Updates, Changes, Projects

Friday, August 13th, 2010

Sometimes this blog gets buried underneath all the other crap I have going on in my life, and this past couple of months has definitely been one of those times. I’m a man of many projects, and sometimes I’m so busy working on those projects, I forget to take the time to write about them! [...]

November NaNoWriMo

Monday, November 30th, 2009

Sorry for the month without updates. This has been a particularly hectic month for Charlotte and I – she’s busy with schoolwork and establishing a translation business (for which I’m designing and building the website), not to mention learning to drive and occasionally substitute teaching at the International School. I’ve been busy with work, and [...]

Guest Blog – Vampires as Modern Day Heroes

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

I’m guest-blogging for the first time in my life today, over at Reading with a Bite, an independent book news and review blog dedicated to vampire fiction and more. Here are the first few paragraphs: Much ado has been made over the current “vampire trend” and its potential longevity. People are curious: why and how [...]

The Blood That Bonds is Live

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

It was a lot of work, but I’ve finally launched TheBloodThatBonds.com. The site is dedicated to promoting my novel, which I’ve released as a free eBook in a variety of formats (with more coming). Please check it out and forward it to anyone you think might be interested!

Updates on My Projects

Friday, August 28th, 2009

It’s been a bit since I talked about the various things that I’m doing, so I thought I’d give some updates. It’s been a very busy couple of months since I got to Indy (though I’ve still managed to find time to waste on a replay of Fallout 3!). Dart Publishing The personal business project [...]

Books – J.K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling My rating: 4 of 5 stars In the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling really begins to embrace the darker tone that she first begins to explore in the Prisoner of Azkaban, and the result is a book that I found more engrossing than any of [...]

Books – Hubert Selby Jr.’s “Last Exit to Brooklyn”

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr. My rating: 4 of 5 stars I really didn’t expect that it’d be so easy to find a book that’s even more depressing, startling, and at times outright uncomfortable than Requiem for a Dream, but all one really has to do is look to Selby’s earlier work, [...]

Books – Stephenie Meyer’s “Twilight”

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer My review rating: 2 of 5 stars I’m going to go ahead and guess that my review of Twilight is going to sway neither the book’s legion of fans, nor its serious detractors. In all honesty, I’m kind of torn about reviewing the book at all. Its first-person protagonist is a [...]

Books – Naomi Novik’s “Throne of Jade”

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik My review rating: 3 of 5 stars While not quite as brimming with homoerotic undertones as the first in the series, Throne of Jade nonetheless presents the reader with plenty of repressed man-dragon love to go along with a few aerial battles, a murder plot, and an interesting encounter [...]

Books – John Lindqvist’s “Let the Right One In”

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

Let the Right One In: A Novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist My review rating: 4 of 5 stars Like many Americans, I saw the movie version of Let the Right One In before reading the book, and enjoyed it quite a bit. This led me to pursue the book and, as is almost always the [...]