I thought of what I might post today, but nothing compares to the pure creativity that is this short film. It’s three minutes long and combines several techniques to achieve this striking narrative. Edson Ova deserves his first place, because this is beyond magnificent and just validates the truth that a storyteller can tell a story with just about anything. Read More The Writer - Short Film by Edson Oda
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As part of the recovery process, I shouldn’t really exert myself with unnecessary typing. This lil’ peace of heaven pretty much fills up this category. I have made a promise to provide a content as a means to facilitate my personal and professional growth, yet I’m positive my writing right here will amount to less than expected. Read More Decisions, decisions, decisions
It’s been eerily quiet, which is never good once you make a grand promise at being a little chatty brat and talk, talk, talk, but life as usual has been excellent at surprising me in the most intriguing ways. I have been silent (here and on projects) for two predominant reasons, okay, maybe three.
Read More Last Monday of January: A Month of Non-Accomplishment
I have been a bit absent as I have been dealing with a rather nasty case of the aching fingers, but I have some self-promotion to do. Today sees the official publication date of the anthology “Arcane II” edited by Nathan Shumate, which features my short story “Hurricane Drunk”. This is my first anthology publication and it took a rather winding road to get where it is. I’m happy. For more of the anthology, here is a the table of contents: Read More Arcane II (with my story “Hurricane Drunk”) Goes Live!
Are they working against feminism through their self-representation as sex toys or are they actually strong women who are completely in tune with their sexuality and thus in charge of their sex drive? Read More Sound of Sunday: Carnal Savagery from the Ukraine
Welcome to Scribbled Saturdays (I have a thing for alliteration, don’t judge me), where I will be sharing the fantastic art I discover through my wild and intense browsing sessions (you haven’t heard a computer mouse as tortured as mine, when I stumble on a good tumblr blog). While I’ll stick to illustrations and single works, I intend to feature comics, be they traditionally published or otherwise as comics compromise a good deal of my reading. Read More Review: “Tails” by Ethan Young
So Harry was kind enough to ask me contribute something about writing and professionalism. I’m going to assume you know the three basics:
• The necessity of tweed jackets
• The essential nature of coffee shops
• The need to publicly hang those who hate on Scrivener
(I make fun, but I do in fact on a corduroy jacket that I wear to make myself feel more authorial. But don’t tell anyone because I’ll sound like an idiot).
Humor is underplayed in speculative fiction. Most titles I read tend to revolve around grim, dark and drab events, characters are thinned to a tether of resilience and motivation to push through an unforgiving chain of events and the language feeds on grit. So I found it highly surprising that an author could make multiple apocalypses fun. Yes, fun. Read More Humor is the Silent Killer - Review of Jonathan Wood’s Fiction
As I’ve been too involved with meeting academic deadlines for the past week and a half, I have yet to sit down and write a proper review of what 2012 meant to me. 2013 started with the pop of the pistol and it’s time to sprint – so I run, mentally mostly. My brain has been offered as one of the tributes and now has to deal with The Hunger Games, mental edition, hence I’m writing this with my hair still wet.
I’m very happy to see that “The Tracks that Tower over Valleys”, my first ever sold short story, received a good review over at the British Fantasy Society site. Glen Mehn summarized it best here:
“Harry Markov’s “The Tracks that Tower over Valleys” takes us to a future Bulgaria which echoes Dickens’ age of uncertainty for the poor: The entire country has been turned into a theme park and the poor scratch out their living by trying to terrify tourists – until real terrorists step in.”
Read More “The Tracks that Tower over Valleys” reviewed at BFS