Pre-Order THE HAMMER FALLS Today!

The Hammer Falls is available for pre-order on Amazon now! If Gladiator meets Sin City with a cyberpunk twist sounds like your kind of gritty, dystopian thrill ride, you’re in the right place. The release date is June 1, 2019. Just click here. Thank you for your support!

Launching a New Comic Series

I’m delighted to announce the roll-out of a new comic series Legend of the Ronin. It’s been a crazy fun ride thus far. I got the opportunity to work with one of my all-time favorite artists, Val Mayerik, who did the pencils and inks, and with the dazzling awesomeness of Brittany Pezzillo, who did the colors. Issue #0 is a special teaser. Issue #1 will be available in June, hopefully just in time for a debut at Denver Pop Culture Con, formerly known as Denver Comic Con. Sort of like the Artist Formerly Known as Prince. Anyway, this teaser isContinue readingLaunching a New Comic Series

Whimsycon Schedule

This weekend, March 1-3, I’ll be appearing at Whimsycon in Denver. I’ll have a vendor table and I’ll be taking part in various panels and readings with some illustrious colleagues. Fri, 8:00 PM-8:50 PM, Critique Groups: Care and Feeding Without Getting Your Hand Bitten (Mesa Verde C – Maker)Sat, 1:00 PM-1:50 PM, Building and Cultivating Your Creative Community (Mesa Verde C – Maker)Sat, 2:00 PM-2:50 PM, Learn to Love Your Writing (Mesa Verde C – Maker)Sat, 3:00 PM-3:50 PM, Sticking the Landing: How to End Your (Mesa Verde A – Steampunk)Sat, 8:00 PM-8:50 PM, Author Readings – Harrison, Heermann, Willis (Mesa Verde B – Victorian)

The Hammer Falls – SF Action Novel

So many irons in the fire, so many things happening. Short stories coming out later this year, novels being written, screenplays in the works. The wheels are churnin’, the still is cookin’, the juices are flowin’. All that I’m learning how to play blues guitar, which has been a ton of fun. On the fiction front, I need your help with something very important. I have just launched a new Kickstarter to fund the publication of a new novel, The Hammer Falls. The Hammer Falls is a dystopian science-fiction action extravaganza. Imagine Gladiator meets The Wrestler and Sin City withContinue readingThe Hammer Falls – SF Action Novel

Novellas and Screenplays and Festivals, Oh My!

I’m excited about the way my neo-pulp steampunk noir story is getting some buzz. The novella “Where the Devil Resides” came out in Alembical 4 right before the World SF Convention. Woot! It is available in print and hardcover right now, with e-book coming soon. In a post-Civil War steampunk Florida, a minister’s teenage daughter is abducted by a band of vicious swamp rats and taken into the Everglades. To save his daughter from a fate worse than death, he must enlist the aid of an escaped slave woman, a mysterious Santeria priestess known as the Black Rose. This is excitingContinue readingNovellas and Screenplays and Festivals, Oh My!

Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

Tremendous changes over the last couple of months. I’ve put together two complete new websites, one for my real name and another for my new pseudonym, T. James Logan. Of course, if you’re an entrepreneur, you know how web sites and marketing efforts can be a bottomless rabbit hole of things to do. The ways that technology can be networked over all sorts of platforms from desktops to smart phones is mind-boggling. Integrated mailing lists, giveaways, ebook marketing, social media, all of these things have an immense learning curve, adding up to weeks spent in which nothing but ad copyContinue readingCh-Ch-Ch-Changes

How Bad It Can Get and What Comes Next

The discovery of identity theft is bound to be one of the most anxious and stressful moments a person can experience. When an identity thief gets his (or her) hands on your personal information, they gain the power to wreak havoc on your finances, credit and reputation. Minimize the chance that you will fall victim to an identity thief, and find out what to do if you suspect your identity has been compromised. Credit Sesame has created this guide to arm you with knowledge about how and when identity theft can happen, what the warning signs are, what prevention measuresContinue readingHow Bad It Can Get and What Comes Next

Launching a New Pen Name

Authors often try to keep their pen names secret, like Stephen King did with Richard Bachman for many years. But not always. Others wear their pen names on their sleeves, like Kristine Kathryn Rusch, who openly writes under a different for each genre of her books. One name for SF, one for romance, one for mystery, etc. In cases like this, it’s strictly a branding issue. I feel it is time to bifurcate my brands, so I’m launching a new pen name, T. James Logan, to represent my efforts in YA fiction. T. James Logan’s first book will be Night ofContinue readingLaunching a New Pen Name

Screenplay Wins Award

Over the weekend of February 16-18, 2018, I had the great pleasure of attending the Famous Monsters Silver Scream Festival in Santa Rosa, CA. I’m a monster geek from way back, so it was total thrill to be hanging out with film industry people and geeking out about horror films. I got to meet several icons of horror cinema: Ricou Browning, the Creature from the Black Lagoon, who was celebrating his 88th birthday that weekend; John Russo, the screenwriter on Night of the Living Dead; Jackie Kong, director of the cult classic Blood Diner; Kelli Maroney, actress in such horror classics as ChoppingContinue readingScreenplay Wins Award