by ObiwanSpock | Feb 17, 2016 | awesome, ebooks, fantasy, heavy metal, pulp fiction, scifi, self-publishing, sword and sorcery, The Tale of Azaran
“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent.” – Victor Hugo The writer of Les Miserables knew of what he spoke. Writing and music go together like bacon and eggs or coffee and doughnuts. You can have one without the other,...
by ObiwanSpock | Feb 3, 2016 | fantasy, fantasy fiction, gaming, publishing, pulp fiction, self-publishing, sword and sorcery, The Tale of Azaran, Zackery Arbela
The darkness of night is broke by flashes in the sky. A fireball disappears beyond the horizon. Come the morning, a pirate ship out at sea finds a lone man floating in the wreckage. He remembers nothing, not where he comes from, who his people are, only his...
by ObiwanSpock | Jan 23, 2016 | self-publishing, Zackery Arbela
Samuel Johnson famously said No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money. Which to my mind is one of those observations that is both masterful and moronic, right along the lines of you only live once (which is no excuse to act like a selfish jerk) or if you...
by ObiwanSpock | Sep 18, 2012 | ebooks, publishing, self-publishing
Way back in the 19th Century, even before the rise of the pulps, another form of cheap amusement haunted the eyes of the reading. Short, lurid, quickly written and dismissed as so much trash, it nonetheless was the most popular form of written entertainment of its...