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Product Review: Epubor Ultimate Converter for eBooks

 Product Name: Epubor Ultimate Version: 3.0.5.4 Product Website: http://www.epubor.com/ultimate.html Windows/Mac? Yes/Yes Trial Version Available? Yes, 30-day Disclosure: Affiliate? No, I am not an affiliate. If you’re like me, you have a lot of eBooks that you’ve purchased over the years. Ever since Amazon reached out and removed copies of the book 1984 from all Kindle users […]

Doctor Who Review: 001-An Unearthly Child

 Episode Number: 001 Production Code: A Number of Episodes: 4 Original Broadcast Date: November 23, 1963 The Doctor: William Hartnell Companions: Susan (The Doctor’s Granddaughter), Ian, Barbara Location: Earth Main Enemy, Alien or Monster: Kal Notes: Sometimes referred to as 100,000BC, but it was re-titled before release. First appearance of The Doctor, the TARDIS, Susan, […]

Book Review: Ghosts of Coronado Bay

 Title: Ghosts of Coronado Bay Series: A Maya Blair Mystery Author: JG Faherty Genre: Paranormal Publisher: JournalStone Release Date: June 10, 2011 Format: Print Pages: 162 Source: Purchased 2011 HWA Bram Stoker finalist for superior achievement in Young Adult fiction. By all accounts, 16-year-old Maya Blair is a typical teen-age high school student. She hangs out with […]

Reviews of Classic Doctor Who

 While I love the modern version of that rascally time-traveling Gallifreyan, I still enjoy the classic episodes. I decided to watch every episode I could, in order, and to post something here. I’ll include a small summary and my opinion on each story. I will use the title of the story arc instead of the […]

Book Review: The Harvest by Scott Nicholson

 Title: The Harvest Author: Scott Nicholson Genre: Horror Publisher: Haunted Computer Productions, Inc Release Date: March 9, 2014 Format: Kindle Pages: 360 Source: Purchased For fans of Stephen King, Dean Koontz, and Scott Sigler, from a #1 bestselling Kindle author. An infection that consumes and changes people… When an alien entity lands in the remote […]

Sojourner Tales

 Last year, the brilliant team of Tracy and Laura Hickman came up with an interesting idea for a game system based around stories. They set up a Kickstarter campaign to get it rolling. It did pick up enough funding to not only produce the game, but enough to use some quality materials. Even the box, […]

Fiction Writing Assessment

 From the brilliant Tim Waggoner, here’s an assessment form for use in teaching, workshops, or even critique groups. At the very least, it can be used as a checklist for beta readers as to what kind of feedback would be useful.   It’s a freebie. The email and name is to send a receipt. Feel […]

New Interview at Ginger Nuts of Horror

 Ginger Nuts of Horror, run by Jim Mcleod out of the United Kingdom, posted an interview with me on their website. The interview series is called Five Minutes With… Ginger Nuts of Horror posts interviews and news for the horror and dark media fans. They’re worth a visit and a bookmark, particularly since you can […]

Nice review of Angels Cried

 “Big Al” left a nice 4-star review on Amazon for the charity anthology Angels Cried. He called out two particular stories, one of which was my short story titled For Christmas, I Made My Mother Cry. From the review: A couple of the stories stood above the rest for me. For Christmas, I Made My […]

Asana

 Since Tonya and I collaborate on work, and she is also my full-time business manager, we needed to get organized. I poked around, looking at project management tools. I needed something that we could both get up to speed on quickly, which ruled out Microsoft Project. I wanted something we could share on different laptops, […]