Mad Max showed us Mel Gibson in a post-apocalyptic Australia hunting bad guys. Looks like the place ain’t gotten much better since…
I’ll admit. Chuck Wendig’s style is an acquired taste. His first Star Wars novel Aftermath is written in present tense. That…
Today marks the debut of Second Wave, Book 2 of The Amargosa Trilogy. A starship has fallen from the sky in…
The second act. The mushy middle. The saggy center. The part of a story everyone hates. OK, I know how…
Lily Tomlin in a remake of The Incredible Shrinking Man.
The great thing about writing in screenplay format is that the scenes don’t take very long to write. The bad…
The Compact Universe. The Amargosa Trilogy. What’s the difference? Are they two separate series? Well, let’s put it this way.…
Which might have been the inspiration for this… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GIiOsuDRFk
For 15 years, I wrote crime fiction under the name “Jim Winter.” I had one traditionally published novel called Northcoast Shakedown…
One of the things that came up in the Second Wave beta was how I handled point of view. For…