I was pretty excited for this story. I love me some epic fantasy, and the cover is just beautiful. The actual story however, was not as satisfying as I had hoped. Firstly, it was dedicated to the founder of Dungeons & Dragons, and as such, seems to have been written to mimic a tabletop campaign. […]

Rick Wilson thought he was in a rut when series of interruptions to his routine turned his rut into a genuine funk. Looking for a change of pace, he runs into Amber Neill, a woman looking for the Monongahela River Monster and a good time. Will a night’s diversion clear up his funk, or does […]

For the first time in… five years, I have abandoned my schedule entirely. I missed the occasional day of my writing blog, but never like what I did over the past two weeks. But moving cross country proved more time consuming that I had planned. I saw some really amazing things on the road.   […]

I was more than pleasantly surprised by Deus Ex Rand(): Misfits, demigods, and a beer drinking dog. D.J. Bodden manages to weave an entire new world into one hundred and thirteen pages. The narrator addressing me, the reader, threw me at first. I almost stopped reading on the first page. But the patter of the narration was excellent […]

A dark little piece of lovely by Lizella Prescott. Definitely not your normal retelling of Cinderella. We eshew the gentle, sweet servant girl of yore for a tale about pyrokinetic psycho. And I liked it. It’s short, but rich, and relies on taking the elements of a familiar story and giving them chilling twists. I wanted […]

A stand alone short story about a boy connected to the seasons by potentially malevolent means. While the actual writing is superb, I found the plot anemic. Hartling has a good handle on his characters’s personalities but at times their actions feel like they are done to facilitate the plot, and not organic actions of […]

There is some artwork up today, but no comic. And there won’t be a comic for about a month. This is because I am moving. I finally, finally get to say it outright: I AM MOVING!!! And not just across town. I’m moving across the country. But this does mean that some things need to […]

This short story is a prequel to a series of novels, that I haven’t read, about a computer game that actually transports you to a magical realm, but the author, Anthea Sharp, promises a stand alone story with no cliffhanger. I don’t think she quite delivered. There were scenes and details (specifically the time spent […]

A long time ago, when I was a wee novice of a writer, I knew that I needed to train myself. I needed to write daily, even if it was only writing about why I wasn’t writing. Because I also know that posting updates to your friends and family can be motivating, I started in […]