Wow, that is an epic title. I mean, like, serious, I should have saved that for a NYTBS novel or something. Oh well, nothing says I can’t use it again, right? Anyway, I am going to exercise a bit of hubris here. Nothing so self-congratulatory than a majority of the world undergoes on a daily [...]

So, I have been quiet here for a while from a mixture of other projects and malaise, so it is time to fix that. So allow me to give a small list of what I am thankful for, and I shall riff the first two off of Carl Sagan. I am thankful to live in [...]

So, I had the wonderful opportunity to read the Towers of Midnight a few days before it actually hit the shelves. And yes, there are plenty of reviews out there about the book, and I pretty well agree with all the fan reviews I’ve read vis-à-vis tor.com, dragonmount.com, and theoryland.com. There are a few key [...]

Wow, I am being postalicious lately. Anyway, first some backstory. Couple days ago, a fellow tor.com blogger posted this, which was intended as a puff piece/diatribe on the James Cameron movies Avatar as well as a slam on “furries”. The response was hardly “oh lol, Bob, you are a funny man.” No, instead it was [...]

I just finished a book. It wasn’t the type of book I normally read (a paranormal romance, GASP), but it was good and it drew me in like any book of decent length and writing tends to. The last hundred or so pages had me sitting on my favorite overstuffed, two cats warm in my [...]