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So this weekend I traveled to Milwaukee, the great land of Wisconsin, to attend the Milwaukee Twisted Dreams Film Festival. I did have cheese curds. Twice. And it was glorious both times. Once deep fried, as per tradition, and once in something called Belgian Poutine. I should have taken photos of the spectacular fall colors, but I was too awestricken. Our little demon detective didn’t know what he was in for at the Times Cinema in Milwaukee. There were clearly sketchy characters about. But he settled in next to me and we watched a great slate of short and feature filmsContinue readingBest Director – Sully Storms Milwaukee

I had a great workation with the family in San Francisco this week. Feel free to peruse my photo collection. Haight-Ashbury Yes, that’s right. The place where the Summer of Love was born. Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane. I was delighted to stumble upon Borderlands Books, a bookstore that’s legendary among science fiction and fantasy writers. It was first of several iconic bookstores we visited. Golden Gate Bridge I had crossed the Golden Gate Bridge a couple of times back in 2018, but this was the first time I walked across. Its grandeur as an engineeringContinue readingI Left My Heart in San Francisco

Thanks to a wildly successful Kickstarter campaign, we now have new covers for the Ronin Trilogy. Coming soon!

I have a new short story to share with you! Call the genre slipstream because it contains elements of both fantasy and science fiction. Where is the music of Ganymede coming from? Jupiter’s moon Ganymede is the largest moon in the solar system, larger even than Mercury and Pluto, covered in a crust of water ice over a hundred miles thick, covering oceans of liquid water hundreds of miles deep. And there’s something intelligent there, something powerful enough to manipulate gravity itself. Gen33 is an expendable clone sent to investigate this “music” of Ganymede, but Gen is not prepared forContinue readingNew Short Story! “The Palaces of Ganymede”

There’s a new book review show burning up the YouTubes, Mean Reviews: No Stars Given. It’s fun and silly, a fresh take on book review shows. The first half of the show is about Tokyo Blood Magic. Enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/live/lQCB5QHSLD8?feature=share

We’re giving the Ronin Trilogy a facelift! All new editions! And with Stretch Goals we’re aiming at new, fan-driven fiction in the Ronin universe. Please help us kick this project into the stratosphere! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/travisheermann/ronin-trilogy-renovation

Last weekend, our devilish little short film Demon for Hire screened at the Days of the Dead Film Festival in Atlanta. We were nominated for five awards: Lo and behold…. I’m incredibly grateful to the festival organizers and everyone who came out to watch it in the “Let’s Get Weird” Shorts Block. It was truly an epic weekend and an incredible experience.

Woohoo! Sully’s march through the film festival world continues! Demon for Hire will be screening at the Days of the Dead Film Festival Atlanta, January 27-29, 2023. Our little demon is scheduled to appear in the “Let’s Get Weird” Shorts Block at 6:30 on Saturday night. If you’re a horror fan and/or in the Atlanta area, come and see us! We’ll be there, along with one of our cast members Dylan LaRay and Assistant Director Thomas Fowler.

Whaddaya know, I’m a filmmaker now! All these festival placements are starting to make me think it’s real. Demon for Hire had its World Premiere on October 9 at the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival in Portland, Oregon, and I must say, sitting there in the audience, it was beautiful. It was incredibly gratifying to hear a live audience laugh when they were supposed to, go eww! when they were supposed to. We must have done a few things right in the making of this little beastie. And now it’s just been selected for its second festival appearance, the Days ofContinue readingDemon for Hire – How it’s Going

You may or may not be aware that I’ve been working on my first short film for about the last year and a half, a horror comedy short called Demon for Hire. I give you….. THE TRAILER

…and they’re meaner than ever. Rogues has been out of print for several months now, but now it’s back with this snazzy new cover! Sometimes a character just charges out of my subconscious and says, “Write my story. Or else.” So of course, what am I to do except exactly that. Commander Rusk of the Black Furies demanded a story as big as he is. There are a lot of influences that went into this book. Glen Cook’s Black Company, Richard Marcinko’s Rogue Warrior series, the real-life stories of special ops warriors like Marcus Luttrell, even going all the wayContinue readingROGUES OF THE BLACK FURY are BACK…

The Complete Ronin Trilogy is now in an ebook box set! It also contains the bonus short story “The Ronin and Green Maiden”, which has been available only as a stand-alone for a while, a mini-adventure as our hero is traveling to meet his destiny. Extra bonus if you’re a Kindle Unlimited subscriber, where you can read the whole thing for free.