What Tech Level Is Your Fantasy? - Part One
Traditionally, secondary fantasy worlds have hovered somewhere between late Medieval and early Renaissance, depending on whether the author or designer wants...
Maybe I Need To Attach A Content Warning...
The first book of the three has parental death and the second lots of animal death. Sorry, guys, just the way it worked out. Next book on my list is called...
Just Letting the Creativity Flow
It’s finally not quite the arctic here. Somebody just showed me a photo of the Baltimore Inner Harbor frozen over. This doesn’t happen particularly often,...
Highway Robbery!
Renegade Nell 1.2 “Tracks Less Well Trod” Nell commits her first act of highway robbery…stealing the stage coach and the people in it’s luggage. At least one...
"Neigh" to Trying This At Home
I’ve been watching Renegade Nell, which has some great horse action in it. Other movies, not so much. So, I decided to go through some stuff you might see in...
Echoes of Waystation
Just one this week. I’m currently working on another YA book, Dragons of Frost and Fang by Rowan Silver. It’s a bit of a tome. Review: Val Vega: Secret...
Winter?
No, the swan didn’t pay for that parking place…I finally got to look at some of the photos from my last trip to the U.K. That’s also not the swan who walked...
Horses Don't Neigh When They Run
The Acolyte 1.5 “Night” This episode has a body count. We meet Mai’s Sith master for real…including seeing his hidden face. There’s lots of lightsaber...
The Mystery of Sleep
Humans do it for 8 hours. Horses do it for 4. Koala bears do it for as much as 22 hours a day. Sleep.Most animals on this planet need it, and we still don’t...
Elephants and a trip to Mercury
Review: The Sun Runners by James Bow I’m going to start by saying I did enjoy this book, but I have three nits to pick. 1. Okay, so the Earth is in full...
Snow and Hot Chocolate
It’s been a hot chocolate kind of week here…the storm wasn’t that bad (Kansas City got nailed, though), but given the quality of snow clearing around here…...
Evil Twins?
Agatha All Along 1.7 “Death’s Hand in Mine” This is the tarot episode I was told about. From my knowledge of tarot, they got it pretty right. My knowledge,...
When Did Humans Start Breeding Mules?
The “humble” mule is living technology. An intentional hybrid between two related species that, ideally, gets the best traits of both. Mules tend to be...
Is it real life or...
Review: It’s Real Life by Paul Levinson This is an expansion of a short story. Here’s where I confess one of the ways in which I’m a bad Brit. I’m not a huge...
Welcome to 2025
Book four is out! Ebook and paperback, and I will hopefully have copies for Farpoint. Book five is finished. I just handed the blurb over to my cover artist...
Witchy Stuff!
Doctor Who: Joy to the World “And even in your world, that is not what a star is, only what it is made of” – Aslan, the Dawn Treader. The Christmas special...
“Ritual Purposes” – How We Misunderstand the Technology of the Past
My degree is in archaeology. It’s remarkably useful for a science fiction writer, because at its heart is the intersection between culture and technology and...
A Selection of Strangeness
Review: The Catalyst by Nat Bickel I’d call this paranormal romance, but the fantasy elements are honestly pretty light. It mostly reads like a contemporary...
Happy New Year
My standard New Year’s blessing is this: May 2025 be better in all ways than 2024. I know quite a few people for whom that is a sadly low bar. Seems that...
What Have You Done, Wanda?
WandaVision 1.7 “Breaking the Fourth Wall” Or rather, the wall around the Hex. Hello, Photon. I’ve been waiting to meet you. Hello, Agatha. I was wondering...