If you follow the posts on this site, you know how much I love Greg Sisco. Who’s Greg Sisco? The most genius writer/cinematographer/actor/stand up comedian I’ve seen in a long time. You don’t know him? O.M.G. First, let me paste his profile and bio here (from Goodreads). There are two personality traits I can recall…
There’s no easy solution to my dilemma, no cure to my artistic freedom. I want to escape from a world I know too damn well, but for what outlet? Running without a goal seems pointless. Achieving nothing but the simple action of being brings only tears to my soul. I have to find my truth.…
I was looking for inspiration. I started brainstorming. What could I blog about this week? Angels? No. Demons? No. Love? Death? Anti-heroes? Nope. I started typing “fairies” in a Google search, and I landed on “Fairies and Vampires” and the first link took me to a “Vampire Fairy Twilight Goth Emo Punk Sk8er Roleplay Gaming…
There’s a line in a song by Nickelback that says “sex is always the answer, it’s never a question”. The theme of “how much sex is too much sex in a novel?” has been done and redone, and I’ll stay away from it. Instead, I’d like to talk about how much I love sex in…
How close are you to knowing who you truly are? We’re made of positive and negative attributes that constantly battle each other to reach a balance we’ll find only in death, because life is all about struggle. When I read a fantasy story involving fallen angels, I always wonder why they fell in the first…
Today, we’re talking YA fantasy novels. Did you notice most MCs in YA novels are hot? I like to call them eye candy. Well, since they’re in books, let’s call them mind candy. The definition of mind candy is something intended to be attractive without being demanding or contributing anything deeper than what’s left to…
This week on Sweet Fantasy Bytes, we’re talking chocolate and end of the world. Chocolate comes from fermented, roasted ground beans of the Theobroma cacao, or cocoa tree, and can be retraced to both Mayan and Aztec royal and religious events. Priests offered cocoa seeds to the gods and presented chocolate drinks during sacred ceremonies.…
The Zona by Nathan Yocum My rating: 5 of 5 stars Picture the end of the world as we know it. Imagine our civilization vanished into thin air. Think of a world where the infrastructure and the government are gone. Chaos? Not so much. A new order has arrived. The Church controls western territories that…
How much do you think of food when you write? Food usually drives our body and mind to a safe place, where we feel nurtured, comfortable and happy. One would think in the every day life eating is necessary for our sustenance, strength and good health. But in the fiction world, eating doesn’t seem essential…
The Manicheans 