Welcome to the first installment of On the Shelf where I review books that have been out for a while but that you may be interested in going back and picking up (which really for me defines all books). I noted in my first instalment of In Stores Now that I had intended to write about Erik Larson’s Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America before realizing it was almost twelve years old. Well for On the Shelf a dozen years is nothing to stand in the way of a good (or…
Month: March 2015
Worth it? – The Discoverers
In our first installment of ‘Worth it?’ We take a look at 2014 Indy film The Discoverers and help you decide whether or not it’s worth checking out. The movie stars Griffin Dunne (American Werewolf in London, After Hours) as the cliché aging divorced dad of two whose life has hit the skids. In this case he’s a washed up college professor stuck teaching at an unaccredited community college in Chicago. He hopes to get his life on track by pitching a new book at the annual academic conference he attends every year with his children in Oregon but is…
World Building 101- Mythology
I apologize for the long break between posts folks but I’m afraid my attention has been on other projects of late including my just released poetry collection Musings of the Mystic and Mundane (available in print and on Kindle from Amazon.com) and the completion of the first draft of my sci-fi/fantasy epic The Seeker. The latter accomplishment making this particular blog post rather timely. Now as this is the first in my series of posts dealing with world building I suppose I should elucidate my intentions. Basically in this series I will take you through the step by step process…