Quoth Og Mandino

"Live today as if it is your last chance to prove your love and your greatness."

My Authorial Debut

The Thrilling Sequel

“Moonshine” by Alaya Johnson

First off,  if anyone ever tries to tell you that book trailers don’t work, you tell ‘em nuts to that. In the case of MOONSHINE, by Alaya Johnson, it was the trailer that sold me on the book. Not only did it capture my interest by encapsulating the book’s concept succinctly, but on a [...]

How to Train Your Dragon

Daughter and I had a rather slow, low-energy day today. We finally got to see “How to Train Your Dragon.” Liked it well enough, but I had issues.

1) The movie’s theme was that dragons are people too, and that all humans have to do to live in harmony with these sweet, kitten-like critters, [...]

Silent Spring

OK, I admit it … my blog has been very quiet lately.

It’s not for lack of stuff to post about … my daughter left for Outdoor School this morning, I need to write a review of THE LAST WITCHFINDER by James Morrow (which was utterly fantastic;  Morrow is one of my new favorite [...]

"The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms" by N.K. Jemisin

When I was at World Fantasy this past October, I attended a couple of readings that blew me away. One was a reading by Saladin Ahmed, from his yet-to-be-agented-or-sold novel (I can’t recall the title, alas). The fact that I couldn’t look forward to a specific date on which I could pick up the [...]

"The Princess and the Frog" Reconsidered

So, wait. I was lying in bed thinking about this movie, and some things about “The Princess and the Frog” are starting to bug me.

First of all, I was reading a bunch of reviews on Rotten Tomatoes to get an idea of the prevailing critical response. Many of them focus on what a [...]