Howard Andrew JonesTrenches of Valor
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
The other day I mentioned a great solitaire war game I’d tried out from Victory Point Games , Empires in America. I ended up blogging about that over at…
Counting Down
Monday, October 29, 2012
In the next few weeks I’ll be receiving my copies of The Bones of the Old Ones. It’s one thing to hold the advanced reader’s copy. It’s another…
Music to Write of Arabia
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
I’ve held various career plans over the years, beginning with my ambition to be a double-nought spy, a starship captain, or another Beatle. I also wanted to be…
Manly Movie Week, Part 2
Monday, October 22, 2012
Last week, while my wife and daughter were out of town for seven days, my son and I sat down with a pile of movies I was pretty…
Writing Sword and Sorcery
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
I spent so much time writing that gargantuan overanalysis yesterday of what manly movies I’d been watching with my son I’m going to keep things really short this…
Manly Movie Week
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
With my mother now in a rehab facility following her heart attack, I was less than comfortable with the idea of taking off on the scheduled family vacation….
Heroic Fantasy and Imagined History
Thursday, October 11, 2012
I wanted to point all of my regular readers over to the site of James Enge today. He took an interesting post live about our assumptions on the…
I’ve Got a Star!
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
I woke up yesterday to discover I’d gotten a starred review at Publisher’s Weekly. Well, not me, but my next book, The Bones of the Old Ones! Here’s…
The Real World
Friday, October 5, 2012
It’s been seven days of unpleasant surprises in the real world, which has meant the writing world has slowed to a crawl. One of my favorite professors passed…
