Postmodern Lit Is Cancer

Castalia House Lead Editor Vox Day has been making a strong case that postmodern literature isn't just bad writing, but non-writing, over at his blog. First, Vox relates a discussion he had with a CH author about a bad writing habit that's baffled him for years: What we were discussing…
July 26, 201712 Comments
Elementary Storytelling

Elementary Storytelling

Over on the Castalia House blog, Appendix N author Jeffro Johnson lays out a few vital criteria for masterful writing: The truth is that effective writing is striking. It stands out. It’s so obvious that children can identify it with confidence. In fact, the classics I list above are ones that…
June 14, 20172 Comments
Why Comics Stopped Trying

Why Comics Stopped Trying

Under the able editorship of Jeffro Johnson, the Castalia House blog and the Google Plus account which he also curates have grown into an impressive meeting of the geek minds. Recently, the Supreme Nerd Intelligence deliberated the perennial topic of why American comics have lost their groove. We open with…
May 10, 201717 Comments
May the Fork Be with Us

May the Fork Be with Us

Happy May the Fourth! No doubt Disney will be using Star Wars Day as a chance to parade the zombified corpse of their converged franchise before an increasingly resentful public. Well and good for them. This year, the cool kids will be cutting Intersectional Studies class to enjoy beers, smokes,…
May 4, 201726 Comments
Let’s Try This Again

Let’s Try This Again

It is truly a delight to announce that at long last, Corrosion, The Corroding Empire Book 1 is available in the Kindle Store! Followers of this blog will know that Johan Kalsi's debut novel had a long and difficult road to publication. Saboteurs within KDP quality control didn't want you…
March 23, 201710 Comments
Amazon’s Civil War

Amazon’s Civil War

The controversy over The Corroding Empire just gets stranger and stranger. Amazon KDP has given Castalia House's new science fiction parody more green and red lights than a drag racing track. First it was thought that the book had been pulled at the behest of Tor Books, publisher of The Collapsing…
March 22, 201714 Comments
Tor Gets Desperate

Tor Gets Desperate

Today I'd intended to do a post signal-boosting the launch of The Corroding Empire from Castalia House. But when I clicked on the link in CH's newsletter, a dog informed me that the book is not to be found on Amazon. I did some digging and found out that failing publisher…
March 20, 201732 Comments
Socialists Ruin Everything

Socialists Ruin Everything

Jasyn Jones regales us with a story from SFF history of an original paradise invaded by pinkos, pedos, and Men with Screwdrivers. There was once an age, a Golden Age, an age of wonder and delight, of adventure and heroics, of creativity and imagination unbound… an age undreamt of by…
February 22, 201711 Comments
Writing Schedule Update

Writing Schedule Update

We're less than a month into the new year, and 2017 is already shaping up to be an even more significant leap forward for my writing career than the admittedly stellar 2016 was. If you've been following this blog or my social media accounts, then you've probably come across hints…
January 26, 201710 Comments