(A Gibbering Fool Presents) Everything’s Ruined/Nothing Works Hello my delicious sinners. You look sad. What’s the matter? Still languishing in the horror of your own samasarian nightmares? Poor you. You have my sympathies, you really do. It’s not, after all, your fault so why pressure ourselves unnecessarily with personal responsibilities? I mean, look around. […]
Today I walked my son to school like I usually do. He likes to ride a push bike, one of those balance bikes without pedals. But recently he’s begun to outgrow it. With the coming of his fifth birthday he had also been making some changes – he is very much a person who decides […]
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13 Small Press Publishers of Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror The Big Five. That’s what we call the five largest publishing companies in the US: Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, Simon and Schuster, Macmillan Publishers, and Penguin Random House. All five of them have a New York, New…
Having recently witnessed the rambling nonsense of some pseudo intellectual ideologues I was fascinated by the idea that some people simply enjoy reading word salads, not because there is anything to understand, but because it makes one feel that they are in the presence of profundity. Therefore I thought that I’d let Crow take over […]
Hey there dear readers. With the end of Easter Hols I’m kick starting things with a quick post while I get on with a short story, then some query letters and the final edits to RSR. This little segment from the novel was originally intended as a prologue of sorts, but with the needs of […]
Greetings my beloved readers. So, true to my vow to read a few more contemporary offerings, I just finished The Killing Moon. Only one problem that when I say ‘contemporary’, this actually came out in May 2012. Still, it’ll serve as something to talk about while I’m waiting out the Easter Holidays. So, what’s it […]
Last week I talked about trying to reconnect with some of the newer titles in fantasy (with a pinch of neglect for sci-fi too). Since then I’ve been adding to my list of prospective reads. But this isn’t just about the old adage ‘a writer reads’. If you’re a writer like me, then this is […]
