Author Archives: JE

A couple of free e-texts I learned about in the past couple days: 1.) Pyr–an imprint with very sound judgement–has decided to make Sean Williams’ The Crooked Letter available as a free e-book. Although the book has cover art so … Continue reading →

The final ballot for this year’s Nebulas is up here. I guess I have some speed-reading to do before I vote…

I’ll be participating in Flycon, the online convention that starts two weeks from tomorrow. [edited for accuracy–thanks Sherwood!]

My latest Blog Gate post is up, this one a kind of review of James Blish’s The Warriors of Day (a.k.a. The Sword of Xota).

It looks like a recent study that seemed to support Freud’s Oedipal theory slipped up, as it were. In related news, it would be great if a Ben Stiller movie, starring Anne Meara, entitled Mother Focker had just been greenlighted. … Continue reading →

1. I hesitate to mention this, given a couple of odd threads that popped up, as it were, on my last post. But if they hadn’t, I would have mentioned this anyway, so I do so. If you follow me … Continue reading →

1. I had a dumb frustration dream last night: went to the grocery store, couldn’t find a cart–that sort of thing; nothing worth blogging about. But there was one memorable line in it. A bunch of guys were standing around … Continue reading →

1. This would have been so cool! 2. This actually is cool, at least to my somewhat unbelieving eyes: the full jacket for Blood of Ambrose. (Dominic Harman blogs a bit about the process behind the cover here.) I like … Continue reading →

1. John Scalzi’s AMC column is about the long odds against any book being adapted into a movie. He couches it as bad news, but I don’t see it that way. In my feckless youth, I pined for my favorite … Continue reading →

I just posted my Blog Gate entry of the week. This one is about not beginning with the beginning, among other things.