Here’s a preview of our 25 entries for the fifth annual SPSFC #5! Visit our team home page here for more information. Note: These initial summaries don’t include any feedback from judges, who are only just starting to read for the contest. They’re ju...

Here are the judges of Team 1.21 Gigawatts, our judging team for the 5th annual Self-Published Science Fiction Competition. For all the updates and links you could want, please check out our team homepage here. Allison Alexander Allison Alexander is...

Red Eye (from the BBC, on Hulu) was a bit of a mess. I’m always a sucker for airplane action shows, but they work better as movies, because there’s just no way to sustain tension on a plane for more than a couple hours. Last year’s Hijack (AppleTV) w...

Over the last couple months, I’ve been thinking about doing something to try to give indie authors a chance to see how they’re doing relative to others. It’s always interesting to me that indies are exponential. By that, I mean I look around the indi...

This is my last review of a full read for the Peripheral Prospectors judging team for the final round of SPSFC#4. For more information about the team and our progress, please go to the team update page here. The book is Accidental Intelligence by Bry...

This is my second new review of a full read for the Peripheral Prospectors judging team for the final round of SPSFC#4. For more information about the team and our progress, please go to the team update page here. The book is Bisection by Sheila Jenn...

This is my first new review of a full read for the Peripheral Prospectors judging team for the final round of SPSFC#4. For more information about the team and our progress, please go to the team update page here. The book is On Impulse by Heather Tex...

May was a pretty good month. I had a BookBub Featured Deal for Daros on April 30th, with the book continuing free for five days, and that netted 10,081 downloads the first day and 14,341 over the five day promo. That’s a lot of books in people’s Kind...

This is my third review of a full read for the Peripheral Prospectors judging team for the semifinal round of SPSFC#4. For more information about the team and our progress, please go to the team update page here. The book is Yours Celestially by Al H...

I saw the latest (and last) Mission Impossible today. I think the guy snoring three rows behind me for most of the length of the movie probably got more out of it. There were a few cool fights, although they were generally in quick cuts close up rath...