I am just back from Cincinnati where I attended the GHC Midwest for the first time. Conventions like this can be grueling when you’re manning a booth on your own, but fortunately I had an opportunity to catch-up with three old friends who stopped by to help me pass the time at my booth. To each[…]
For the few who still check here in the hopes of finding news about the third book of The Wandering series, I have good news. The cover is now finished – at least the front cover. We are still working on the copy for the back cover. The editing is finished, I now have just a[…]
With the 3rd annual Realm Makers conference just around the corner – where I will once more be happy to serve on the faculty – I have a new interview posted at the webpage for the Faith and Fantasy Alliance. I have posted the link here for any who might want to go and read[…]
This post is part of a series on Ray Bradbury and his book, “The Martian Chronicles,” which will run from Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day weekend. – AND THE MOON BE STILL AS BRIGHT Well, we’ve reached what is in many ways the fundamental ‘pivot’ in “The Martian Chronicles.” In the first three expeditions,[…]
This post is part of a series on Ray Bradbury and his book, “The Martian Chronicles,” which will run from Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day weekend. THE TAXPAYER In the third, short vignette in The Martian Chronicles, we have the first overt reference to the post-atomic tension I’ve mentioned a few times already. The[…]
This post is part of a series on Ray Bradbury and his book, “The Martian Chronicles,” which will run from Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day weekend. THE SUMMER NIGHT In the second short vignette, the telepathy element of Ylla gets more play here, as Bradbury pictures an unseen connection between the people of Mars[…]
This post is part of a series on Ray Bradbury and his book, “The Martian Chronicles,” which will run from Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day weekend. ROCKET SUMMER Rocket Summer. I can almost hear the words being whispered as the artificial heat-wave from the rocket’s exhaust delivers this Ohio town from winter’s frozen grip,[…]
This post is part of a series on Ray Bradbury and his book, “The Martian Chronicles,” which will run from Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day weekend. INTRO Ray Bradbury was born in 1920 and died just recently, in 2012. He’s probably best known for Fahrenheit 451, which as I’ve said elsewhere, I see as[…]
Realm Makers Blog Voyagers – you are in the right place, even if the post below might not immediately confirm that… My son is a high school wrestler. As a former basketball player, it has been quite an experience watching his wrestling career unfold. Here is some of what I’ve learned. Wrestlers work really, really[…]
There’s an inertia that can set in when something like semi-regular blogging gets set aside for something pressing. In my case, it was the final push to finish my novel The Colder Moon before my 12/31/13 deadline. All my available time was poured into making my deadline (which I did, by the way, with a[…]