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April 25, 2022
Interview and review of A MAN NAMED BASKERVILLE at FanFiAddict
The final stop of the A Man Named Baskerville tour is at FanFiAddict, where they’ve graciously published an interview and book review.
The is wonderful and offers a lot of grist to consider:
Having a villain as a protagonist is a bold choice. I found myself almost rooting for Baskerville as he continued to make questionable choice after choice. I was still in his corner after LITERALLY MURDERING PEOPLE. I don’t know what that says about me as a pers...
April 21, 2022
West’s Disease and “Sadly, Porn”
W. H. Auden
, Dan Strange (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Allow me to state this up-front: I’ve not read Edward Teach’s Sadly, Porn. Scott Alexander of Astral Codex Ten (ACX) has, though, and in response wrote a rather lengthy and discursive review, as well as a follow-up on the comments it elicited. At this moment, most of my understanding of Sadly, Porn comes from these sources (which I freely admit is an imperfect substitute for reading the book).
From what I’ve gathered, Sadly, Porn is a meanderin...
April 19, 2022
A MAN NAMED BASKERVILLE reviewed at Steve’s Book Stuff
Today’s stop of the virtual book tour is at Steve’s Book Stuff, which offers of :
It is not a straightforward journey, but an adventure of the wrongs done to young Roger and the criminal path they set him on. From Brazil the story continues on into Costa Rica, then to Yorkshire in England, and finally to Dartmoor and Baskerville Hall, where the events of Conan Doyle’s Hound unfold.
As the story progresses, Nelson makes sure to incorporate pieces fr...
April 18, 2022
A MAN NAMED BASKERVILLE book tour starts now
The book tour is underway! As the above graphic shows, the tour is making stops at several spots around the book-reading web. I’m working with Escapist Tours, who have been an able hand in putting together all the finishing touches.
Throughout the week, several well-known book reviewers and bloggers will be discussing Baskerville. I’ll post here as the tour stops along the way, and what these great and generous readers have to say.
If you’re curious, learn mo...
March 20, 2022
Now available: A MAN NAMED BASKERVILLE
He took on Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, and he lost. Now he wants revenge.
In 1888, Sherlock Holmes slayed the spectral hound haunting the Devonshire moor, thereby laying to rest the curse of the Baskervilles once and for all. The perpetrator escaped into the night and was presumed drowned, consumed by the murky bog…
In truth, the criminal mastermind survived the night to nurse his wounds and plot his revenge against Sherlock Holmes.
A MAN NAMED BASKERVILLE recoun...
March 16, 2022
Interview at Queen’s Book Asylum
Over at Queen’s Book Asylum is a new interview discussing my cyber-noir thriller In My Memory Locked.
A sampling of the discussion:
What draws you to science fiction?
I’m drawn to the “what-if” element of science fiction. Storytelling is a kind of controlled experiment, a chance to live another life or in another time without the use of exotic technologies. Novels are rather like the Myst linking books transporting you to another age. J. Hillis Miller calls books “portable dreamwea...
March 8, 2022
Sign up now for A MAN NAMED BASKERVILLE book tour
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He took on Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, and he lost. Now he wants revenge.
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If you’re a bookblogger, Youtuber, or someone who reads and reviews books, I’m working with Escapist Book Tours for the release of my next novel, A Man Named Baske...
February 23, 2022
Coming soon: A MAN NAMED BASKERVILLE
I’d like to tell you about my upcoming novel, A Man Named Baskerville.
The germ for the book comes from a train trip across Japan where I had nothing to read save for a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories. From there I read The Hound of the Baskervilles and developed an idea I stored away inside my writing notebook:
What if I told Doyle’s original book from the point of view of the criminal rather than Dr. Watson?
I let this simple idea simmer for a few years before taking up the...
January 22, 2022
Past Present, an interactive short story
A Dreamers Travel Destination, L. Whittaker (CC BY-NC 2.0)Some of you know my day job is computer programming, but you might not know the reason I first became drawn to the infernal machines: I wanted to write video games.
One youthful goal in particular was to write an interactive fiction—another term for a “text adventure,” a type of video game that was quite popular in the 1980s. Instead of relying on graphics, sounds, and animation, it’s a game where the player reads descriptions and...
November 21, 2021
IF Comp 2021 Winner: And Then You Come to a House Not Unlike the Previous One
The IF Competition 2021 award ceremonies were held yesterday, and the winner announced: And Then You Come to a House Not Unlike the Previous One, which I reviewed earlier:
The execution is excellent. The prose and dialogue are spot-on, and the story develops organically. The shifting and blending between the “real world” and the computer world never left me confused. NPC interactions come off seamlessly.
House also took first place in the Miss Congeniality context (highest rating by ot...
