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Writing
Well, maybe not an e-splosion, whatever messiness that would entail. But, a little over a month ago, I popped three short stories up on amazon in the form of shiny new .99 cent ebooks and just sort of sat back and watched what they did. This, I’m told, is called a soft launch — you [...]
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This interview originally appeared at Black Gate Online. The great thing about interviewing Howard Andrew Jones is that it is impossible to run out of interesting things to talk about. That’s because Howard has been busy. Busy writing stories, busy preserving the legacy of an unsung founder of historical adventure, busy editing Black Gate Magazine. [...]
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Recently I wrote an essay about the dangers of too much ‘realistic thinking’ in fantasy fiction — When Realism Isn’t Real — Conan the Jazzerciser. In that article I used an example from Poul Anderson’s Conan pastiche Conan the Rebel to illustrate my point. The following post, which originally appeared at Black Gate, is a [...]
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I’ve been in reviewer overload lately, reading, taking notes, and penning reviews for the next issue of Black Gate. But, more than that, I’ve also been coordinating our crop of reviewers this time out, and thinking in terms of what exactly it is that ought to be in the review section of the magazine, not [...]
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