Walter Rhein's Blog, page 24

Words with Robert Collins, Author of "The Sagas of Surgard the Traveler"

Can you tell us a little bit about "The Sagas of Surgard the Traveler?"
The book is a collection of short stories I sold over several years involving Surgard the Northerner. Surgard is a sort-of Viking who's told by his god to go out and find new stories for the god to tell. Naturally, in doing so Surgard ends up getting involved in all sorts of adventures. The stories make fun of various

Words with Thom Reese, author of "The Demon Baqash"

Can you tell us a little bit about "THE DEMON BAQASH?"
The protagonist, Trent Troxel, was humiliated, defeated. He left his position amidst scorn and scandal. Now, after nearly a year of rebuilding his life and reestablishing trust with his wife, he's confronted by the one who just might have been the cause of it all. Trent comes face-to-face with the demon Baqash. Initially he doesn't believe

Shells Chats with Author Dorothy Davies

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Shells Chats with author Marcus Smith

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Awesome Review of "The Bone Sword" at Green Gates

Joel Gates over at "Green Gates" just left a link in my comments for this totally awesome review of "The Bone Sword."  I'm really pumped about this review because it's so sincere and it also seems to indicate that I succeeded in at least some of my goals while I was writing the book.  I've said it before and I'll say it again, "The Bone Sword" is meant to be a rollicking, take-no-prisoners,

Shells Chats with author Brian Rosenberger

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Words with Shells Walter, Author of "Dead Practices"

What's your background with writing?
I've been writing since I was 11 years old. I started with poetry as a way to deal with some emotional issues when I was young. It was often dark and had grabbed some people's attention. Later on I moved to short stories, screenplays, novels and novellas. I fell in love with the Horror genre at that age as well, reading Poe and Lovecraft, and of course later

Revisiting R.A. Salvatore's "The Crystal Shard"

The other day I had a strange impulse to revisit R.A. Salvatore's "The Crystal Shard."  I'd originally read this book back in 1988 when it was first released.  I was still in grade school back then, and my method of picking out books was pretty heavily dependent on the cover.  "The Crystal Shard" had a Larry Elmore cover, and I'd especially liked his work from the Dragonlance series.
I can't say

Shells Chats with author and publisher Chris Bartholomew

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Great Review at the Innsmouth Free Press (the names Tolkien and Martin are mentioned)

Merry Christmas!

Here's a great review that I just discovered over at the Innsmouth Free Press.  It's more of a synopsis than a review, but I'm glad that they mentioned me in the same breath as George R. R. Martin and J. R. R. Tolkien (I need to stick a few more R's in my name by the look of it eh?).
If you're into digg, you can digg this story here!  (Let me know if you do that so I can put you