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Movies
Call to Arms
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News & Reviews
Fantasy
Happy 90th Birthday, Ray Harryhausen!
Today, June 29, 2010 is Ray Harryhausen’s 90th birthday! Click here for Ray’s official site. Ray, for those few of you who don’t know, is the all-time great master of special effects (especially stop-motion animation). […]
Appearances
Southeast Wisconsin Festival of Books
Yeah, I should have posted about this earlier, but I’m appearing at the SE Wisconsin Festival of Books this Saturday, June 19, 2010 in Waukesha, Wisconsin. At 2pm, I’ll be moderating a panel on Comics […]
Movies
Why the Sequel to That Book You Love Will Never Be Written
“I really loved that book. When are you going to write a sequel?” People ask me that question all the time. I hear it from fans at conventions, in email, and on Facebook and other social […]
Reviews
CATHE Youth Theater Company: Groovy – Review
Groovy has done something no CATHE Youth Theater Company (CYTC) production has ever done before: sold out the CATHE auditorium. The center, located at 125 E. State St., Burlington, Wisconsin, has been staging CYTC productions […]
Announcements
Cover for Upcoming Jean Rabe & Friends Anthology
Here’s the cover for the new anthology being put together by Jean Rabe & friends to celebrate the Gen Con Writer’s Symposium. I’ll be contributing a new Crimson story, “Time War,” as well as the […]
Appearances
Bill & Steve’s Excellent C2E2 Roadtrip
Where does the time go? I don’t mean just rhetorically as in life, but specifically, where does the time that I intend to write blog posts go? (I know: writing stories, doing art, being a […]
Reviews
Theater Undreground: The Actor’s Nightmare & Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You – Review
It’s time for another foray into experimental stagecraft by Theater Undreground in Richmond, IL, and this show may be their most challenging to date. Not that they haven’t done some edgy work in the past […]
Creator Owned
Crimson & Crash Up for Amazon Kindle
Both stories, “Forever Crimson” and “Crash of the Titans” are now up on Amazon & available for purchase: Forever Crimson — Crash of the Titans Check out the covers in the previous post. And be […]
Announcements
Forever Crimson & Crash of the Titans
Just finished uploading “Forever Crimson” and “Crash of the Titans” to Kindle, so I thought I’d share the covers with you. They should both be available for purchase before Monday. Drop me a line and […]