERIES novel is now available for purchase in audiobook form! The adventures of Jane Doe have always been close to my heart but I've got an especially big love for Arielle Delisle's take on the character.
From the Best-Selling Author of The Rules of Supervillainy :
Jane Doe has settled into her new role as the Shaman of Bright Falls but that doesn't pay the bills. With her boyfriend off chasing his evil father, J...
July 2, 2021
The Shotgun Arcana by R.S. Belcher Book Review
The SHOTGUN ARCANA by R.S. Belcher is the sequel to THE SIX-GUN TAROT that I very much enjoyed. It once more returns us to the town of Golgotha, Nevada where the town undertaker is a mad scientist and the Sheriff cannot die. I very much was interested in this book and picked up immediately after finishing the first. I was not disappointed but I do have some minor complaints about the book.
The premise is that the events of the first book have passed but things have not entirely gotten ba...
June 28, 2021
The Bright Falls Mysteries Saga is now available!
Hey folks,
I'm pleased to say that the BRIGHT FALLS MYSTERIES SAGA is now available. A collection of the three novels detailing the adventures of Jane Doe, shifter detective! Jane is one of my favorite characters and I had a huge amount of fun making I WAS A TEENAGE WEREDEER, AN AMERICAN WEREDEER IN MICHIGAN, and A NIGHTMARE ON ELK STREET.
Each book follows Jane Doe as she attempts to unravel a deeper layer of the corruption and secrets of her small town as well as its evils. It'll be a hard road ...
The Six-Gun Tarot by R.S. Belcher Review
SIX-GUN TAROT is a book that I wished I'd written, which is one of those praises that only writers get to throw out or would-be writers (or anybody) but it still has a lot of meaning. Basically, it has everything I love in a novel from the Wild West to monsters to antiheroes to the Cthulhu Mythos (but set up against supernaturals of Heaven and Hell). They even manage to put some nice social commentary in the book about race relations and homophobia.
The pre...
June 19, 2021
Bulletproof Witch: Beginnings by F.J. Blair review
BULLETPROOF WITCH: BEGINNINGS (Book 1-4) by Francis James Blair is a collection of the first four novels of the Bulletproof Witch series. I know, what a surprise. I really enjoyed this book collection, which is on the lighter side of reading with each book being just under two hundred pages and very easy to finish in a single day. As such, I encourage readers to just buy the collection and read it as a single volume rather than picking up each individual one.
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June 16, 2021
Dead Acre by Rhett Bruno, Jaime Castle, and Roger Clark review
DEAD ACRE is an audiobook is written by Rhett Bruno (The Roach) and Jaime Castle (Sidekick) while narrated by Roger Clark (Arthur Morgan, Red Dead Redemption 2). It's an exceptional pedigree as I love the work of all three individuals. It's a short work of about only three hours long but it's also free with my Audible subscription so I'm hardly going to complain about its length vs. price. The premise is a outlaw gunslinger is gunned down after turning on his gang due to what's impl...
June 6, 2021
6/6/2021 Writing Update
Hey folks,
It's time again for an update about what exactly I'm currently working on and thought you guys would appreciate an update. We've got plenty going on and quite a lot of it good. So, here's what I have been up to!
Recently Released
A Nightmare on Elk Street (Bright Falls Mysteries #3)
The final Jane Doe novel is now available! Jane has been hired by Lucien to serve as security on his latest money laundering scheme: horror movies starring real monsters. Most of which whom have attractive h...
June 2, 2021
Worldbuilding #5: Cthulhu Armageddon
Worldbuilding Posts
1. The Supervillainy Verse2. The Lucifer's Star Universe
3. The United States of Monsters
4. The Rules of Vampires
5. Cthulhu Armageddon Verse
How Cthulhu Armageddon came to be
Cthulhu Armageddon is a special case of world-building because it's not completely my world. Instead, it is an adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's cosmology created in the 1920s until his death in 1937. H.P. Lovecraft was an early believer in "open source" writing and often cross-pollinated with other others a...
May 29, 2021
Another 52 Deadlands plot hooks
The first one of these was so popular I decided to do a second one. Basically, 52 plot hooks for the Deadlands tabletop role-playing game.
1. Locals find a plant that seems to cure any wound, or at least, make them survivable. They're convinced they've found the secret to immortality. Unfortunately, the plant only zombifies flesh exposed to it, leaving the applied area dead, but functional. Repeated exposure to the plant will eventually turn someone into a flesh-eating ghoul.
2. See #1. The g...
