Although I’ve so far confined myself to reviewing fiction, I’ve decided to cross the threshold into the non-fiction world. Jordan Peterson is a clinical psychologist and a professor at the University of Toronto. Recently he’s become a bit of a celebrity and the center of controversy. He’s also suffered bitter attacks from both the far […]
I love Halloween! I have more spooky home décor for both inside and out than I do all the other holidays combined. Curious about how Victorians celebrated Halloween, I did a little digging… pun intended. After a bit of research, I discovered I come by my love of All Hallows’ Eve honestly. Halloween made its […]
At the height of the genre’s boom around 2010, lots of folks were getting on the Steampunk Bandwagon. One happy side effect was a renewed interest in science fiction from the Victorian Era. The book Steampunk Prime is a collection of tales from the late 1800’s and early 1900’s, collected by editor Mike Ashley. A […]
In 2008, when Twilight hit the big screen, vampire stories were everywhere. I was getting pretty sick of them. Even publishers wouldn’t buy vampire books. Yet the vampire legend, like the creatures that people it, refuses to die. The Japanese are just as intrigued with the concept and have produced several vampire series in anime […]
It’s hard to believe, but I launched this blog just over a year ago, in October of 2017. Since then we’ve brought you a plethora of steampunk related reviews and features. In honor of this auspicious occasion, and also to celebrate Halloween, we’re having a FREE promotion of my urban fantasy “Love at Stake,” available […]
Having focused on steampunk for the last few years, I was astonished that I hadn’t run into this book before. Homunculus was published in 1986 before steampunk became all the rage in the 2000’s. It won the Phillip K. Dick award for best original paperback in 1988. Many steampunk books are modern-style novels that happen […]
In June of 2012, a sensation hit the Internet – a story-type podcast called Welcome to Nightvale. Created by Jeffrey Cranor and Joseph Fink, it featured a small Southwestern town where the bizarre is an everyday occurrence. It was a huge hit among millennials, and I found it amusing as well. This wasn’t, however, their […]
