This is my last post for the year. I hope that those of you who are working hard on your novels this month are proceeding nicely. As for the...

I learned that last week, the artist Greg Hildebrandt passed away. When I first heard of the "Brothers Hildebrandt" I felt that th...

Did George Lucas invent the prequel? I remember when he announced that there would be prequels to his iconic Star Wars trilogy way back in t...

 As I watch yet another car drive down the street with a huge flag duct taped to the side of it, all black, with huge white letters that say...

Emperor Palpatine (not pictured) using his "Force Lightning" to destroy an armada of ships floating above his world in a nebula cl...

Sometimes I feel like I'm falling apart in my fifties. Last week (keep in mind that this was after I had the kidney stone fairy visit wh...

Next month, those of us who like the Dune story of Arrakis and the Great Houses all backstabbing each other for thousands of years get a tre...