by ObiwanSpock | May 4, 2016 | book review, fantasy, fantasy fiction, publishing, The Nine Suns, The Tale of Azaran, Zackery Arbela
The current superhero boom has been around long enough to inspire satires and piss takes – subverting the classic superhero tale is now as much of a tradition as…well, the traditional story. If you think about it, the idea of someone finding out he has...
by ObiwanSpock | Apr 21, 2016 | awesome, ebooks, Excerpt, fantasy, The Tale of Azaran, Zackery Arbela
For your reading pleasure, an excerpt from the first chapter of SHADOW OF THE GHOST BEAR, the second book of the Tale of Azaran, now on sale! Late summer winds blew across the sea, rippling the waves rolling to the shore. Birds circled overhead, wide-winged creatures...
by ObiwanSpock | Mar 26, 2016 | awesome, Dungeons & Dragons, fan fic, fantasy, publishing, pulp fiction, Sunday Linkage, The Tale of Azaran, tunes, Zackery Arbela
A man finds a portal to a magical dimension behind a Burger King and finds himself in a land populated by monsters adventurers and wizards…which he interviews via a weak transdimensional wifi. If that’s not the perfect premise for a podcast, then life has...
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 13, 2016 | awesome, ebooks, fantasy, sword and sorcery, The Tale of Azaran, Zackery Arbela
Like a lot of writers, I have a regular writing group, filled with creative types with at least a passing interest in speculative fiction in general, where we read each others work and provide what are hopefully constructive critiques…and so on. So I was there...
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...