We attended 9th Annual Butler Paranormal Conference today for the first time. Here are my thoughts on the con as a whole: There’s only one negative, so I’ll get that out of the way: If everyone needs to be out of the building at 7 p.m., then the con should officially end at 6:30, and […]
Bad Day at the Library
This entry to #SaturdayScenes is a true web exclusive. It’s something I was originally going to put in the appendices for The Dismal Tide, but never got around to. It concerns itself with the mysterious ‘Man in Black’, Mr. Gentry, the creepiest character that the East End Irregulars have encountered to date. Astute readers may notice […]
The Moral Inversion of Netflix’s Daredevil
The Daredevil of the (admittedly excellent and highly entertaining) Netflix series is a bad guy, but it’s got nothing to do with being a vigilante. In fact, despite the way he continuously looks down on them, he’s worse than Punisher, Stick, and Elektra. Why? Because while they merely kill people, Daredevil tortures people. And I […]
Book Review: Dark Roots by R. R. Hunsinger
Dark Roots was the best experience I’ve had with short fiction in long months. It is a collection of three short stories following members of the Reese family through the ages as they match wits, brawn, and steel with an assortment of supernatural foes, from demons to Tory wizards. Each story is a whirlwind of […]
Emergency News! Find Shelter Immediately!
Several weeks ago I commissioned Colin Richards, one of our favorite monster artists, to design and draw some more giant monsters. In Ascension Epoch, the name for such creatures is Boojum. Boojum was originally an emergency code word used to designate an unusual threat that cannot be successfully defeated through normal means. Over time, it has come […]
Our 2016 Convention Schedule
We’ve updated our list of conventions for 2016. So far, we’re scheduled for five great conventions, including two we’ve never been at before. Our year kicks off in April at the Butler County Paranormal Conference in Western Pennsylvania, followed by our triumphant return to the Great Philadelphia Comic Con in Oaks a week later. In […]
Giant Monsters on the Loose!
About two weeks ago, I sketched out a very rough outline for the sequel to House of Refuge featuring the return of Justin Agnarsson and Sandra Vietes in a new adventure, this time pitted against an enemy even more monstrous than the Argentine sailors who murdered Sandra’s family. The new novella will introduce the reader to […]
Raven hair and ruby lips, sparks fly from her fingertips…
Mindy Tavoularis, aka Hecate, once a member of the superhero group Roundtable, is a fearsome magic wielder who never quite managed to gain public acceptance. No surprise, considering her mother is the sadistic, sorcerous talent Sophia Tavoularis, and her demented siblings comprise one of the most notorious organized crime families on the planet. Here she […]
Free Cities talks House of Refuge, Salamander Six, and Ascension Epoch
On the off chance you haven’t gotten fed up with hearing Shell and I interviewed about our books, you’ll want to tune into Anthony Caprio’s excellent Free Cities podcast, especially if you are of a libertarian persuasion. In this episode, we focus primarily on our non-superhero stories, House of Refuge and Salamander Six. We also […]
When do superheroes sleep?
I was going to trumpet that The Dismal Tide got two more four-star reviews on Amazon, but I’m sure you’re tired of seeing posts about all our good reviews. Luckily, one of them gave me an idea for this blog post about the Irregulars’ sleep schedules. Reviewer Sean C. Duggan wrote, in part: I still like the […]
