Shell and I will have a table at the Great Philadelphia Comic Con, from Friday April 3rd through Sunday April 5th. The show is at the Greater Philadelphia Convention Center in Oaks, PA. As usual, we will be hawking our Ascension Epoch books (including custom illustrated Artist’s Editions), T-shirts, artwork, and more. Despite actually living […]
Month: January 2015
OnlineBookClub.org reviews “Copper Knights and Granite Men”
Following on the heels of the review of After Dark, OnlineBookClub.org also reviewed Copper Knights and Granite Men. Here are some of the highlights: It starts off sounding like some kind of groan-worthy joke – three superheroes walk into a museum – but the result is anything but terrible. Any adults who are fans of […]
OnlineBookClub.org reviews “After Dark”
Speaking of reviews… The first East End Irregulars novel, After Dark, was reviewed over at OnlineBookClub. I’m happy to say it’s a positive review! Here are some highlights: …the reader not only meets a cast of compelling characters but also encounters a futuristic dystopia* complete with hovercraft, the future’s smartphone, and variant political divisions across […]
Write a Review, Help an Indie Author
One of the best ways to help any independent author is by writing a review of their books. Unfortunately, there are a lot of people who feel like they just can’t write a review, or would like to but don’t know what to say. We’re not going to tell you what to say, because we […]
“What’s with the appendix?”
I get this question once in a while. No, they’re not asking about the vestigial organ you had removed when you were 12. The appendix (actually appendices) at the back of the Ascension Epoch books. At the back of each book that we currently have out, there is an appendix featuring background information about the […]
Population of Loss: Free starting this Thursday
If you haven’t read our short story anthology Population of Loss yet, you’ll be able to download the ebook for free from Amazon, beginning on January 22, 2015. The promotion runs to the 26th. Normally it’s $0.99. Population of Loss contains four short stories set during the Martian invasion of 1898-1905. The stories run the […]
You can’t possibly live long enough…
There’s nothing like a brush with death to give you fresh perspective! I received this pearl of wisdom after gorging at the local Chinese buffet a few weeks ago. Rarely does a fortune cookie attain a profound personal meaning, but this one hit me right in the gut, so to speak. No, I didn’t think […]
Unsolved Haz-Mat Mystery that inspired ‘Miasma’
This article was originally published on July 25, 2014. Now that After Dark is out, I can share one of my favorite tales of High Strangeness from my local area. But first, a scene from the “Miasma” chapter of After Dark to set the mood: “I must have missed something,” said Sebastian Pereira as he […]
Thoughts on the ‘Jinx’ Phenomenon
This article was originally published on June 26, 2014 In modern times, the presence of paranormal entities, whether identified as extraterrestrials, poltergeists, or ‘monsters’ like Bigfoot or Mothman, are often associated with the spontaneous failure of complex technology. Paranormalists tend to attribute this to the presence of unusual electromagnetic fields that short out or cause […]
Book Review: Mysterious Things in the Woods
This post was originally published on June 12, 2014. Mysterious Things in the Woods by Stephen Young $2.99 on the Kindle Each of us has at least one guilty indulgence, something we really like, though we know we shouldn’t. I’m not talking about actual sins, just sins against good taste: a trashy novel or a […]
