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November 3, 2015
IWSG November: It's a Spectrum
The first Wednesday of every month is officiallyInsecure Writer’s Support Groupday. Writers post their thoughts on their blogs, talking about their doubts and the fears they have conquered. It's a chance for writers to commiserate and offer a word of encouragement to each other.Check out the group here. You may recall from last month I was feeling pretty good and hyped about writing.
October 30, 2015
FREE STORY! (Happy Halloween!)
Joyous Samhain! In honour of All Hallow's Eve (and in association with the Trick-or-Treat Blog Hop and the Share-a-Scare Blog Hop), as promised today I'm giving away a weird and creepy story in the tradition of the season! So please don't egg my house! The big news is that this is a BRAND NEW, never before seen tale by yours truly, and you're getting it ABSOLUTELY FREE! Grab it fast,
October 29, 2015
George Cotronis Cover Art Giveaway
Published by Kraken Press, art by George Cotronis George Cotronis is currently running a competition to give away free covers on his website, and lemme tell you: Dude does awesome covers. You can see a gallery of his published works as well as premade covers currently for sale at his website www.cotronis.com. His work is weird, creepy, kinda abstract. He reminds me a little of Dave McKean,
October 26, 2015
Trick or Treat for Books (100th Post!)
Happy All-Hallow's-Eve-Eve-Eve-Eve-Eve-Eve! Ah, Samhain is in the air. Smells like cheap kid's make-up, candy and rotting pumpkins. Well, that and winter. It definitely smells like Winter is Coming, but that's a story for another day. I love Halloween. As a kid I just liked dressing up, but as I've gotten older I've been drawn more and more into the spectacle and pageantry of it. I'm at an
October 12, 2015
Happy Turkey Murder Day, My Fellow Canadians!
This is going to sound like a bad 90s stand-up routine, but what's up with Canadian Thanksgiving anyway? In the US, Thanksgiving is a huge event, celebrated by massive football games (which are seemingly equivalent in pomp and circumstance to the overthrow of oppressive regimes in other countries) and murdering fellow citizens in cattle-like stampedes over cheap electronics. In Canada we
October 10, 2015
Made to Suffer: Season 2 Episode 1
On Friday night we launched a new RPG campaign, the first in a long time. This time around we're running "Zombie-World" by AJ Ferguson, a hack of Dungeon World, which itself is a variant of Apocalypse World. Anyway, the game system is not that important for our purposes here (I'm sure I'll talk more about that on Rule of the Dice in a couple of days). Right now what I want to concentrate on is
October 7, 2015
IWSG October: Wake Up, September's Over
So another month came and went. As you may have guessed, I DID NOT win the Nerdist Publishing contract. Several cools books did win, however, and you could do worse than to check them out. I ordered all of the top 5 myself, and I'm looking forward to checking them out when they drop in a couple of months. I started the month hot and heavy, still with a some shreds of hope my book my catch on.
October 5, 2015
Star Wars Composer John Williams's First Score Was a Newfoundland Film
I'm a proud Newfoundlander, born and raised. I'm also an unabashed Star Wars fan, a film which we all know would have been very different without the classic score by John Williams. So you can imagine my shock, wonder and merriment last week when I discovered that John Williams' first professional musical score was for a Newfoundland travelogue in the 1950s. The full details are here at an
September 28, 2015
St. Stephen's High MANIFESTO Issue 1 (November 12, 1996)
Last month I told a story about how I made my first money as a writer by ripping off my high school literary magazine. It was a low point in my academic and literary career, trust me. Thinking about the story made me go back and dig up my old copies of said magazine, which sent me hurtling on a trip down memory lane. Today, I'm going to take you along with me on that trip. Buckle in. First to
September 21, 2015
Interview with Jay Lockwood, Author of "A Beast Requires"
When conspiracies threaten to plunge Aurum into civil war, the city's only hope is Deputy Constable Albicon Pine. Unfortunately, it’s his first week on the job. You're heard it many times, but I'm currently taking part in a contest on Inkshares.com in an attempt to win a publishing deal for my book. You may be surprised that mine is not the only book in the contest (there's about 325 more, to
