New Podcast Up: Villains and Walking Dead Spoilers

On this episode we discuss villains. What makes a great villain? What are the ingredients for excellent and engaging villains that readers will love to hate and love to somehow empathize with? We also discuss the AMC debacle with the Season 5 mid-season finale goof where AMC actually spoiled their own program for West Coast

Texas Frightmare Weekend

Saturday I drove to Dallas, Texas to attend the annual Texas Frightmare Weekend at the Hyatt hotel at the DFW airport.  The trip was a reward for two of my children who are rabid Walking Dead fans, who were there not to see Chandler Riggs (Carl Grimes), but to get Scott Wilson’s (Hershel Green’s) autograph. We arrived

The Plot Thickens: Sweetening the Plot

I used to fear for the future of humanity in the days when Twilight was all the rage.  Now look at it.  Gone, baby, gone. And good riddance, I suppose.  You know something is passé when it garners a top 10 list of reasons why it is good that it has passed on. However, there are