Knuckleduster Review at Buzzy Mag

The good folks over at Buzzy Mag have published another review I wrote for them. The first couple of paragraphs and a link are below, enjoy.

As a side note they have raised their rates for fiction authors from $.05/word to $.10/word up to 10,000 words.

There’s the old adage about not judging a book by its cover (though sometimes publishers may spend several thousand dollars designing them). The same could probably be said about judging a book by a blurb. Picking up Andrew Post’s, Knuckleduster, one’s not only greeted with poor cover art but the blurb on the front about tempering rage with brass knuckles made this book seem as unappealing as a root canal.

We’re given an interesting protagonist in Brody Calhoun, a veteran who was blinded in an ambush in Egypt. He now makes his money using brass knuckles to beat up men who knock around their wives and girlfriends when they had one too many. The reason he asks for the money is so that he can buy batteries to recharge his carotene lenses that allow him to see. Not only are we given a hero that has an actual disability that he can’t overcome, but he is deathly afraid of his disability taking over his life. This isn’t something he can just push through or learn to live with as if he didn’t have a disability at all (think Rutger Hauer’s character from Blind Fury,1989). Brody has found a way to make money helping people while using loopholes to stay out of jail...more

Deus Ex: The Fall Review at Perihelion SF

Perihelion has published a video game review I've done for them. I haven't reviewed any media aside from books for a long time now and it felt a little odd getting back into it but I think I pulled it off alright.

The review is here: http://www.perihelionsf.com/reviews.htm It's the last one.

I hope to get back into doing various types of media and products here in the future.

Six Gun Tarot Review at Buzzy Mag

The good people at Buzzy Mag have published another review I wrote for them. The first two paragraphs and a link to the article is below. While you are there check out their site. It's a pretty awesome site with lots of cool links and they give away free stuff from time to time.

Also for fiction writers, they have just raised their pay rates to $.10/word.

 A rootin'-tootin'-shootin'-cthulhun' good time. Or maybe I should say yippie-r'lyeh. I'm all for mixing genres and shattering barriers between them. But if the mixture isn't balanced the whole thing quickly becomes hard to digest.

We start our adventure in 1869 as Jim and his horse, Promise, struggle to make it through the desert. Trailing behind him (and trailing behind each of the characters as we meet them) is a heavy dollop of exposition. The half Indian Sheriff's deputy, Mutt, saves Jim from the desert only to bring him to Golgotha, a town where all kinds of weird things happen and people seem to pretty much take it in stride. Chaos breaks out and we meet the Sheriff, who can't die, and a banker's wife who is part of a secretly trained sect that has all kinds of assassin-type skills. There are a few other characters that unfortunately become viewpoint characters later...(more)

Another review is up at New Myths

New Myths has published another review I wrote for them (currently the feature review). Check it out and feel free to share it:

https://sites.google.com/a/newmyths.com/nmwebsite/books-we-are-reading/a-cold-season

Perihelion has published another review I wrote for them

This has been up since the 12th but I've been busy. It is a review for James Gunn's Transcendental and is the review at the top. Enjoy and share:

http://www.perihelionsf.com/reviews.htm

A new review is up at New Myths

New Myths has published a review I wrote (the featured review at the moment). The link is below, feel free to share it:

https://sites.google.com/a/newmyths.com/nmwebsite/books-we-are-reading/a-short-stay-in-hell

Another review up at Buzzy Mag

Buzzy mag has published another review I wrote for them. The first bit is below leading to a link. While you're there check out some of the great stuff they have for sale.

Writers are known for being obsessive compulsives; that is just a characteristic that comes with the territory. After reading Blood And Magick by James R. Tuck, I have to wonder if we are hitting the age of the books for people with attention deficit disorder. Are we going to start seeing multiple books where the action constantly jumps around?

Deacon Chalk, our occult bounty-hunting hero, is having a nice dinner with his friends when a trio of witches attacks the restaurant. Deacon and friends jump into action with bullets and bravado flying. We are beat over the head with the types of guns used and with all of the training and experience that Deacon has fighting. And we are shown that Deacon is a real man, oozing with machismo from every pore. The good guys prevail and the bad guys regroup for a bigger, badder attack...more