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		<title>Guest Post: &#8216;Ghost of the Asylum&#8217; author Ty Johnston</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 05:41:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fantasy author Ty Johnston’s blog tour 2011 is running from November 1 through November 30. His novels include City of Rogues, Bayne’s Climb and More than Kin, all of which are available for the Kindle (http://www.amazon.com/Ty-Johnston/e/B002MCBQRU/ ), the Nook (http://www.barnesandnoble.com/c/ty-johnston ) and online at Smashwords (http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/darkbow ). His latest novel, Ghosts of the Asylum (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00629GGVK [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stevegoblefiction.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5682487&amp;post=452&amp;subd=stevegoblefiction&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Swinging the sword again &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 07:08:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Believe it or not, I&#8217;ve had a chance to put a few minutes together lately for fiction efforts. Work is progressing, at last, on &#8220;The Infinity Swords&#8221; anthology. I&#8217;ve posted three of my previously published Calthus stories at Amazon.com, and they should be available for Kindle very soon for those of you who want some [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stevegoblefiction.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5682487&amp;post=440&amp;subd=stevegoblefiction&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Porn Princess of Mars</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 03:18:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The only way SyFy Channel&#8217;s &#8220;Princess of Mars&#8221; could have sucked more is if they had used some footage from Traci Lords&#8217; previous films. Let me just say the Princess of Helium should be breathtakingly beautiful, not &#8220;rode hard and put away wet.&#8221; The choice of Lords to portray &#8220;the incomparable Dejah Thoris&#8221;  was horrible, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stevegoblefiction.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5682487&amp;post=432&amp;subd=stevegoblefiction&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Through Blood and Iron&#8221; table of contents &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 16:13:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rob Santa at Ricasso Press has put together  a table of contents for his next anthology, &#8220;Through Blood and Iron.&#8221; The call for submissions on this one mentioned Rob wanted action, action and action. I think my Calthus story, &#8220;Deep as Death,&#8221; fits that bill. If you&#8217;ve been paying attention to sword-and-sorcery and fantasy of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stevegoblefiction.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5682487&amp;post=428&amp;subd=stevegoblefiction&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Letting stories simmer &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 13:50:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the better writing tips I&#8217;ve ever heard came from a longtime newspaper columnist. He recommended walking away from the piece once you think you are done, and not looking at it again for at least a day or two. Upon returning to it and reading with fresh eyes, little things jump out at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stevegoblefiction.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5682487&amp;post=425&amp;subd=stevegoblefiction&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>DeCaprio? As Travis McGee?</title>
		<link>http://stevegoblefiction.wordpress.com/2010/04/02/decaprio-as-travis-mcgee/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 03:47:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not seeing it. That&#8217;s the rumor, though, concerning a Hollywood movie based on John D. MacDonald&#8217;s adventure-seeking, mystery-solving, life-pondering detective. A big-budget McGee flick could be way cool, but I just don&#8217;t see Leo pulling this one off. I&#8217;m not sure who else I&#8217;d pick, but &#8230; &#8211; Steve<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stevegoblefiction.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5682487&amp;post=422&amp;subd=stevegoblefiction&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pulpy goodness &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 05:47:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[See those books I&#8217;m holding? That&#8217;s a mere random sampling from the three grocery bags full of paperbacks Gere and I netted from a friend who wants to create more space in his home. We traded a bottle of awesome hootch for the Saint, the Continental Op, Brother Cadfael, Modesty Blaise, some Sherlock Holmes knock-offs, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stevegoblefiction.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5682487&amp;post=415&amp;subd=stevegoblefiction&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Gram&#8217;s Gift,&#8217; a Faceless Sons story, reprint coming to Residential Aliens &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:08:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Keep your eyes peeled for Residential Aliens, print issue 2. That issue will include a sword-and-sorcery story from me called Gram&#8217;s Gift. The piece is part of my Faceless Sons cycle, in which I recount the exploits of three masked brothers who hunt down the demons unleashed by their power-mad father. Another Faceless Sons tale, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stevegoblefiction.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5682487&amp;post=407&amp;subd=stevegoblefiction&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: &#8220;The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein&#8221; by Peter Ackroyd</title>
		<link>http://stevegoblefiction.wordpress.com/2010/02/22/review-the-casebook-of-victor-frankenstein-by-peter-ackroyd/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 01:47:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I really wanted to like this book. My fiction reading has slowed to a snail&#8217;s pace, and I thought this book might get me back into it in a big way. I am a fan of Mary Shelley&#8217;s excellent &#8220;Frankenstein,&#8221; a fabulous blend of Gothic horror, science fiction and weighty themes. I thought a new [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stevegoblefiction.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5682487&amp;post=401&amp;subd=stevegoblefiction&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Hope&#8221; — Alex Lifeson</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:47:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Enjoy this &#8230; Who else wants a solo acoustic guitar album from this guy? Here&#8217;s another YouTube video on this. It didn&#8217;t include a code for embedding, but if you follow the link you&#8217;ll be rewarded with a closer view of Alex&#8217;s hands as he plays this. I wish the videos sounded as nice as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stevegoblefiction.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5682487&amp;post=384&amp;subd=stevegoblefiction&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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