Can I tell you how weird it is to sell stuff? Seriously? Especially for me, to sell art. I love painting, I love taking pics, I love drawing, but all of that is secondary to writing. This is all stuff I have said, before. I have drawn since I was a very little boy, the… Continue reading Selling Out
Category: Bloggy
Like Snowflakes…But Not
I think everyone who is creative suffers from the fear of treading familiar ground. It is natural, and not an unfounded concern. Let's face it, Man has been here for a very long time and we have told stories and created works of art since those first days and so it is to be expected… Continue reading Like Snowflakes…But Not
What we Love
I can't really tell you the day I decided I wanted to be a writer, or had to be a writer, or needed to be a writer, or whatever it is that compels us to do something. I can't tell you because I don't think there was a day, one day, where that dawned on… Continue reading What we Love
Where are the new Classics?
Of late I am reading, and reading terribly slowly, STARSHIP TROOPERS by Robert Heinlein. It's a fine book, pretty interesting but damn is it dry. Ack. I need to take a drink every five pages. Seriously. Reading the book though it occurs to me that I haven't read a sci-fi book that isn't before the… Continue reading Where are the new Classics?
Seen but Unheard
Ok, I wanted to add a bit to somethin' I said in an earlier blog about how everything should be seen, every story read, every story told, or something like that. Well, I don't change that, at all, but i do amend it in that, well, sometimes you can see why the stories are not… Continue reading Seen but Unheard
Giving it Away
Now, I dunno if anyone prefers giving a gift, talent, skill, or art away as much as they like getting something for it. It isn't that there is greed as much as a sense of value to what you do AND the fact that you do have to eat, as romantic as it is to… Continue reading Giving it Away
Submit, Submit, Submit, they cry!
So, if you are gonna do the whole writer thing, hell, I guess any arty sorta stuff, there comes the day when you must submit to the will of the Other. Submission is part of the process though. Whatever you do, whatever art you are involved in you have to submit to the public, to… Continue reading Submit, Submit, Submit, they cry!
A Novel Affair
So it's funny, at least to me, that I have posted a sample from my novel because it is a novel I never intended to write. It isn't that, you know, I never WANTED to write a novel but... Shit, let's be honest here, I NEVER wanted to write a novel. Never. Ever. Never ever.… Continue reading A Novel Affair
Publish Thy Self
I think the two great fears of any writer, hell, at least me, are no one caring about what you are writing and finding no market for what you write. Well, the older I have gotten and the more I have read I have realized that, well, it's true, there really is someone for everything.… Continue reading Publish Thy Self
And Now the News (and its none too slow death)
I had a thought the other day that really worries me - that we are, bit by bit, losing the news. It is strange, as the world expands with blogging, websites, and personal account reporting you would think that we would be getting more news than ever and, to a degree that is true, but… Continue reading And Now the News (and its none too slow death)
Coming Soon…
So, I have always had interesting jobs, if nothing else, I can say that. Now, these are, sadly, not always well paying jobs but, well, they are interesting. One of the two jobs I have right now is at a collectibles store that deals mainly in records and books but has a lot of stuff… Continue reading Coming Soon…
My Interview with Wolfman Mac
An Interview With Wolfman Mac of Wolfman Mac’s Nightmare Sinema Imagine a day when movies were not at your fingertips. A time when you couldn't easily rent something, or find it on cable. Remember a time when you had to find the movies that would help to form the person you were to become. I… Continue reading My Interview with Wolfman Mac
The Con Game (OR How Not to Fix Comic and Culture Conventions by Bitching)
Now, far be it from me to have an opinion on something like, oh, doing conventions, but I have done a few now - close to ten, I forget how many, to be honest, but closer to ten and since 1994, with some years of not doing them in between - but, well, I have… Continue reading The Con Game (OR How Not to Fix Comic and Culture Conventions by Bitching)
The Spooky World of Chris Ringler 