Why is a Compost Heap Good for Your Garden and Your Book?
It’s amazing how two seemingly different things can have a lot in common. Take writing a novel and gardening, for example. One involves sitting in front of a computer in …
NaNoWriMo 2012: Oh, all right. I give in.
From the new blog’s about page: I’ve participated in NaNoWriMo, the annual (inter)National Novel Writing Month, for two years running, and am currently undertaking my third tilt. This blog is my way …
Is Glasslands As Good A Start To A Halo Trilogy As Cryptum?
I think you folks who read this blog have already seen enough posts about me carping on over the Eric Nylund / William C. Dietz Halo novels, so I’m not …
Why The Hunger Games Is A Damned Good Spy Thriller
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins My rating: 4 of 5 stars I don’t think I can see The Hunger Games movie. Not because I didn’t like the book or …
Keeping the Portfolio Up to Date: Book Reviews
Be warned, ladies and gents: This post is equal parts, “Hey everybody! Yay me!” and “Yes, potential freelance employer, I review more than just video games.” The section of my …
What do Starship Troopers and Delivering Happiness Have in Common?
Seems like nothing, right? I mean, what could a 1958 military science fiction classic have to do with a 2010 corporate memoir? Yet when I read Tony Hsieh’s examination of …
Why Cryptum Is The First Halo Novel I’m Glad To Have Read
I came to the Halo novels at the tail-end of my interest in tie-in fiction. I hadn’t picked up a Star Trek book in years and the last Star Wars book I …
What Spider Robinson and Miracle of Sound Taught Me about Music in Books
Stop right there. Step away from the keyboard and keep your hands by your sides. Thank you. Now, can I ask you to do me a favour, please? If you’ve …
John Dies At the End
Here’s a book review I wrote for the first Weekender liftout of the year!
Unusual Hard Disk Activity
It’s been a busy past couple of weeks when it comes to computers. It started, as I mentioned on the 24th, when I installed Ubuntu 8.04, a Linux distribution, on …