LincolnCrisler.Info !!
November 16, 2008
Check out my new site at LincolnCrisler.Info! Don’t worry about it going away just when you’re getting attached, either… once my old LincolnCrisler.Com domain is freed up again, I’ll have it directing to that site as well! Thanks!
Free “Thank You” Fiction!
November 12, 2008
Told ya’ll a couple weeks ago I’d drop some free fiction on ya. Here you are:
Let me know what you think. And thanks again for all your support!
Brian Keene’s Castaways
November 5, 2008
Another book that made me SQUEEE! when it showed up in my mailbox; Brian’s books are modern escapist horror at it’s best and I haven’t read one yet that didn’t leave me wishing there was more.
Castaways, however, was my first… self-contained, shall we say, Keene book. Not that I’m the world’s expert on Keene’s books; there’s a lot I haven’t read, but most of his books end in such a way that there’s room for more. My favorite piece of evidence to support this claim is The Conqueror Worms, reviewed elsewhere on this blog. Only one book, and there wasn’t going to be another one because Keene’s publisher said the Worms didn’t sell like his zombie work. So Brian’s giving his fans a sequel chapter by chapter, week by week on his website.
But I digress. Castaways is, essentially, the show Survivor if they really made those guys work for it. I won’t ruin the details here, but Keene doesn’t pull any punches with this one, and nothing that happens is worth getting a million bucks at the end. Keene treats us to a large cast of characters, each developed enough that you’ll get in tune with how they live and be sorry when they… yeah, I’m not telling. There’s greed and backstabbing and savage-pygmy-missing-link creatures. And the whole book is a tribute to the Most High and Awesome Richard Laymon, so that alone should indicate the goodness that awaits.
Castaways comes out in February. Pre-order yours NAO.
Warren Ellis’ FreakAngels Volume One
November 4, 2008
Great stuff. Not sure where the story’s headed, but it’s funny, engaging and entertaining. Not to mention well drawn. Hats off to Mssrs. Ellis and Duffield. You can read the issues comprising Volume One (and the first few issues of what’ll be Volume Two) for free at FreakAngels.com, but we all know there’s nothing like a hard copy of someone’s really good work. Plus, I just like supporting Mr. Ellis’ work; he’s an inspiration to me. Which reminds me, I have a copy of Crooked Little Vein coming any day now. Yay!
Here’s the post Warren put up on MySpace:
Out from Wednesday in North America, out from Thursday in the UK and other territories — collecting the first 144 pages of the FREAKANGELS webcomic.
Please, in the name of whatever you worship or desire, please buy one. I am so old and knackered that I have to resort to prostitution and monkey glands just to get through each day. And I’ve got to tell you — I don’t make as much as a prostitute as I used to.
Deborah LeBlanc’s Water Witch
November 3, 2008
Water Witch was a pleasant surprise in my mailbox a few weeks ago, and I took it to the field with me when I went last month. Why not? I hadn’t read Ms. LeBlanc before, though I’d heard her mentioned in passing, but I hadn’t read a bad Leisure novel yet and I do enjoy discovering new authors.
I wasn’t disappointed. I took Water Witch along when I pulled a six-hour desk duty; I was twenty pages from the end when I was relieved. Witch was a fast-paced, solid story with interesting characters and an unexpected, if easily dispatched, antagonist.
While not as stand-out as say, most of the Keene or Laymon I’ve read, Water Witch was a book I enjoyed and would pass along to a friend, and I’d definitely read more LeBlanc fiction in the future. I give it 3.5/5.
Thanks For Reading!
October 17, 2008
I was a bit worried about how the site would do while I left for the field for a couple weeks, especially when the internet sucks so bad it takes 15 minutes to check my email. But I’m still getting decent reads, even with no new content. So thanks for that; I’ll have something cool for ya’ll when I get back. Free fiction or something like that. Peace.
You’ll Miss Me When I’m Gone!
October 1, 2008
I’ll be in the field for the next 18-20 days as of tomorrow night. Baby Jesus only knows if there’ll be internet, if I can get on it for any length of time, and if I’ll have anything cool to blog about if there is and I can.
On the bright side, I hope to get much writing done; I have several short stories that need completion, and 11.5 issues of Safeguard to script so that, after landing an artist, I can pimp them to a publisher and start working on Volume Two.
I Am So Trying Out For MENSA
October 1, 2008
If you don’t know what that is, here’s a description from their website:
“Mensa was founded in England in 1946 by Roland Berrill, a barrister, and Dr. Lance Ware, a scientist and lawyer. They had the idea of forming a society for bright people, the only qualification for membership of which was a high IQ. The original aims were, as they are today, to create a society that is non-political and free from all racial or religious distinctions. The society welcomes people from every walk of life whose IQ is in the top 2% of the population, with the objective of enjoying each other’s company and participating in a wide range of social and cultural activities.”
Anyhow, I scored really good on the online workout they have on their site… it’s at http://www.mensa.org/workout2.php… and it said I’d have a really good chance of passing the entrance test. There are only about 100,000 members on the entire freakin’ planet.
Try the test and lemme know how you do!
Since I’m Getting Into the Whole Creator-Owned Comic Thing Myself…
September 29, 2008
… I figured I’d share this with ya’ll.
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=18244
Can you guess whose side I’m on?
