My Ramblings About Various Ships
In a post late November, user (god I hate his name) LiteraryFuckBoi posted his opinion piece “Rambling About Various Ships.” It got me thinking, you know, I’m an individual who has some ships he likes, maybe I should share them? So in this post, that’s exactly what I’m going to do. He talks about ships he enjoys and ships he finds questionable, and I think that’s a great place to start. So without further ado, and without any particular order, here’s a list of some ships. Eve Online: Catalyst The Catalyst is an amazing Destroyer-class ship that’s cheap enough a pilot can afford to lose a few, strong enough to…
6 Blogs & 1 Podcast You Should Follow If You Enjoy My Content
As I continue to grow this blog, it’s clear that it wants to focus on the stories I read and the authors I interact with, which is interesting because it was never originally intended to be just about writing. Sure, I wanted to share some of the stuff I wrote, but that would require that I actually write and publish work and we all know how difficult actually doing things is! This blog was also supposed to be a place to share my opinions on the various media I consumed and, in rare instances, keep people up to date with what’s going on in my life. Like Facebook, only without…
Review: Six Sacred Swords
I don’t feel it’s fair to consider Andrew Rowe an Indie Author; after all, he has a remarkable number of credits to his name between work with Blizzard Entertainment and the highly acclaimed Shades of Venaya LARP. And yet, until a few months ago, I had never personally read any of his work or listened to any of the audiobooks reading from them. This all changed when it was recommended I read Six Sacred Swords, a novel set in Mr. Rowe’s world of Venaya. This particular novel is actually a bit of a side story that takes place between two as-yet unfinished trilogies the author continues to work on. It…
The Curse of Amazon Audible
This year wasn’t just the year I read the most books, it was also the year I listened to the most audio books. Most of these I read through Amazon’s Audible program, as it handles a lot of professional audiobooks as well as books for more indie titles by authors who are just starting out or whose writing styles might be enjoyable to me yet not have caught on to the mainstream yet. There’s a lot of great stories to listen to here, and I can’t help but recommend them… even as I struggle every month to cancel. It’s a tricky thing. Let me explain. Disclosure: the above is an…
I Stole a Poetry Book (and Never Did Anything Good With It)
Disclosure: The above link is an Amazon Affiliate link. I may receive compensation if a purchase is made through the link. I have this copy of a book called “The Practice of Poetry.” It was first published in 1992, but mine is “A QUILL/HARPERRESOURCE edition” that was published in 2001. I am not sure how I got my hands on it but at this point I’m 100% sure I stole it. However, this being the case, I would have done so back around 2001 to early 2002, so the statute of limitations is up. That being said, I’m not sure exactly how I stole it. I think I borrowed it…
You Should All Read a Book by Kris Schnee
Note: this editorial contains several affiliate links. If a purchase is made through it, in theory I get a kickback. This year I read more works of fiction than I had in the entire 8 years prior (source books for games not included.) This was in many ways a good thing. I was able to experience the worlds of several different indie authors, see what made them work, and see what stories they were looking to tell. One of those authors was Kris Schnee, whose stories of a near-future world where people’s brains can get scanned into several competing sandbox-style game worlds continues to keep me coming back for more.…
Review: Days of Old Works qar***
Note: the link above is an affiliate link. If you were to make a purchase from it, I would in theory receive a kickback or commission. I prefer to keep things positive on this blog. It isn’t easy, of course, and as a result of this sometimes I go weeks without even posting. I’m going to continue to keep it positive as I review this $9, 5 page booklet that I bought solely because of the seizure-inducing cover. This is a Lovecraftian mystery that just settles under the skin and makes a person wonder “why?” I fell for it, of course, paying the fee. In return, I expected to be…
The Trenchcoat
A light melody of trombone and French horn lingered with the smell of coffee and the taste of nostalgia. I carefully sipped at my chai, allowing my lips to disarm the heat inside the drink before allowing the liquid to flow down my dry throat. I was just another nobody, mingling with other characters in the bookstore-slash-coffee shop. I felt in my element, but I also had the feeling that the blue trenchcoat I was wearing made me stand out somehow. It bothered me not; the coat fit me like the skin God forgot to give me. It wasn’t that I felt naked without my cropduster (the specific style of…
The Pizza Counter
At the place I have worked for over the last two years, we have an electric sign that states how many days its been since someone got so hurt it actually slowed production. I am sure there is a proper name for this type of signage, but I refer to it as “The Pizza Counter.” Rumor has it if the aluminum die casting plant ever makes it 100 days without a “time loss incident” the owners will buy us pizza. In two years, not once has it broken 100. We got close. Counter made it to 98. This turned out to be a mistake; it was supposed to have been…
Review – Over a God’s Dead Body
Note: the above link is an affiliate link; if you make a purchase from it, there’s a chance I’ll get some sort of kickback. When I purchased this book it had an image of a rather generic Eye of Horus on the title. Sometime between then and when I finally got around to reading it, the title had changed again, this time to a duck that looked like it had a wound of some sort on its body and a colander on its head. Neither of these images do well to set the tone for the book, or give an idea of what to expect. From there, I listened to…