Interviews and Reviews

Interviews

Heroic Fantasy Quarterly
Part 1 - introduction; how the editors met
Part 2 - size of each issue; submission guidelines
Part 3 - being an editor; the appeal of heroic fantasy

Questions asked of me regarding writing and craft:
What I enjoyed most about writing a book / what is most difficult
7 lessons I've learned about creative writing


Opening Salvos

The opening paragraphs of books I've read, and a little commentary
I read far more books than I discuss here, but this list will grow.

In a Dark Wood by Michael Cadnum
Old Man's War by John Scalzi
The Queen of Bedlam by Robert McCammon
Field of Blood by Eric Wilson
Some Danger Involved by Will Thomas


Reviews - Magazines

Heroic Fantasy Quarterly - Issue 1
Heroic Fantasy Quarterly - Issue 2
Heroic Fantasy Quarterly - Issue 3
Heroic Fantasy Quarterly - Issue 4
 

Reviews - Books

at the library (c2014, KB)
The Last Principle - Marissa Shrock

Skin - Ted Dekker
Gentlemen's Blood - Barbara Holland
Across the Face of the World - Russell Kirkpatrick
Broken Angel - Sigmund Brouwer (1, 2, 3)
The Personifid Invasion - R.E. Bartlett
Hero, Second Class - Mitchell Bonds
Summa Elvetica - Theodore Beale
Beyond the Reflection's Edge - Bryan Davis
Shade - John Olson (1, 2, 3)
The Resurrection - Mike Duran
The Telling - Mike Duran (1, 2, 3)
The Realms Thereunder - Ross Lawhead (1, 2)
The God Hater - Bill Myers
Venom and Song - Wayne Thomas Batson and Christopher Hopper (1, 2, 3)
The Charlatan's Boy - Jonathan Rogers (1, 2, 3)
Lost Mission - Athol Dickson (1, 2, 3)
The Door Within - Wayne Thomas Batson
The Saga of Davi Rhii - Bryan Thomas Schmidt
The Skin Map -  Stephen R. Lawhead (1, 2, 3)
Tuck - Stephen R. Lawhead (1, 2)
Haunt of Jackals - Eric Wilson (1, 2, 3)
Offworld - Robin Parrish (1, 2, 3)
Vanish - Tom Pawlik (1, 2, 3)
The Enclave - Karen Hancock (1, 2, 3)
Hunter Brown and the Secret of the Shadow - Christopher and Allen Miller (1, 2, 3)
Cyndere's Midnight - Jeffrey Overstreet (1, 2, 3)
Dracula - Bram Stoker (1, 2, 3, 4)
The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova
The Book of Names - D. Barkley Briggs (1, 2, 3)
Blaggard's Moon - George Bryan Polivka (1, 2, 3)
By Darkness Hid - Jill Williamson (1, 2, 3)
Eye of the Sword - Karyn Henley (1, 2, 3)
Imaginary Jesus - Matt Mikalatos (1, 2, 3)
Night of the Living Dead Christian - Matt Mikalatos (1, 2)  
Société - Alexander Helas



just a list of a few of my favorite books


Reviews - Movies, TV

Pan's Labrynth / The Number 23
Robin of Sherwood
The Waterhorse
The Body
Apocalypto
A Knight's Tale
Martian Child
Hamlet