You Have Been Warned..!

So back before I was writing novels (when I was writing technical manuals, lots of web copy and other weird ghostwriting projects) I did a video podcast called Flying DVDs Of Death with my buddy Jeff Wheat. We were kind of a manic DVD review show… at first we were going to just do martial arts movies, since we meant at the ol’ kung fu school. but really quickly we decided to expand our boundaries into the “cinema of asskicking.” That meant we reviewed whatever caught our attention from hardcore, old school Shaw Brothers kung fu movies (like anything with the word “Shaolin” in the title) to ‘60s Japanese gangster films (Tokyo Drifter is so awesome) to things people never saw coming (like Home Alone, which I still maintain is the children’s version of Charles Bronson’s Death Wish movies). Some people loved us. A few hated us. By and large, though, most people didn’t care about ‘90s Hong Kong crime films and samurai flicks as much as me and Jeff did!

Still, the show helped build a sense of community and I meant some folks who I still talk with today. I kind of miss that. I was reflecting during a recent 4 hour drive that I wish I had a bit more interaction with the folks reading my books and fantasy/science fiction fans in general. I want to talk about stuff beyond my own books. Heck, I want to talk about everything else going on in SF&F that isn’t my books (which are hardly major players in the SF&F universes!). So I decided to return to video podcasting. I have started the Swords And Rayguns YouTube Channel… there isn’t anything up yet, but you have been warned!