Dragon Con Voters Nominate Souldancer for Best Horror Novel

Dragon Con Voters Nominate Souldancer for Best Horror Novel

I'm pleased to announce that my book Souldancer: Soul Cycle Book II has been nominated for Best Horror Novel in Dragon Con's first annual Dragon Awards. To refresh your memory, the Dragon Awards were conceived this year by Dragon Con in answer to SFF fans' demand for a true people's choice award.…
August 11, 201622 Comments

Patrikos

After years of watching the culture wars from the sidelines, a close friend recently decided to get off the bench and get in the game. As the primary method of delivering his considerable political/economic/social wisdom, he has chosen to start a new blog titled Patrikos. Patrikos, adj 1. paternal, ancestral,…
August 10, 201611 Comments
Grow or Die

Grow or Die

Where does food come from? If you said "Wal-Mart", you're probably beyond help and can stop reading now. Go in peace and spend the remainder of your days in whatever fashion seems best to you. If you said "from a farm" or, even better, "my back yard", I have the…
August 9, 20167 Comments
Geek Gab Episode 63: Suicide Squad

Geek Gab Episode 63: Suicide Squad

This week on Geek Gab, we give mini-reviews of Jason Bourne and Star Trek Beyond before moving on to the main event: a full review of the new DC Universe movie Suicide Squad. Did Warner Bros. learn the right lessons from the critical failure of Batman v. Superman? Or for that matter…
August 8, 20166 Comments
Gaming with Souldancers

Gaming with Souldancers

My good friend and prolific gaming blogger Ian Hagan has done a fabulous job of putting together a Souldancer template for OSR/AD&D:  Through the darkness of future's past, The magician longs to see. One chants out between two worlds... "Fire... walk with me." - David Lynch They are the hollow ones,…
August 5, 20165 Comments
Breitbart Reports on My Shadowban

Breitbart Reports on My Shadowban

Breitbart's Allum Bokhari reports on Twitter's ongoing shadowban of my account: There have been widespread reports that Brian Niemeier, a Hugo Award-nominated sci-fi author, has been “shadowbanned” on Twitter, with his tweets no longer appearing in peoples’ notifications or feeds. According to Niemeier, his followers are reporting that “they aren’t…
August 3, 20163 Comments
Unpersoned by Twitter’s Deep Shadowban

Unpersoned by Twitter’s Deep Shadowban

Having written before about Twitter's nasty penchant for censoring and outright banning users who deviate from the company's rigid left wing ideology, I fully expected the Twitter thought police to come for me. Milo Yiannopoulos warned as much. I just didn't expect them this soon. Late Friday afternoon: friends on…
August 1, 201624 Comments