Originally published on Facebook 8 February 2015. Asked of me in my book reviewer function: “How much lead time do you need for a reading copy, for books to review in your column?” Okay. Here’s the math. I review four books per bi-monthly column. Sometimes I stretch to five, more rarely six, if books come […]
Originally published in separate posts on Facebook on January 2, 2013. Who’s nicer? Horror writers or science fiction writers? Well, there’s a very small percentage of self-published horror authors who are some of the most frightening human beings who have committed prose to print, because their interest is exclusively in the gore, to the exclusion of any […]
Some folks of the conservative bent are throwing public snits over Marvel’s SAM WILSON: CAPTAIN AMERICA #1, in which the current Cap, a black man, fights white supremacists. They take open offense at this, saying among other things that superhero comics are no place for politics. Now, this is shooting fish in a barrel. I […]