Seeking Beta Readers! Free short stories of mayhem and thievery!

I’ve got an exciting opportunity coming up here. I don’t want to say too much in case it doesn’t pan out, but I need your help! If you enjoy my writing, if you want to get a little more without committing to an entire novel, and you want to do me a HUGE favor… I’ve …

I’m not telling you what to do but GO SEE FURY ROAD NOW

Mad Max: Fury Road was great. I was smiling the whole time when I wasn’t wincing or cackling. It’s fun, it’s exciting. It drops you face-first into a fully developed, vast, terrible world and doesn’t stop till the credits roll. More importantly, though, Fury Road takes us away from the remakes and reboots. It’s a …

Review – North American Lake Monsters

North American Lake Monsters, by Nathan Ballingrud Dark tales, some haunting, some disturbing, some hopeful. These stories are of human monsters and the monstrousness of us, in us; the others, the monsters outside, often are the less horrific. You’ll go places you’d rather have avoided, but come out the better. Some of these will stay …

Review – The Left Hand of Darkness

by Ursula K. Le Guin 5/5 This is a beautiful book, beautifully written. A lot’s been said already by other reviewers, so I won’t go into that. This isn’t what you expect, if you’re unfamiliar with Le Guin and with a more thoughful style and speed of scifi. It’s extraordinarily political, heartbreaking, hopeful, and very, …