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Seb Jenkins, author of Life After Death
Recently I had a chance to interview Seb Jenkins, author of Life After Death–a story about a man in his late 30s who is “plunged into an apocalyptic world of the undead” (quote taken from Life After Death description). Let’s start with a little background. (Photo courtesy of Seb Jenkins) Seb Jenkins is a 20… — read more
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Life is Once Again a Hurricane
All reviews are my personal opinion and do not reflect the views of any person or organization. Here be Spoilers. Enter at your own risk. Scrooge McDuck and the rest of the DuckTales crew are back with a new series. To celebrate Disney had a day long viewing of the first episode "Woo-oo!" on Aug.… — read more
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Where’s the riot?
All reviews are my personal opinion and do not reflect the views of any person or organization. Here be Spoilers. Enter at your own risk. Guardians of the Galaxy: Space Riot by Pat Shand has our spacefaring heroes taking a shipment of medicine to a plant people planet (try saying that three times fast) who… — read more
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I am Groot Vol. 2
All reviews are my personal opinion and do not reflect the views of any person or organization. Here be Spoilers. Enter at your own risk. Peter and gang return for more cosmic comedy in Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. In this sequel, the Guardians discover who Peter’s father is while on the run… — read more
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Doctor Who—Geek History Lesson Tells You
All reviews are my personal opinion and do not reflect the views of any person or organization. Hosts Jason Inman and Ashley V. Robinson do it again with another Geek History Lesson. Each week Inman and Robinson take one construct from pop culture and clue you in. Inman and Robinson are excellent at explaining, sometimes… — read more
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Thor will Ragnarok you
All reviews are my personal opinion and do not reflect the views of any person or organization. Thor: Ragnarok from Marvel Studios is set to release Nov. 3. In the meantime, I got to watch the trailer, thanks to the iTunes Trailers app. The trailer starts out with Thor chained in a pit or cave.… — read more
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Malicious leaves no malice in readers
All reviews are my personal opinion and do not reflect the views of any person or organization. Malicious, a James Patterson Bookshots written by Patterson and James O. Born, is another book staring Mitchum, an ex-Navy SEAL turned private private investigator (aka unofficial) and paperboy. He is called in to help his brother, Natty, who… — read more
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POV Challenge – Ace – Regrets
Point of View Challenge: Write in a different point of view than you normally do or write from the point of view of a different character. For example: I write in first-person so I would change to third or second person. Or since I usually write from the point of view of Dogboy, Max, or… — read more
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Dialogue Challenge – Hot, Hot, Hot
Dialogue Challenge: Story written in all dialgoue. There can be attribution such as “he said” or “she cried.” Internal dialogue is OK. Filler dialogue or pauses are OK such as … for someone not responsding. “Spoken” sounds like coughs, grunts, and such are also allowed. Feel free to try it yourself. “Man, it’s hot!” I… — read more
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Busted
Part 1 Part 2 Jackson “Jack” Riggs “Accessing ILOST Database,” said the base’s AI. “Accessing Brood file.” The big “Open File” button stared at me. I glanced around checking to see if anyone was near. I took a breath and opened the file. “Brood,” said the artificial intelligence. “Real… — read more