Learning from Others
I have often said, “Every book has its own lesson to teach, even the bad ones.” Okay…now you’re looking off to the right and seeing the cover for the latest Richard Castle book and you’re...
View ArticleTwo Writerly Movies
Over the New Year’s Day holiday, we screened a bunch of movies. There were a couple “meh” movies, but also several I liked (and I’m pretty hard to please), so it was a good movie-weekend for us. But of...
View ArticleBig Damn Hero — Book Review
Knowing I'm a die-hard Browncoat, you might think I'm about to go all gosh and gee-willikers about Big Damn Hero, the first official Firefly novel. And you'd be wrong.
View ArticleFirefly’s The Magnificent Nine – Review
As regular readers know, I'm a Browncoat for life. However, I am not the sort of über-fan who will buy anything they slap a "Firefly" logo on. A series of novels, though? Sign me up.
View ArticleFirefly: Generations – Book Review
The previous titles in this series were (to put it mildly) a tremendous disappointment. Lebbon, though, improves upon those titles by an order of magnitude, if not more.
View ArticleFirefly: Life Signs-Book Review
It may surprise some, considering past reviews posted here, that I deigned to read James Lovegrove's Firefly: Life Signs, his fourth volume in the ongoing Firefly series, but I did.
View ArticleFirefly: Carnival — Book Review
On one such occasion a pro author/editor I knew provided a critique that was both the shortest I've ever heard as well as the definition of "damning with faint praise."
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