Holding Their Own II by Joe Nobody
I’m a TEOTWAWKI/post-apocalyptic fiction fan going way back, to when I first saw The Road Warrior. For many years, it seems like there hasn’t been a lot in the genre that’s well-written, unless you...
View ArticleBook Giveaway: Hell and Gone
I’m giving out 10 free copies of my first novel. The giveaway lasts for a month, so you have plenty of time to enter once it is approved on Goodreads. I’m getting close to finishing the first draft of...
View ArticleBook Giveaway: Tier Zero
I’m gonna try this here giveaway thang one more time. CLICK FOR PAPERBACK Yes, “Tier Zero” is a play on words. The recently-popular terminology “tier one, tier two,” and so forth, refers to military...
View ArticleEdgar Rice Burroughs: A Treasure from the Past for a Demasculinized World
Are you old enough to remember those glorious days of yore when you couldn’t turn around in the bookstore or walk past the bookrack at your local grocery store without seeing the latest edition of The...
View ArticleBut You’re White! Don’t You Want to Preserve Our Heritage?
Sneak preview of my dystopian thriller/paramilitary TEOTWAWKI novel. PROLOGUE D PLUS THREE LAS ANIMAS COUNTY, COLORADO It was determined some years ago that 0300 was the ideal time to raid a home....
View ArticleShadow Hand Blues
In 1954 budding blues virtuoso Waymon “Tornado” Fuller is executed for the murder of a North Carolina woman. In 1994 nomadic hot-rodder, moonlighting private investigator and blues aficionado Deke...
View ArticleAn Alpha Male Hot-Rods Through SJW-World
SJW=Social Justice Whiner. I’ve never taken drugs but I understand that pushers often hand out the first fix for free in order to get somebody hooked. Cunning strategy, sez I. So starting today, the...
View ArticleSome News About the Retreads Books
Hell & Gone is already reduced in price to 99 cents on Amazon; soon to follow suit in all other E-Book stores. Also, I have decided not to renew the KDP Select status of False Flag. It will be...
View ArticleA Post-Modern Pulp
As far as I know, Jack Badelaire coined the term “post-modern pulp.” It describes the “men’s fiction” paperbacks that replaced the old classic pulp magazines in the publishing world. Jack’s blog was...
View ArticleA Knight Without Armor in a Savage Land
Grant Cogar is a reporter. An old-school reporter–the kind you see characterized on movies and TV but hasn’t dominated actual journalism probably since WWII: he reports the facts regardless of how they...
View ArticlePraise For the Harboiled Gearhead Rock&Roller Detective
Deke Jones is an unapolagetic alpha male (sigma according to Vox Day’s breakdown of the socio-sexual hierarchy) but also an irreverent loner, whose passion is cars and music, and just happens to make a...
View ArticleSuperheroes and “The Narrative”
Just what is “The Narrative,” you ask? The Narrative is a conglomeration of messages rammed down our throats by government, academia, every medium of pop culture, and the blue pill sheeple who orient...
View ArticleThe Flash on Netflix
Smallville paved the way for Arrow, and The Flash spun off from that. If you noticed that Smallville became increasingly ridiculous and unimaginative after Season One, you might suspect that the same...
View ArticleDaredevil on Netflix
So far, there is only one season’s worth of episodes on Netflix. I watched them all to the end without puking. I do admit to some groans and eye-rolls, but grading on the curve, that’s an A+ for a...
View ArticleUp Close With a Supervillain
A chilling wind swept over the barren wasteland. In all directions, as far as the eye could see, there was nothing but desolate emptiness. In such a dreary location the imagination tends to wander and...
View ArticlePaper Clip, High Jump, and Nazis in Antarctica
Those are what my co-guest, Bruno De Marqes, talked about on the Speculative Fiction Cantina podcast. Fate plays some interesting jokes. I was there to talk about my books, especially False Flag . I...
View ArticleCaptain America: Civil War is More Than a Slugfest
In the Silver Age of comics, when Marvel became a serious competitor for DC, there was a distinct contrast in the storytelling styles of the two publishers, especially in the team titles (DC’s Justice...
View ArticleThe IX by Andrew P. Weston
Guest Post by Jim Morris The IX is the most inventive science fiction novel I have read since Stranger In a Strange Land. That’s saying a lot. The plot is highly complicated, and yet so clearly and...
View ArticleSelling Books is Like Alchemy
…Which is to say, I may never figure it out. But, sometimes advertising in the right way can give you a bump. For months Shadow Hand Blues has been buried on about page # umpteen zillion or so at...
View ArticleHigh Couch of Silistra by Janet Morris
Guest Post by Jim Morris High Couch is a classic. It is also, so far as I know, sui generis. In a long life of writing and editing in which I have written nine books, edited more than two hundred and...
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