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Featured at the Fantasy Tavern 0

Featured at the Fantasy Tavern

My website and book are being featured at Tracy Falbe’s Fantasy Tavern website. Beer and books…what more could you ask for? Related posts: No related posts.

The Last Olympian 20

book notes: The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan (Percy Jackson #5)

The Last Olympian is a well written ending to an excellent series, with the promise of more to come. The prophesized battle between the Olympic Gods and the Titans starts in the first chapter,...

Interview with Jonathan Maberry at SF Signal 1

Interview with Jonathan Maberry at SF Signal

SFSignal.com has posted an interview I did with Jonathan Maberry, martial artist and author of Patient Zero, a techno-thriller. Patient Zero is a fast paced read, featuring Joe Ledger, a no-nonsense, no-hesitation fighter who...

Pidgin, or why 4 chat programs no longer suck my PC dry 0

Pidgin, or why 4 chat programs no longer suck my PC dry

Granted, my PC needs to be replaced (it is my trusty Sony Vaio that has been around the world with me for years)…but it was dragging, in some not-so-small part due to the number...

bookrev: Sunrise Tai Chi by Ramel Rones 0

bookrev: Sunrise Tai Chi by Ramel Rones

Sunrise Tai Chi provides an introduction to Tai Chi Chuan, with easy to understand descriptions of the history and principles, plus visualizations to help with the hard-to-understand breathing/mental disciplines and a short “Sunrise Tai...

Amazon MP3s on Twitter 1

Amazon MP3s on Twitter

While we can argue whether Twitter is a “new social media” or not, one great thing about it is the Amazon MP3 twitter feed. Amazon certainly seems to be trying to put a dent...

Watchmen – Book vs. Movie 1

Watchmen – Book vs. Movie

Always, read the book first. The movies are often good, but the source material is almost always better. My review of the Watchmen book is here. Read here for a good description of Alan...

bookrev: Fool by Christopher Moore 0

bookrev: Fool by Christopher Moore

With Lamb and Fool, Christopher Moore has now added his own unique set of background material to two of the English language’s most read stories: The Bible and the Works of William Shakespeare. Fool...

The Demigod Files 3

The Demigod Files: Percy Jackson & The Olympians by Rick Riordan

While waiting for Riordan’s next Percy Jackson novel The Last Olympian, readers can get their Percy fix with The Demigod Files, a collection of short stories and interviews. While short (133 pages excluding pictures,...

Asteroid impact via Google Maps 2

Asteroid impact via Google Maps

With news of asteroid 2009 DD45 near-miss of the Earth, what better time for a tool that shows the impact implications? Carlos Labs has released Ground Zero, where you can pick your location and,...