This Friday marks the premiere of the final season of Starz’s fantastic series Spartacus. As I’ve mentioned before, I’m a big fan of the series, ranking it just behind HBO’s Game of Thrones in terms of quality. Here’s a description of the upcoming season, aptly titled Spartacus: War of the Damned, from Starz’s website: Gaius Claudius Glaber…
I have learned a thing or two about gambling this past month. The first lesson is: don’t make a wager with your spouse unless you know with certainty that you can win (seriously, this should be a maxim in life). The second is: don’t bet on the film version of a worldwide fantasy classic if you’re limiting…
This past week, the Wayward Herald came across a post in The Passive Voice about the closing of a number of Barnes & Noble bookstores across the U.S. The numbers quoted in the post, which comes from an article at Melville House titled The Wrong Goodbye of Barnes & Noble, are alarming: If you include…
The newest novel from one of my favorite authors, Bernard Cornwell, was released this week in the U.S. My copy arrived yesterday from Amazon and it looks fantastic. Here is an image of its very cool cover. 1356 is the latest novel to feature Thomas of Hookton, the protagonist of Cornwell’s Grail Quest Series. Thomas…
Sadly, Bilbo and the dwarves have fallen down the dark goblin hole, while the vampires still sparkle in sunlight. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey was outperformed at the domestic box office by The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 by around $28 million in the first three weeks. The Twilight film grossed $249,598,866 after its…
It took far longer than I expected to get around to reading Bernard Cornwell’s Death of Kings. I hoped to skim through the other five books in The Saxon Tales series before reading the sixth book, but that never came to pass. Eventually, I just dove into the novel, and I’m glad I did since…
My debut novel, Enoch’s Device, is now available in paperback at Amazon and the CreateSpace eStore! The novel also has its own webpage, enochsdevice.com. It was very cool to hold the first print edition of my novel in my own hands. It’s now going on the top shelf of my bookshelf, between The Arcanum and The Name…
Enoch’s Device is now up on Goodreads and Shelfari, so please tell your friends on those sites! Also, the novel is now available on both Amazon and Barnes & Noble.com. A print version should be available starting in early January. In the meantime, you can check out my new author’s page on Amazon here. It…
My new novel, Enoch’s Device, is now available on Amazon! I have long awaited this day, and I’m grateful to be able to share it with you now. Nearly a thousand years after the birth of Christ, when all Europe fears that the world will soon end, an Irish monk, Brother Ciarán, discovers an ominous warning…
I can finally reveal the cover art for my new novel, Enoch’s Device! The artwork was done by Glendon Haddix of Streetlight Graphics, who was great to work with. The back-cover blurb follows this image of the book’s cover. Nearly a thousand years after the birth of Christ, when all Europe fears that the world will…
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey opened this weekend, setting a new December record according to Box Office Mojo. The film earned $84.6 million in the U.S., which is great – but it’s far behind what I need to win my domestic wager. The Hobbit faces a long trek up the Lonely Mountain! The Hobbit’s opening…