Every time I check in on the old LiveJournal, I'm finding new, anonymous replies have been posted to years-old entries. Some of them are classic spam (with hyperlinks no one with more net savvy than a Republican congressman would ever click), some are of the word-salad variety, some are in Russian (or else Cyrillic gibberish), and some seem ( Read more... )

What could draw me back to LiveJournal after an absence of two months? Why, it's my traditional end-o'-the-year book report!

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And so this weekend, I have learned that self-e-publishing my fiction is maybe not the best of ideas...

A couple months back, a story idea entered my head. One that I thought was somewhat original and unique, though certainly not one you could build an entire novel around. But one that I liked all the same, and which I had fun turning into the story that follows.

Enjoy, and please leave your comments.

A ZOMBIE HOME COMPANIONa parody by William ( Read more... )

Because a few people on my f-list might get a kick out of seeing this post from the local indy SF bookstore...

Originally posted by unclehugo_edgar at Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday Arrivals at Uncle Hugo's
More info about these titles on our website: http://www.unclehugo.com/prod/2010-10-hugo.php

Locus #597 October 2010 (Locus Publications Mag, $6.95, 1st ( Read more... )

A few weeks ago, I posted over on my Facebook page "William Leisner believes the time is right for a re-imagining of THE FLYING NUN ( Read more... )

For those of you who may be visiting here by following a link from the website of a friend, or of a publication I've contributed to,

A) Welcome! and
B) I'm afraid this is not the most active of blogs out there. By all means, feel free to check things out here, but you may be more interested in my Facebook or Twitter pages ( Read more... )

I thought I had a pretty clever and unique idea. Not a big idea, by any means, but a fun one. One that I thought would make for an amusing short-short that I would then post come the day before the Feast of All Hallow's for the enjoyment of my near-dozen of fans.

But, dammit, not only did someone beat me to it, but they went hogwild with it.As ( Read more... )

Previously on BLOG, I had explained the reasons I decided to take a month out of my life to watch and rewatch The Blues Brothers, and to give it the liveblogging snark treatment here. If you missed Part I while traveling home from ComicCon or holding vigil outside of Lindsay Lohan's prison cell, check it out hereIf you've already read Part I, then ( Read more... )

Most of you who follow me here on LiveJournal (or Facebook or Twitter, for that matter) also follow fellow Trek scribe Dayton "daytonward" Ward, and therefore are aware of his semi-regular "Wayback Reviews" of the original Star Trek series. Inspired by Wil Wheaton's online retro reviews of The Next Generation, along with a dash of Mystery Science Theater ( Read more... )