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Test your science I.Q. … September 24, 2009

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The Pew Research Center has an interesting online quiz to test your knowledge of science currently in the news.

I don’t want to brag, but I scored 100 percent. The sad thing, though, is that only 10 percent of people in the United States score so well. That wouldn’t bug me so much, except that we let people in the United States vote. Argh.

– Steve

An ego boost … September 7, 2009

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OK, so I haven’t had a lot of time for writing fiction or poetry or blog posts of late. It seems every time I turn around, there is something going on. But I did have a brief writerly moment not long ago, and it was a nice little ego boost.

I was in a new library not far from our home, and saw a book on the “New Books” shelf.  It was “The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2008,” edited by Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant. So I led my daughter over to the shelf, opened the volume to the honorable mentions list and showed her dad’s name. “Wow, Daddy! You really are a famous writer!”

Well, no, I explained, but I did pretty good with that story (“The Gods-Forsaken World,” featuring everybody’s favorite resurrected sword-and-sorcery guy, Calthus). My daughter had already seen the honorable mention list in the volume I have at home, of course, but she seemed more impressed to see it in a book at a library.

To be honest, I rather enjoyed that myself. Now if I can just get the library to stock a book with one of my actual stories in it …

The odds of that would go way up if I got back on the writer train, I’m sure.

— Steve

A moment of your time, please September 4, 2009

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If you would, please, click on the SocialVibe thingy in my sidebar. You’ll spend a few seconds looking at a video of Andie MacDowell (not a bad thing) and then little kids who need food get some food.

I appreciate it, and the kids will appreciate it.

Thanks.

— Steve

‘Rage of the Behemoth’ reviewed … August 20, 2009

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Here’s a review The Cimmerian posted regarding  “Rage of the Behemoth,” the latest sword-and-sorcery anthology from Rogue Blades Entertainment.

I don’t have a story in this one, but very nice things are said about work from TW Williams, Bill Ward, Bruce Durham, Jason Thummel and other names you ought to recognize if you are a sword-and-sorcery fan.

– Steve

How to summon demons safely, from your own home July 20, 2009

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Need some demons? The fictional, sword-and-sorcery kind?

Rogue Blades Entertainment has released the table of contents for “Demons: A Clash of Steel Anthology.”

I’m in there with a bit of mayhem called “Zeerembuk.” But wait … there’s more! You also will get TW Williams, Ty Johnston, Bill Ward, Christopher Stires, Robert J. Santa and a whole lot more.

This anthology was published in another form a while back by now-defunct Carnifex Press. RBE editor Jason Waltz has taken that anthology, wrapped in a new cover and added more stories — the new book is about 15,000 words longer.

So what are you wating for? Draw the runic circle on the floor, sprinkle some goat’s blood on the flagstones and start intoning the unholy names!, Or, just click here.

– Steve