Occasionally, I check the reports on Kindle Direct Publishing, to see how many copies I have sold of things. This puts me in the group of “Authors who sit in front of their computer, compulsively hitting Refresh over and over to see their Amazon ranking like one of those perpetual motion bird toys. Peck. Peck.… Read More New Versions of Void now Available
I think the title gave it all away, but in case you’re unclear, you may download the ebook version of Don’t Touch The Dead: A Caenus the Quick Mystery for free through Monday, August 19th, from Amazon.com. Disaster has struck Duvaltry Hall. The heir to the Count of Styria has just turned up murdered in… Read More Don’t Touch The Dead, Available Free until Monday
At various times, and especially in my younger days, I would Get Into a movie, watching them over and over, on a nightly or weekly basis, because something in it is speaking to me. I don’t think I am unique in this, but it is a phenomenon I’ve observed in myself. I recently mentioned that… Read More Movies I Got Into: Casino
Publication Date is August 11th. It will be available in both ebook and paper back. It’s my first mystery story, and it’s set in the fantasy world, Cevalon, that the Tygg and Drea stories also belong to. This has been a project long in the works. I started it years ago, set it aside, rediscovered… Read More Don’t Touch The Dead, now Available for Pre-Order!
There’s two pieces of new content, so I’m smushing them together. First, New issue of Unnamed Journal. These may be acquired in the usual places, such as Gumroad, and our Patreon. Also, Amazon, if you’re into that sort of thing. But wait, there’s more! Podcast updates! Two-part podcast episode on the Japanese rock-and-roll zombie movie… Read More Shallow & Pedantic summer Update
If you’re one of our Patreon subscribers, you’ve had access to this episode of the Shallow & Pedantic Podcast for a little while. But if you’re not, why then… here it is. The habit now is to bust these episodes into smaller increments, less-than-an-hour: We are expecting to record a new episode this weekend, so… Read More New Old Podcasts: Shallow & Pedantic does the Second Dune Movie
Recently, Saturday Night Live said the quiet part out loud, trying to make fun of white Souncloud rappers as being Inauthentic: Now, I don’t have a dog in the hunt of what is and is not Hip-Hop. I don’t care that much about it. But the skit proves the opposite of the intended joke. Queen… Read More The Yeet Skirt Song is completely Valid as Hip-Hop: Why Imperial Gatekeeping Fails
One of the hilarious consequences of the almost total abandonment of the CD format, smashed between the analog resurgence of vinyl and digital moving to streaming, is that CD’s you actually can actually find (neighborhood record stores usually have shelves of the bastards) and want to buy now cost about what you’d pay for them… Read More This Week in the CD Changer: Aesthetic Extreme Makeover Home Edition
There’s a level of show-biz bullshit that’s so profoundly dense it begs to be lit on fire. When you’re talking about Bridgerton, which turns Regency Romance into Current-Year preach-lit, the temptation is the more profound. And now they’re trying to sell getting the actress naked as some kind of transgressive act, because she’s overweight. This… Read More Naked Girls Get Extra Naked – A Fisking of Bridgerton Noise
The true beast of the Pandemic has returned, and now it will devour it’s own genre. Behold, as the most popular documentary of this century destroys Fair Use: The rule of Fair Use requires that the use of a content be “transformative”, i.e., you’re using it to do something with it other than what the… Read More Tiger King Destroys Everything
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