For the past several months, this meme has been circulating amongst my writer friends, where they get to talk about their upcoming and in-progress projects. Last week, my friend Dayton Ward tagged me, so now, my Next Big Thing:

1) What’s the title of your forthcoming book?
Star Trek: The Shocks of Adversity

2) Where did the idea come from for the ( Read more... )

As I was reviewing my year-end "books read" list last month, I determined that, in the period from late August to early November during which I was writing my Trek novel and racing my deadline, I was doing almost no recreational reading. I won't claim that I felt withdrawal pains in that period, but I did very much miss pleasure reading, and it ( Read more... )

As is my long-running New Year's tradition (so long running, that I actually come back to LiveJournal to do it!) here is my annual record of reading for the year just past ( Read more... )

Welcome to the Seventh Annual BLOG Looks at Books Year in Review!

This year, I managed to complete 46 books in total, an increase over the 39 read the previous year. This number includes 12 Star Trek tie-ins (the highest this number has been since writing my last ST fiction), 1 non-Trek media tie-in title, 17 titles in continuing literary series ( Read more... )

Happy Halloween!! It's been a while since my last Wayback Movie Review (and even longer since the one before that), so I thought I would celebrate All Hallow's Eve by snarking on a classic of horror genre. Thanks to all who voted in my poll earlier this month. Of the five candidates, one film was the runaway winner, with twice as many votes as its ( Read more... )

So, I'm considering doing another Wayback Movie Review, this time of a classic horror flick for Halloween this year. I've ID'ed a few candidates which are celebrating milestone anniversaries this year, so I thought I'd throw it out to the few LiveJournal dead-enders who still read this to see what you-all think. The contenders are:

Dracula, 80 ( Read more... )

For those who didn't see my post on Facebook: My short story "A Faithful Companion" has been accepted for publication in the 2012 anthology "A Quiet Shelter There," edited by Gerri Leen. If you've ever wondered what became of Adam and Eve's dog after they left the Garden -- or even if you never knew Adam and Eve had a dog -- this is a story you ( Read more... )

This week marks a very important anniversary in SF film history. It was thirty-five years ago, on June 23, 1976, that MGM released the film Logan's RunThirty-five years. You realize what that means? That's right, it means this film somehow escaped its deserved fate on its thirtieth anniversary, and has been living on borrowed time for the past ( Read more... )

Twenty-five years ago, on April 2, 1986, a new series debuted on ICB-TV 13, Ithaca College's student-run television station. The series was called ANTHOLOGY, and that's what it was: an anthology of short films created by students in the college's cinema department, as well as original scripts written and produced for the series. And the first such ( Read more... )

The book I am reading: Must the Maiden Die by Miriam Grace Monfredo. One of a series of historical mysteries set in western New York in the mid 1800s. Ms. Monfredo was a frequent guest of honor during my bookseller days back home, and I'd read the first few books of this series back then.

The book I am writing: A Western/fantasy/alternate history ( Read more... )