The Slow Regard of Silent Things, written by Patrick Rothfuss (of Kingkiller Chronicles fame), illustrated by Nate Taylor, and published by DAW Books in 2014, is a book very unlike…
Read moreBook Review: I Don’t Want to Kill You
I Don’t Want to Kill You, written by Dan Wells and published by Tor in 2011, is the final book of the original John Cleaver trilogy. John has survived two…
Read moreAugust 2015 “To Read” List
Updates! First and foremost, the past two weeks have been incredible. August 14 was my last day as an environmental consultant. I got an opportunity in Cedar Rapids to assist…
Read moreProgress (or Lack of it)
July has been busy. When I say busy, I mean CRAZY busy. I ended up in New York City for two weeks for work, which was incredibly productive for my…
Read moreTrains
Trains was designed by Hisashi Hayashi and published by Alderac Entertainment Group (AEG) in 2013. A deck-building game for between 2 and 4 players, Trains plays very similarly to Dominion,…
Read moreWeirdly Excited
I mentioned a few weeks ago that I submitted Stormgate to a large publisher for consideration. This was my first submittal and I was optimistic that Stormgate was in the…
Read moreBook Review: Log Horizon 1
Written by Mamare Touno, illustrated by Kazuhiro Hara, and published by Yen Press New York, Log Horizon 1: The Beginning of Another World is, quite literally, the story of a…
Read moreBook Review: The Martian
The Martian was written by Andy Weir and published in 2014 by Crown Publishing. Six astronauts landed on Mars to complete the Ares 3 mission, but after only a handful…
Read moreJune 2015 “To Read” List
Since I have started taking writing seriously, my backlog of media for entertainment consumption has been backing up. On May 12, I decided Stormgate was “done” and submitted it for…
Read moreBook Review: Mr. Monster
Mr. Monster is the second book in the John Cleaver series, written by Dan Wells and published in 2010 by Tor Books. Like its predecessor, Mr. Monster is a psychological…
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