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To Beat the Devil review

    Before we begin, I should let it be known I wrote the Foreword for this book because I helped "discover" M.K. Gibson and directed him to Amber Cove Publishing. I read To Beat the Devil in its manuscript form and was asked to give a fellow writer an honest critique. Clearly, I liked it because I passed it along to Amber Cove Publishing and thought I should take the time to say why I liked it.

    There's areas I don't much care for, like the fact I think the co...

Tuskers II: Day of the Long Pig review

    The porkalypse continues with this hammy sequel to a the hog-fueled pig out of Man vs. Javelina action in the original Tuskers. If I was going to hear the basis for a series of horror novels by the normally serious dark fantasy press Ragnarok Publications then "intelligent pigs vs. humans" wouldn't have been my first choice.

    However, Tuskers proved to be a pearl among swine for its surprising ability to tell a effective horror novel about a ridiculous subj...

Dreams of Ivory and Gold review

    Dreams of Ivory and Gold is a religious horror/paranormal thriller by Kirk Dougal and published by Ragnarok Publications. It's a bit outside of my wheelhouse but I heard a lot of recommendations for it by Ragnarok Publications. Having not been steered wrong by them yet, I decided to pick it up and give it a read-through.

    What did I think? If you're a fan of things like Seven or Fallen then you'll probably enjoy this book. It's a horror novel which plays w...

Spawn of the Winds review

    Well, the submission of my novel, Cthulhu Armageddon for publication has put me in a mood to finish off the Titus Crow series by Brian Lumley. I enjoyed The Burrowers Beneath, The Transition of Titus Crow, and The Clock of Dreams but they did tend to veer from cosmic horror to classic Pulp action. Indeed, the books went completely off the rails, in my opinion, with The Clock of Dreams and only returned to normalcy with this volume.

    Spawn of the Winds is th...

"Beam Sabers, Giant Robots, and Child Pilots"

    One of the most anticipated books coming out from Ragnarok Publication this year is Mecha: Age of Steel which is the spiritual successor to their Kaiju: Age of Monsters anthology. In the Kaiju novel, they celebrated giant monsters and the robots which fought them. In Mecha, however, they're doing a wonderfully adult take on the mecha genre.

    While I didn't write any stories for the anthology, I am going to be writing an introduction for the simple fact I am...

An interview with me by the Fantastical Librarian

I had a great interview with the Fantastical Librarian and thought I would share its contents with my fans. I hope everyone will go to her website and check it out.

Here's a sample:

Let’s start with the basics. Who is C.T. Phipps?
 
C.T. Phipps is an immortal wizard from the Age of Chaos reincarnated as a huma…oh, err, I mean I’m a perfectly ordinary geek from Kentucky in his thirties. I’m the author of THE SUPERVILLAINY SAGA and the RED ROOM series by Amber Cove Publishing and Ragnarok Publ...

Prometheus review

    I was considering reviewing Aliens: Colonial Marines to finish off Alien week (which is more like Aliens two-weeks but hey, it's a blog I do for fun) but having purchased it, I determined it is one of the worst games ever made and decided to not give it any more undeserved publicity. Instead, I'm going to cap our series off with an analysis of a movie which really should be a modern-day classic but just...isn't. I, of course, mean the Alien-movie which isn't an Alien movie:...

Jurassic Park: The Game review

    It's interesting to see the transitional step from Telltale's early efforts (Jurassic Park, Back to the Future) to their mature efforts (The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, Tales from the Borderlands). Jurassic Park: The Game feels like a Freshman effort from the now-seasoned developers. There's a lot of rough edges in this game but thanks to my deciding to play through the Xbox 360 games I've missed over the years, I finally picked this one up as the final one of my last ge...

MARCH UPDATE ON THE PHIPPS HOUSEHOLD

Well, folks, things are going well in the Phipps household. Kat is almost over her flu (which I gave her, sorry) and my father is better than he's been in months.

Which is sad because it's due to getting the dialysis which he desperately needed for a long time but was in denial about. We have been giving him rides out to his place. We also got our primary dog, Treasure's, ear fixed after it had gotten a serious infection which required surgery. Still, things are looking up. I managed to assemb...

The Rising Dead review

    I've mentioned how big of a fan I am of Devan Sagliani's work. As the author of Zombies Attack!, Undead L.A., and Saint Death, he's developed quite the collection of horror stories which are usually built around a charismatic collection of leads menaced by the undead.  Devan's work takes time to develop its leads and, thus, when monsters attack you actually care about who is going to die.

    The Rising Dead is familiar territory for the author, being abo...