Author Archives: JE

Not bad for an automated quiz: it picked the speech region where I and both my parents were born and raised. What American accent do you have? Created by Xavier on Memegen.net Northern. Whether you have the world famous Inland … Continue reading →

And ride in triumph through Persepolis! Is it not brave to be a king, Techelles? […] Is it not passing brave to be a king, And ride in triumph through Persepolis? –Marlowe, Tambulaine (Part One) I’m not one to run … Continue reading →

The Pantheon dome and its oculus as the Moon and the Earth. (From APoD.)

“Boy meets pig. Boy frames pig as a jewel thief. Boy loses pig, and has all his leather-clad supermodel/cat-burglar sidekicks karate-chopped into submission by pig. It’s practically the world’s oldest story.” (From the “Inventory” feature at Onion AV Club. The … Continue reading →

At the risk of vexing people who’ve seen enough about the shootings at Virginia Tech, I thought I’d pass on some messages about Jamie Bishop (a German professor at VT and son of sf writer Michael Bishop) from an unlikely … Continue reading →

This week’s Writer’s Five. Questions about where your main character lives Answered for Morlock, as usual. 1 – What type of home is it? Morlock is essentially homeless, so he lives wherever he is. By preference he’ll live in a … Continue reading →

More from Howard V. Hendrix. (Then I first saw the name a few days ago I thought it was a legal case–Howard versus Hendrix.) This installment by way of GallyCat. He regrets the inflammatory choice of words (without reference to … Continue reading →

The pixel-stains on my virtual fingers were fading a bit, so I engaged in a bit of technopeasant wretchedness by updating my egomaniacal shrine to myself website. Most of the changes are to the stories page, where I shifted things … Continue reading →

Kurt Vonnegut died last night in Manhattan (according to Reuters and the NYT).

This week’s Writer’s Five Time to get your Evil on – Questions for your WIP’s villain – Answering for the insectlike, mountain-dwelling Khroi who afflict Morlock (and vice versa) in an upcoming novella in Black Gate; I’m hoping they will … Continue reading →