A very quick heads-up – the omnibus of Kurt Busiek’s Conan – The Birth of the Legend is on sale for less than two bucks in digital edition through Amazon.
You can’t get a better deal.
The volume is 440+ pages.
The art is stunning.
It’s Conan.
I don’t know how long this offer will last, so hurry if you’re interested.
Who doesn’t like a good scary movie once in a while?
What better way to go through a bout of insomnia?
And this is the season for scary movies and creepy stories, so I went and finally watched an old movie that’s been on my list forever, and that only recently I got in the restored version. Because it’s a film from 1945, and it’s baffling and disquieting and a beauty to behold.
It’s called Dead of Night and you should really check it out.
And so here it is, ready to be posted to my Patrons.
The Waterfall’s Wife is a story based on a snippet I caught in a documentary a few days back, about a couple of waterfalls, in Japan, that are married according to Shinto tradition.
Nice idea for a story, I thought.
Something different, not the usual orcs in the caves sort of story.
It goes like this… Continue reading
It can be argued that Ernest Hemingway was one of those authors that turned their own life into a story they were writing and selling.
Whether it was a conscious effort or an unplanned consequence of a number of circumstances I cannot say, but it’s certain that “Hemingway” was not just a set of books, but also a style, an attitude, a lifestyle.
A brand and a platform, modern marketeers might say.
Look at all those photographs.
We don’t have as many shots of, say, Raymond Chandler or Dorothy Parker, they are not so widely circulated.
It is not surprising then if Ernest Hemingway became the subject of other people’s fiction. Continue reading
A story bounced back yesterday.
Thank you for submitting, but we won’t buy it.
Drat.
I’ve seen a few blog posts, today, on the subject of handling rejection, so here’s my two cents. Continue reading
I will admit that Tales from the Frontier is not the hottest title I ever dreamed up, but after all, the series was born in such a sideways way, I think it’s sort of OK to go with the flow. If nothing else, the title describes what’s inside the box.
To recap…
The setting took shape in a test I did to contribute to a roleplaying game sourcebook. I had a limited number of words to provide some color. I imagined a mountain area on the border between almost-Mughal-India and not-exactly-Tang-China, and took it from there. Continue reading
Karavansara 