(sorry, Dear Reader: WordPress was down for a bit, hence the delay in posting): I don’t write alpha males. I don’t like them. Pushy, overbearing jerks, most of them. Well, I should say, I do write alphas, they just aren’t my heroes. Lord Tharp is an alpha male, and what did he do? He was such a jerk to his wife she leaves him, crossing into another dimension (which gives a whole new meaning to Read more…
Charles Stross writes them. So does Taylor Anderson. Eric Flint‘s 1632 is all about portals! So why are portal stories so bad? When I was shopping Gordath Wood, I heard from a couple of agents that the “portal” novel was overdone. Joshua Bilmes and Kristen Nelson both said that the portal, in which a protagonist from our world goes into a fantasy world and the novel commences from there, was an overused device. Nelson in Read more…
Joe drove the back roads from the farm, winding his ancient Impala around the narrow country lane, a cold beer between his knees. He passed Balanced Rock, hulking off the highway, a massive boulder sitting lightly on three small rocks. He shivered for a second. His grandmother had a saying: there’s a goose walking over your grave. Every time I drive by that damn rock, he thought. Ignoring the ah, continuity error, this is the Read more…