Josh on September 17th, 2010

Tired of vampires and looking for more genre fiction? Here’s some starting places in fantasy, super-heroics, zombie books, dystopias and time travel stories.

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Josh on February 23rd, 2010

This week, the staff at Murmur.com was kind enough to invite me onto episode 18 of the Murmur podcast for their second book club discussion.

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Josh on October 13th, 2009

As I say on the About page for this site, there are few greater pleasures than having a great book in one hand and a fantastic pint of beer in the other.  I don’t know why, then, it’s taken me so long to do a post pairing specific books with specific beers - especially since [...]

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Josh on October 7th, 2009

There’s an old saying that a writer has a million bad words in them, and they have to get them all out before they start writing well.  I’m not sure what the analogue is in video, but I think I have quite a few minutes left before I start feeling comfy on camera.

So, like I [...]

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