Thanks to John O’Neill at the online magazine Black Gate:after John read The Midnight Games back in 2015, he asked me if I would be interested in occasionally writing for Black Gate. I agreed, and then didn’t write a darn thing, since I was in the final convulsions of PhD completion.
Now that the PhD is done, I sheepishly asked John if the offer was still open, and he graciously agreed. He’s done a great job of designing my initial post, “Deep Pockets – Abyssal Regions.”
Over the Christmas holidays, as I figured out what I was doing with my Midnight Games sequel, I read books by Rafael Sabatini (who early in the 20th century, wrote popular historical adventures), watched a couple of movies based on Sabatini’s books, and also watched the new King Kong movie Skull Island. I was prepared not to like Skull Island, but I found it set me thinking about the early monster movies I used to see on TV, and the worlds of imagination those films opened up for me – including some of the books that they led me to read.
Ok, back to work. Wishing you all a great 2018 –
