Kickass Heroines

TRICK OF THE LIGHT was released in audio August 2010. Now it’s the turn of TRICKSTER Novel 2: THE GRIMROSE PATH, and CAL LEANDROS Novel 1: NIGHTLIFE. Go reave them! They are available from Penguin, emusic, Audible, iTunes, etc. This is an experiment by Penguin, testing the waters for the rest of the series. If they don’t sell well, there may not be anymore of Cal’s voice live. And you know you want to hear that snark with your own ears… if only to see if they explode. And of course you will think that’s not the Cal I hear in my head. Everyone will think that because what crawls around in your brain only you know (well, and...

I saw this and I had to literally watch it twenty-five times in a row to catch every bit of scrollery, every line of verse, every flash of a scene. It is a graphic novel-style book trailer and it blew me the hell away. I’d never seen anything like it. It’s edgy, it’s beyond entertaining, and it’s so fast it could inflict seizures in Japanese children (you know the urban legend.) Bottom line: it FRIGGING ROCKS and it sums up TRICK OF THE LIGHT and THE GRIMROSE PATH–the entire TRICKSTER Series in a string of scenes and flashes of light that are pure beauty and a level of kick-ass that might exceed the books themselves. People: Heaven, Hell, or...

Most people spend July 4th celebrating independence (independence from Monty Python, Doctor Who, Torchwood, Blackadder…what kind of independence is that??) But I spent it (actually it was a three person team effort) finishing up my costume for San Diego Comic Con, where if you don’t dress up then you’re the geek. Here is the result…