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The trailer just went live. (I think I sound slighly less like a coked up ferret on this one.)http://youtu.be/bpiIDXFMscs
Nice trailer, Rob. Is the cover artwork by Chas?
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She's a mermaid from a 12th Century bestiary. Not very Disneyesque, is she?And, yes, Chas designed the cover. Nice to be in bed with the art department. :)
VORTEX got it's first review the other day:
“A thoroughly engaging and enjoyable ride through some of the most horrific myths and real-life events imaginable.” ~ Scattershot Writing
http://jameseverington.blogspot.co.uk...
http://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_...New blog series. Having fun castigating the horror genre about the number of homophobic jerks who run rampant. Jeez, this seems to piss people off. (Not the reactionary goons, mind you. Just having someone mention it.)
“There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky…” ~ Percy Bysshe ShelleyThe ghosts of Halloweens past:
https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...
Just a few thoughts on the queer holiday...
For as long as Hollywood has existed, queer characters have played a special role as a sort of official other. Throughout the 1930s, gays were represented as ridiculous creatures. The lesbians seemed sexless and rigid, rarely more than a visual gag in a tailored suit, whereas the men were exclusively depicted as effeminate florists or decorators prone to hysterics. Fatuously simpering pansies (often played by Eric Blore or Franklin Pangborn), these characters were as laughably ineffectual as the comic-relief porters and maids that accomplished African-American performers like Willie Best and Butterfly McQueen were forced to portray. Thanks in part to some crusading (and risk-taking) directors, African-Americans were steadily accorded more respect on the screen, but with gays the depictions grew progressively nastier. Through the decades, gays went from jokes… to cannon fodder.
~ from Vortex
http://www.amazon.com/Vortex-Robert-D...