Done With The Geek Community

I've been a part of the geek/fan community since I was 7-years-old. I am now 29 and I'm officially washing my hands of it. It is not the community I grew up with anymore. Over the past couple of years, it has become something fake and unrecognizable. This coupled with a number of recent events has made it crystal clear that I am no longer welcome.

I'm deleting all related posts. Sorry everyone. That's just how the cookie crumbled.

Found A New Place

I've found myself a great little bachelor apartment in Gatineau. I move in on the 2nd. So excited :D

Thank You Again, Erik

Once again, Erik over at This Kid Reviews Books has posted a very humbling review of my work. This time, for All Hallows Eve Vs. Fantomas books 1 and 2. Thanks once more, Erik.

Nerd Corps

The people at Nerd Corps are pretty awesome. I think that they are the only company who can reject your work and make it feel like a positive experience. My recent conversation was the second time I had spoken with them. The first time was back in 2006, when I applied for a job as a storyboard artist. Asaph Fipke seemed really interested at the time, but then a number of things happened in my personal life and I had to back down from the opportunity. I know that when I start pitching stuff again, they'll be the first place I'll go. Even if I don't get accepted, I know that they won't make me feel discouraged.

Meet Mina And Dramira

Hi, everyone. I just want to bring someone to your attention. Mina is an excellent writer of macabre and oftentimes sensual stories featuring her creation, the beautiful and deadly Dramira. While she has not published any of her work, she has made a lot of it available to read online. Be sure to check out her Facebook, Tumblr and DA pages as well.

She's awesome :D

EDIT: Silly me, I forgot to include her website too!

Cheap Smut

You may be wondering why I stooped to writing cheap smut as well as my regular fiction. The answer is simple: Despite all the flaming, more people are interested in it. It's what people actually read.

And if just 1% of the people who complained about my erotic works could have been bothered to check out my empowering kidlit featuring a totally non-sexualized superheroine whose costume covers everything from the neck down, I wouldn't have felt pressured to write smut at all.

Bad Drama

Seriously, everyone. Start differentiating between "good" drama and "bad" drama and stop ham-fisting Z-grade melodrama into everything genre under the pretense that doing so somehow makes it more highbrow. If you're not sure what constitutes "bad" drama, take a good look at anything "dramatic". If it has a heavy emphasis on a tragic backstory, a protagonist whom you pity more than anything else, an overbearingly depressing tone, sad "good guy" characters and stereotypically sociopathic "bad guys", chances are it's "bad" drama. If you need a hand defining "good" drama, allow me to help. "Good" drama tends to be developed by looking at the story's central theme and asking yourself "how does this theme come to bear on these character's lives?". If it doesn't come to bear, it's just padding.

If you don't really get the idea of drama being "bad", stick to painting instead.

We always talk (and laugh) about bad horror, sci-fi, action, etc. Bad drama is worse than any of them.