I was promoting the Apex Book Company Patreon page over on my personal Twitter when a couple of savvy and trusted friends made a suggestion in response to my thoughts about an editing topic. They said they would pay real MONEY and back the Apex Patreon if I did a monthly series about editing for…
Picking the perfect book as a gift for friends and family
If there's ever a gifting trap, it's the one that happens when you decide to buy a book for someone you know. I can remember several instances over the years where I could sense that the person receiving my gifted book was unimpressed for various reasons. But why would someone be nonplussed by a gift?…
5 Great Episodes of Television of the 2010s
It's been an up and down decade. But one thing consumers have reliably counted on are quality television shows. The world burns around us, but damn if we don't have some fine TV. Here are five of my favorite episodes from the past ten years. Watchmen - "This Extraordinary Being" (S1.E6) Why not start with…
10 Favorite Television Shows of the 2010s
Have we reached peak TV? Hard to say. So many people suffer from recency bias and are quick to declare what they just watched the Best Thing Ever. I remember thinking in the 1990s that The X-Files could never be topped. Then in the 2000s it was The Sopranos. These days, I still love both…
MOVIE REVIEW: Climax (directed by Gasper Noé)
The films of Gasper Noé typically leave me cold. I watch them, I recognize that a director of great skill has created the movie, but the content leaves me unmoved. I'm by no means a Noé connoisseur. He's produced a lot of work, but I have seen four of his films now: Irrévisible, Enter the…
IN OTHER WORDS: Zig Zag Claybourne on If You Can’t Love the Words You Want, Love the Words You’re With
In one thousand words I’m gonna tell you why you love writing. I had no idea I’d ever get divorced. I loved my wife. We’d not only been lovers during that relationship from day one onward, we’d been friends. We were the kind of couple who’d spontaneously reach out to hold hands for no reason.…
Baby Steps Back Into the World
Let me preface all this to say something important. Thank god it was not cancer. Despite all that I've been through, I count myself lucky. In February, I had a triple mandibulectomy resection due to an aggressive, but benign, cyst. Approximately 80% of my mandible was removed and replaced with a length of my fibula…
Unpopular Opinions: Horror Movie Edition
It's Halloween, the greatest holiday, and today I wanted to unleash my ornery side by sharing horror movies that I think are much better than most people will admit. I expect most people who read this list to shake their head and mumble "Jason, Jason, Jason..." All I have to say to that is that…
IN OTHER WORDS: E.D.E. Bell on Hand-selling at Events
Last week I put out a call for guest posts from people who have something genre-related and creative to share. It didn't take long for someone to step up. If you'd like to promote something send me an email via my contact form. -- Jason One of my favorite things to do as an author…
Accepting Guest Bloggers
I'm constantly promoting myself. My books. My editing. My publishing company. I'm sure it's a real chore to sift through. So I'd like to give back a little by making my little space in the corner of the internet available to others for sneaky self-promotion. If you have a book, movie, comic, Kickstarter, or whatever…
