Back of the Envelope

I've been busy on the anthology recently (we're in the process of editing the stories now, and it's taking a while), so I haven...

I have a new story out at Liberty Island Magazine . The name of the story is Dynasty of the Elect , and it's about strange aliens being ...

Kristin has a brilliant post on stew, especially as it would have been eaten in a pre-industrial fantasy world.  A taste: Obviously, no o...

The title gets at the most important point:  Mysterion  is open for submissions, from now until December 25th. There's more, thoug...

This post is a slightly-modified version of a post originally appearing on the Mysterion website . The small independent press producing ...

So I promised an announcement in my last post.  Here it is.  My wife and I have decided that we have too much free time, so we're starti...

This weekend, Kristin and I went to Realm Makers , a convention for Christian speculative fiction writers. It was a lot different from the c...

So my old laptop died.  That wasn't so strange--it was just a cheap laptop to tide me over, and the WiFi had been iffy for a year now, b...

One of my clearest memories of PC gaming comes from when I was in middle school. I was in the basement playing a PC game called The Bard...

Mavel's Daredevil  is the first of the Netflix Marvel superhero television series. In a way it's similar to Agents of Shield --it...

Conservative policy wonk Avik Roy has made the argument that universal healthcare is a desirable good. Conservatives tend to be skeptical of...

My latest self-published book review is now up at Black Gate.  Here's a sampling: This month’s self-published novel is Malarat by J...

My latest self-published book review, this time of Chris Presta-Valachovic's The Severed Earth , is now online at Black Gate . Here'...

I'm not sure whether to be disturbed or impressed that this is my Google doodle today: Google's Birthday Doodle