Bam! Hell & Gone is a Bestseller
Recently I organized a little media blitz for my debut shoot-’em-up, and ran a 99 cent promotion. The results have been encouraging. I’m not a full-time author (I still work a “real” job, drat the...
View ArticleFalse Flag Is On Sale
The third book in The Retreads series is now on sale for 99 cents at Amazon. False Flag is a near-future SHTF speculative saga of economic collapse and civil war, in which the...
View ArticleThe Magnificent Seven 3.1
The grandfather of this latest Magnificent Seven movie was Akira Kurosawa’s classic The Seven Samurai. Set toward the end of the feudal period in Japan, the plot blossoms out of a small village ravaged...
View ArticleMarvel Comics Regains its Senses?
Probably not. This is more likely economic reality putting the temporary kibosh on their agenda. Comic book fans are among the most loyal fans. Few things run them off of their favorite books. For some...
View ArticleRazorfist Rants on a 1980s Action Classic
We’ve only recently discovered Razorfist AKA the Rageaholic. Not only are his epic rants impressive simply for lung capacity and linguistic aplomb, but a whole lot of his observations are savvy, too. I...
View ArticleCobra (1986)–a Review
The centerpiece of NASCAR’s Speed Week–the Daytona 500–just took place. We’re considering a Speed Week of our own right here. Or maybe a Speed Month, anyway. I have been informed that Virtual Pulp is...
View ArticleSpeed Week Plus: A Classic Gearhead Novel, Reviewed
I first read this book even before the speed bug bit me, and enjoyed it then. As I did become obsessed with horsepower, my affection and appreciation only grew. Larry Cook is, superficially speaking,...
View ArticleSpeed Week Plus: The Road Warrior
Mad Max cannonballs through the wasteland in a world devolving back to the Iron Age. You think you’ve seen road rage before? Let’s cruise on over to post-apocalyptic Australia for a high octane...
View ArticleSpeed Week Plus: “Gearhead Porn”
One reviewer called Fast Cars and Rock & Roll “gearhead porn,” and I guess it is. Unfortunately, gearheads are an endangered species and an even smaller niche than I thought.* But anyway… below is...
View ArticleDoom River: The Sergeant #5 – a Review
Due mostly to my schedule, my blogged reviews of this blood’n’guts war series stopped at #4. But my negligence stops, now! Master Sergeant Mahoney and Corporal Cranepool have just returned from their...
View ArticleBroken Trail – a (Red Pill) Review
This western was probably made before there even was a “manosphere,” but those of a neomasculine perspective should find it well worth watching. The plot premise: A rancher and his nephew strike a deal...
View ArticleSlaughter City: The Sergeant #6 – a Review
When we last left Master Sergeant Mahoney and Corporal Cranepool, Patton had tried to force Eisenhower’s hand to get the war blazing along the Moselle River, so he could drive on to Berlin. But Ike...
View ArticleThe Last Kingdom (Seasons 1, 2) – a Review
I almost didn’t even give this series a chance. Hollywood and television have me so gunshy, I doubted they could produce anything that won’t nauseate me. And the BBC, from what little I know, is...
View ArticleEvery Blade of Grass by R.A. Mathis – A Review
In this third novel in the Homeland series, there’s a turning point in Civil War II. Some Americans saw the writing on the wall, and bugged out just before “The Second Founding.” They organized while...
View ArticleKeep Watch for Alt★Hero!
We’ve blogged at length here about the culture war, and we’ve worked (as time and opportunity have permitted) to provide alternatives to The Narrative being rammed down our throats in every medium of...
View ArticleFalse Flag: #1 Bestseller
About this time last year, Hell and Gone climbed into Amazon’s Top 100 in the overall Kindle bestseller rankings. That’s no easy task in the present-day book biz. This year the third novel in the...
View ArticleSword & Supernatural
…That’s what I’m calling this foray into epic fantasy. I meant to reveal the cover prior to the release of the book. Oops. But here it is now. As for the setting…for now, all I’m going to say is that...
View ArticleAstounding Frontiers
The folks at Superversive have been putting together an electronic sci-fi periodical that has loads of potential. I read some Amazon reviews and was surprised (yet again) at how different mainstream...
View Article“Another Excellent Novel”
There are downsides to having a bestseller. It gives your book more exposure, which is certainly a net gain; but it also draws plenty of wild cards. As in all businesses, customers are probably about...
View ArticlePick Up Your Sickle Sword, Follow Me…
I’m the Bronze Age infantry. Tribal shock troops Patch on my shoulder… Free for the Amazon Kindle right now: the new epic fantasy novel Gods & Proxies. This is not yet another Tolkien wannabe...
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