Son of the Black Sword review

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I have never hidden that I’m a fan of Larry Correia’s work. He’s one of the few authors that I will buy anything he writes just because he wrote it. Almost everyone else has to sell to me. Larry doesn’t. His latest, Son of the Black Sword, is a reminder of why I buy his stuff just because he wrote it.

The story takes place in the land of Lok in a culture that departs significantly from the typical Western European settings by instead looking to India for inspiration. It follows the Protector Ashok, bearer of a weapon called an ancestor blade, as he learns something about himself that turns his entire life upside down following twenty years of putting down rebellions and slaying demons that call the oceans home, making sea travel impossible. Continue reading →

Yeah…Wheaton is right

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I’m not a Wil Wheaton fan. Not because he played Wesley Crusher. Truth be told, at the time I thought the character was awesome. No, I’m not a fan because I’ve seen him be a major schmuck online over the last several years.

No doubt, some people aren’t fans of mine for similar reasons. Fair enough.

Anyway, I have to agree with the guy on something. You see, recently he was contacted by the Huffington Post about them running something he wrote. He asked about how much they’d pay, and they responded: Continue reading →

Supergirl Kinda-Review

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I watched Supergirl last night with my family, and thought I’d share a few random thoughts about the show. I’m really interested to hear what other people think.

I’m not going to talk about the premise, or whether it was consistent with the comics, mostly because I never read Supergirl comics. Oh, don’t look at me like that. I never read much DC at all, and that means there are a lot of classic characters I just never read. Hell, I barely read Superman for that matter…and most of that was his death.

Now, about the show. Continue reading →

Halloween Week Sale!

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This week, I’ve got a couple of my books on sale for the week of Halloween. Yeah, I don’t write horror, but I do write grimness and hope coming out of it, so I’m doing to officially declare that it fits.

Deal with it.

First, on sale right now is Bloody Eden. Yes, it’s the second book in the series, but you do not have to pick up After the Blast for it to make sense. At least one person who read the series actually suggested starting with this, then picking up AtB and reading it at the point that Jason reads it.

I kind of like that approach myself.

Next, Bad Moon on the Rise is also on sale. It’s on sale right now as well. This sale expires a bit sooner, but not before Halloween.

Both of these titles are just $.99!

However, I’m not alone on this sale.

Jinxers by Sabrina Chase goes on sale tomorrow.

Young Jin survives on his own in the streets of Thama, using his wits and climbing skills to find food and shelter. On a bitterly cold night, desperate to avoid freezing, he enters the burned wreckage of a long-abandoned warehouse searching for anything of value. Searching despite the danger—for the warehouse once belonged to jinxers, and no one knows how their magic works…or how long it remains. Jin discovers a beautiful crystal sphere in the ashes—and suddenly finds himself transported to the desert world of Darha.

His foreign appearance immediately brands him an outsider, and he must rely on his Darha friends to conceal him from the mysterious rulers of the local fort. But Jin must face the fort’s dangers—for inside may lie the key to his return to Thama…and the key to his own hidden magic powers.

Also, David Burkhead has The Kinmar for sale right now.

Kreg and Kaila, knights of Aerioch, interrupt their mission to chase down the raiders that destroyed a village. Much to their surprise, the raiders turn out to be Kinmar, the half-man/half-animal remnants of the magical Changeling War. Outnumbered and surrounded, wounded, with only the strange magic of the Knightbond on their side, can they survive, much less ensure that no one ravages the people of Aerioch with impunity?

Later this week, Amanda Green’s Nocturnal Lives (Boxed Set) will be on sale. Look for it on Thursday.

These are some really great deals

Review: Andy Weir’s The Martian (Novel)

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Yes, all the buzz is about the movie starting Matt Damon (and I can’t type his name without thinking of Team America: World Police), but I’m not going to be seeing it right now. Instead, I went old school and read the book. After all, the book is almost always better than the movie. So, what did I think?

Awesome in ways I didn’t even expect. Continue reading →

Review of Chuck Gannon’s ‘Raising Caine’

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Chuck Gannon clearly understands the English language. Besides his former day job teaching the subject, just a reading of his Caine Riordan series makes it clear that he loves language. However–and this is perhaps the most important part here–he also understands that it is a tool to help convey a story rather than the something that exists for its own sake.

That remains the case in Gannon’s latest novel, Raising Caine. Continue reading →

The Problems With Enforcing a Gun Ban

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Now that the subject of a total gun ban has been broached, it’s time to discuss the practicality of this sort of thing. Luckily, Reason has a handy video for the gun grabbers to discuss just how they can do it in five easy steps.

What I want to talk about, however, is the last point: Enforcement. Continue reading →

Fisking the Washington Post on Guns

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From time to time, something comes along so stupid that I just can’t leave it alone. This time, it comes from the Washington Post. Unsurprisingly, they’re not fans of guns. Big shock.

The original will be in blockquotes while my own comments won’t be. Continue reading →

Planning a Mission

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As a science fiction writer, I sometimes consider it my duty to do something that most people would think stupid if one of their friends decided to do the same, and that’s plan a space mission. In particular, I’m going to plan out a plan to colonize a planet outside of our solar system.

Obviously, this is for a work of fiction. After all, I don’t work for NASA or any other space agency. Like I said, I’m a writer. I really want to entertain people.

I’m not close to ready to start writing it, mind you. After all, I’m still working on a space opera and I don’t have anything close to the correct background for writing about a mission like this. That means I have a butt-load of research to do so I can give myself the correct background.

Luckily, I know there are folks I know that can probably help with that. Continue reading →

Sorry for going dark

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Yes, it’s been quiet around here lately, and I apologize for that. I’ve been mostly dealing with some pretty painful oral surgery post-op and some really good painkillers. I haven’t been able to do more than screw around on Facebook and blog for work during that time.

There’s a pile going on though, and I do want to talk about it. It’s early on a Sunday morning, and I just got a part-time gig running sound for my church. I figure if they want me in church bad enough they’re going to pay me, then the least I can do is oblige. However, I also plan to have something more extensive up this afternoon. I’ve got to get back into blogging regularly. If I was under a time crunch finishing up a book, no one would complain, but alas, the new novel is far from that point.

Still, I realized yesterday that I hadn’t written anything here in a while (the day job makes it harder to keep track of that kind of stuff since I’m blogging daily there), so wanted to let folks know I was still alive.

T.L. Knighton

Author extraordinare…or something like that