Here’s a brief look over the year that was. Best Book Fun & Games – Duane Swierczynski I read this book within days of buying it. It helped I was on holiday, with a bit more time on my hands, but be damned if this thing didn’t rock my socks off. Swierczynski is a household [...]
Posted on December 29th, 2011 by ryan
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I got a book deal. I’m going to be the editor, and lead contributor, on a non-fic book of critical essays about Daredevil. It is, quite honestly, a dream project for me to work on. Daredevil is my favourite character of all time and while I’d love a run on the actual title putting together [...]
Posted on November 11th, 2011 by ryan
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I try to keep abreast of the newfangled digi-whatsits as they come out. I’m an old school guy, who loves his books and paper, but I also want to see if I can love digital. Turns out, maybe I can. I always swore books were better as something you could hold. Something tangible. It was [...]
Posted on November 8th, 2011 by ryan
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Hrmm, seems I’ve entered and run second in yet another internet contest. Cool. Duane Swierczynski (who needs little explanation here, right?) was running a contest on his site for people to take photos of themselves as some of the characters he writes. Two of them were female so I chose the one guy, Charlie Hardie. [...]
Posted on November 4th, 2011 by ryan
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Thriller is a genre but how many of those books actually thrill? Duane Swierczynski has quickly become a master of crafting books you never want to put down until you’ve gotten to the last page. Then you finish that last page and you don’t know whether to sigh, grab a beer, or hunt the author [...]
Posted on October 13th, 2011 by ryan
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THE SHINING was long my favourite novel of all time. I loved it from first touch and it reigned supreme for over a decade. It never quite stepped down, it just had something step above it, so the quality has actually held on and I don’t see it ever dropping. The tale of Danny Torrence [...]
Posted on September 28th, 2011 by ryan
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A Book Fair the size of an aeroplane hanger. That’s how it should be. Except, like a rookie, I organised to meet mates there. I felt like a fool riffling through boxes of comics and tables of books while trying to chat and catch up. This is a solo exercise, or only for the most [...]
Posted on April 5th, 2011 by ryan
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Sometimes I get trashed for not making my characters likable enough. They’re pricks or even downright assholes and so many people tell me you can’t write a novel if the reader doesn’t care about the protagonist. Apparently the world needs more cute boy wizards and angsty girls with no personality. To those people I say, [...]
Posted on May 18th, 2010 by ryan
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Sometimes you just don’t have time to say I love you, but you can still show it. Stephen King is releasing a new book just before Christmas, how fortuitous. It’s called Full Dark, No Stars. Kind of an emo title, but I’m sure King will make it all so much more awesome. There will be [...]
Posted on May 15th, 2010 by ryan
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Man, this book was some weird shit. I could almost leave it at that. Michael Moorcock just spent like 160 pages melting my brains out my ears. This is how. The Final Programme is the first Jerry Cornelius book. Jerry is a good old British lad who doesn’t mind a bit of the old spy [...]
Posted on March 30th, 2010 by ryan
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