Tuesday Reading – “Moment of Vengeance” by Elmore Leonard

If your anything like me, you are still thinking about Elmore Leonard in the days and weeks after this passing.  Just a few days ago I pulled out the amazing collection – The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard and read through a few of his classics.  When I was a kid I had a audiobook that … Continue reading →

Tuesday Reading – “Spear and Fang” by Robert E. Howard

I have been a little absent from the blog as the Dissertation writing and revising has heated up.  There will be some more updates later in the week, but I have been thinking a lot about Howards work lately.  Mostly because I have been reading some of his collected comics of Conan.  He was one … Continue reading →

Putting Together An Anthology – Getting the Word Out

  When I first came up with the idea for an anthology of Ghost Hunting stories, I had no idea how to get my Call for Stories out to writers. The first thing I did was hit Google.  My original thought was that I could hit a ton of Ghost Hunting sites and they would … Continue reading →

Putting Together an Anthology – Starting With an Idea that You Enjoy

I thought I would write down some of my thoughts about putting together the Hunting Ghosts anthology I edited for Black Oak Media.  Read on if you enjoy this sort of thing. First of all, I have to say that I am no expert at putting together an anthology.  This is not meant to be … Continue reading →

Solomon Kane

As I prepare next week to teach Robert E. Howard’s fabulous short story, “Pigeons From Hell,” I see that the Howard journal, Two Gun Raconteur has a Time Line for my favorite of Howard’s creations, Solomon Kane. Conan was the first Howard I was exposed to, my mother handing me a weathered book of his … Continue reading →

Frontier Creation: The Discarded Intro to my Prospectus

As I first started to piece together ideas for my dissertation prospectus, I was amazed by the fact that within the negotiations of peace that ended the Revolutionary war lay the first political seeds of Manifest Destiny. Though writing about it helped me dig into my actual dissertation topic, I removed this historical discussion from … Continue reading →