Magazine Review: Infernal Ink Magazine January 2014 edited by Hydra M. Star Disclaimer: This magazine came to me through a Goodreads giveaway on the premise that I would review it. Infernal Ink is a horror fiction and poetry magazine aimed at ages 18+. As such, it contains sex, violence, sexualized violence (Trigger Warning for rape)… Continue reading Magazine Review: Infernal Ink Magazine January 2014
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Comic Book Review: Showcase Presents Super Friends
Comic Book Review: Showcase Presents Super Friends by Various Back in the 1970s, there was a Saturday morning cartoon titled Superfriends. It featured several superheroes from DC Comics,, plus “Junior Super Friends” Wendy and Marvin, trainee superheroes with their pet Wonderdog. Each episode taught valuable life lessons to kids across America. While reruns of the… Continue reading Comic Book Review: Showcase Presents Super Friends
Magazine Review: Conjunctions: 51 The Death Issue
Magazine Review: Conjunctions: 51 The Death Issue edited by David Shields and Bradford Morrow Conjunctions is a literary journal published twice a year by Bard College. Each issue contains essays, short fiction, poetry and less classifiable writing on a given subject, with this issue being about death. Literary journals tend to have a connotation of… Continue reading Magazine Review: Conjunctions: 51 The Death Issue
Book Review: Jet Set
Book Review: Jet Set: The People, the Planes, the Glamour, and the Sex in Aviation’s Glory Years by William Stadiem Disclaimer: I received this book as a Goodreads giveaway on the premise that I would review it. My copy was an Advance Uncorrected Proof, and there will be considerable changes made to the final product,… Continue reading Book Review: Jet Set
Comic Book Review: Uptown Girl: A Long Forgotten Fairytale
Comic Book Review: Uptown Girl: A Long Forgotten Fairytale by Bob Lipski Once upon a time, in a land far away (possibly Maine), there was a cursed village. No one could leave the village, because it was ruled by the King of Birds. The villagers did not know much about their king, save that he hated… Continue reading Comic Book Review: Uptown Girl: A Long Forgotten Fairytale
Magazine Review: Out of the Gutter #7
Magazine Review: Out of the Gutter #7 (Winter 2010) Back in the day, the low-cost entertainment option of choice was the pulp magazine. It contained fast, exciting stories on cruddy paper–a lowbrow art form that is still fondly remembered by some. “Out of the Gutter” tries to be somewhat in that tradition. This is the… Continue reading Magazine Review: Out of the Gutter #7
Open Thread: RIP Aaron Allston
Aaron Allston passed away yesterday at age 53. Most of you will probably be familiar with his work on Star Wars related books. I remember him most fondly from his early Champions work. He was the editor at Hero Games who gave me my first paying work as a writer, and created the Strike Force… Continue reading Open Thread: RIP Aaron Allston
Book Review: A Wilder Rose
Book Review: A Wilder Rose by Susan Wittig Albert Disclosure: I received this book in a Goodreads giveaway on the premise that I would review it. Most of you are familiar with the “Little House” series by Laura Ingalls Wilder, about her life as a pioneer’s child. If not the much beloved books themselves, then… Continue reading Book Review: A Wilder Rose
Book Review: A Reader’s Book of Days
Book Review: A Reader’s Book of Days by Tom Nissley Disclaimer: I received this book as a Goodreads giveaway on the premise that I would review it. My review is based on the Advance Reading Copy; there may be small changes in the finished product. Unlike most of the books I review, I have not… Continue reading Book Review: A Reader’s Book of Days