One of the casualties of my nascent writing career has been my table time rolling them bones behind a DM screen.  To get a minor fix, I do still enjoy a good D&D read from time to time.  Lately though, even that limited amount of delving has suffered due...

Princess Karenina never expected her honeymoon to include murdered frontier sheriffs, exiled mobsters, and murderous robots, but she never expected to spend her honeymoon married to one of the galaxy’s most stubborn smugglers.  A simple mission for the Star King’s spymaster turns ugly when she and E.Z. Sudden stumble...

The second in my on-going affair with independent comics, Lilith Dark had few hurdles to overcome.  The concept of a brave little girl getting her swashbuckle on raises a lot of red flags in my mind.  The traditional narrative of these stories has lately given way to the same...

Today the Castalia House house blog hosts my review of one of the most creative alt-history novels that I’ve ever read, The Devil’s Dictum.  It’s a darkly humorous American Fantasy sure to please both the historyphiles and the cynics, although one wonders whether the latter doesn’t always devolve into...

My recent foray into Alt*Hero comics left me with a hankering for some new hard-copy sequential art to enjoy, and one of the better purveyors of said artistic style is Alterna Comics.  They’ve done a masterful job threading the Charbdyis of fans of SJW comic publishers (Marvel and DC)...

Or, more precisely, when did I re-become a comic book fan? Like many Gen-Xers, the bright colors and heroic escapades of pre-1980 comics called to me from spinner racks in grocery stores and the last few lingering drug stores, a few of which even retained their soda fountains and...

One of my short stories found a loving home at Milhaven Press.  Specifically in this month’s new release, “Tales of Suspense“.  Milhaven has adopted a rather clever quarterly schedule for their short fiction.  Unlike the ‘everything goes so long as it’s action’ of a StoryHack, or a focus on...

Cirsova is at it again: Michael Tierney’s Wild Stars have a history in print going back nearly 35 years. In the Wild Stars, the stakes are high and the scale is grandiose. Aeons ago, a godlike being led an exodus to stars—the Wild Stars. Unbeknownst to those who remained...

I have good news for those of you who enjoyed my first full-length novel, Sudden Rescue, winner of the prestigious Happy Frog Award.  Sudden and Karenina return in their first action as members of the Star King’s intelligence service.  Sudden knows that every simple job has the potential to...

The One (Acutally Four) Box (Actually Boxes) to Rule Them All has been blooded. Check out the Castalia House blog, the best dang fantasy and science fiction blog on this or any other internet, today for a full review of how you – yes, you! – can play miniature wargames across...