FROM THE TOMB review of the Dicks Anthology.

I was fortunate enough to write one of the stories based around Tom Bonin's DICKS characters for this book, which was absolutetly a ton of fun. Other writers involved are the excellent James Andres, the magnificent Tom Taylor, and the incredible Jen Breach. All stories are illustrated by the astounding ( Read more... )

Another kind review of the DICKS ANTHOLOGY, this time courtesy of Broken Frontier:

http://www.brokenfrontier.com/reviews/p/detail/dicks-anthology

-- JF

 
Over the weekend, Tom Bonin released the latest installment of DICKS, his awesome occult adventure buddy pulp comic.

Tom's book has been one of my absolute favourite local  comics since I moved back to Australia in 2007. There are six or seven issues so far, a one shot and a couple of miniseries, and now the latest book is an anthology of short ( Read more... )

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For a variety of reasons, all of which amount to "I was fucking busy", it's been ages since I posted anything about my almost-complete novel, FAERIE APOCALYPSE. I had hopped to have this final draft finished by now, but it's been sitting in a drawer for a few months now. With any luck I will be able to pound out this final draft of the last chapter ( Read more... )

I'm still a bit gunshy about talking about my bigger projects on this blog, but I'm also determined to keep talking about my writing processes on this blog. I wrote about my recently completed novel, BLOODY WATERS here a couple of months back and now I'm going to do the same for my other almost-complete novel, FAERIE APOCALYPSE. (The BLOODY WATERS ( Read more... )

So, my favourite songs are ballads.

This word has come to mean 'sentimental acoustic rock'--but, originally, and correctly, a ballad is a story song. That's the kind of ballad I mean.

It's pretty simple: I'm a writer; I like stories. "I love you baby" isn't much of a story. If that was a movie, nobody except Mariah Carey would go. "Let's dance all ( Read more... )