onefinemess | June 25, 2010
Go me. I set out to hit 200/180 or better – and I did, so there’s some geek pride for you. Usually, whenever I get up 18-20, the matchmaker starts putting me with teams that are obviously worse than me (which is saying a lot), or a bunch of leavers – it wants you to [...]
onefinemess | June 22, 2010
I admit, the first song threw me. The chorus is a bit forced. It is. It sounds a little like they had a cool phrase (“American Slang”) and tried to write a song around it. Not that there’s anything wrong with that – plenty of songs are written that way. But it doesn’t quite work [...]
onefinemess | June 22, 2010
So, I’m reading Battle Cry of Freedom, and it’s totally not boring. “Of course it’s not!” you say, “This is gripping shit!” Sure, fine, but that’s you. If you asked my what I read on an average day last year I would have said “genre fiction, random non-fiction, and histories of places other than the [...]
onefinemess | June 16, 2010
So, I was going to wait another week or two to talk about queries (give it till the 2 month mark, I figured) but you know… what the hell, right? So, let’s throw some #s out first: [all in reference to my first book, THE CASE OF THE SHATTERED SOULS, an urban fantasy (*1)] 21 [...]
onefinemess | June 13, 2010
and by “stupid”, I mean “retconnish”. Wee Baron Zemo, after a fucking DECADE of character work, is back to being a stupid villain. Annnnnd he’s taking Fixer with him. Except that Fixer is currently working with the “new” Thunderbolts… which is also having a Zemo appearance? But whatever, this Fixer was cool with building a [...]
onefinemess | June 12, 2010
While DC has been busy killing its legacy heroes and sticking them in matchboxes, killing/resurrecting/de-titling and de-aging them, and bringing back the originals (Green Arrow, Green Lantern, Superman, Batman, etc. – there are still a couple of legacies left in Justice Society), Marvel is swinging for the fences with the new/current Captain America. Of course [...]
onefinemess | June 11, 2010
The Hammer of the Sun (The Winter of the World book 3 of 3) by: Michael Scott Rohan There are many different ways to judge the quality of a book, I think. Some stand out on a technical level, others shine in their mastery of wordcraft, or worldbuilding, or believable characters. There’s also “emotional impact”, [...]
onefinemess | June 10, 2010
Uncanny X-Men 525 continues to do exactly what you’d expect it to. Hope throws a tantrum that may spell bad things, not to mention foreshadows a connection to Cyclops (or tosses out a ruby herring – Cyclophoenix??). Other than the tantrum, nothing much happened here – lots of threads were pushed along, but none got [...]
onefinemess | June 6, 2010
Once again, I’m amused/nonplussed/annoyed/confused/gassy about the current state of “fantasy” covers. Nothing personal against any of the authors – as I have a pretty good idea how much say authors can be limited to when it comes to covers, and the books may well be wondrous troves of deep, enriching fantasy goodstuff. So, let’s just [...]
onefinemess | June 4, 2010
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by: Steig Larsson So. I don’t usually read “crime fiction”, or whatever this is. Mystery? Maybe? I mean there was definitely a mystery or four involved. Anyway, whatever it was I decided to bite the bullet for once and see what all the fuss is about. And was pleasantly [...]
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