Me… yet again Good afterevenmorn, Readers! I made an attempt this past fortnight to return to social media. As a small author, it’s really important to make attempts at getting seen if I have any hope of selling my books. Social media is on…
With a tod being a fox, fox-hunting in the family lineage increases the probability of good mystery writing. I suppose that follows, as wiley as foxes are supposed to be, and given that fox hunting was mostly a sport for the rich who would
Charles, thanks so much for highlighting The Fall of the First World and my horror novels. I’m proud of all of them and put a lot of work into them. Yes, “literary” is the tone or element I go after in a number of my books that don’t fit ea…
Ended up getting a whole education on suspenders/braces through the links on this article. H- and X-braces need to be more widespread than they are, now, given that men come in a variety of shapes, and not all of those shapes can find the p…
“You’re the second guy I’ve met within hours who seems to think a gat in the hand means a world by the tail.” – Phillip Marlowe in Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep (Gat — Prohibition Era term for a gun. Shortened version of Gatling Gun) Pul…
In reply to John ONeill. John, I think we may be talking past each other a little. I never argued that *Battleborn* should be “for men only,” nor that women should be excluded as readers or contributors. My point was about **orientation, no…
Good fiction is good fiction, whatever the gender of the author (or characters). Ignoring those who hold up half the sky also runs the risk of alienating half the potential readers, or even the majority of potential readers, considering who…
I enjoyed this article, and I really love seeing serious discussions of sword-and-sorcery fiction. Kudos to Cynthia Ward for making some solid, valid points about swird-and-sorcery fiction and the attitudes that often surround it, while giv…
Fashions of the week in March of 1923.This post is the third in a series reflecting on the world of 1923, and the 1920s generally, as a background to early issues of Weird Tales. Imagine that you’re an American in 1923, and you’re taking a
In reply to Byron. I plan on commenting on KEW’s sort of continual pushback on the so-called “end of horror” prophecies. What there ever a real “horror boom”?
In reply to K. Jespersen. K — I never HEARD of this book, but it sounds marvelous! I just spent ten minutes pouring over the sample pages on Amazon, and I immediately added it to my cart. Thanks for the tip!
Battleborn magazine, issue 1 (Iron Age Media, , May 31, 2026). Cover by Samuel Dillon This is a man’s, man’s, man’s world — James Brown One blustery Maine spring day, I blew off class to spend an hour hanging out with a friend in the math d…