by Wade | Sep 29, 2021 | Reader Updates
Remember that thing I told you about in July that I couldn’t tell you about? No longer! Earlier this year, I joined a story anthology with a space crime theme. What’s space crime? For me it’s about bounty hunters, gangsters, bank heists, and con...
by Wade | Sep 8, 2021 | Reader Updates
In Badlands Born, the crew gather their supplies from Curdy’s Grocery, Jasmine’s childhood grocery store. The fictional store blends two places from my youth: an old Wisconsin tavern on Highway 13 and a neighborhood grocery store two towns over. They’ve always stuck...
by Wade | Aug 18, 2021 | Reader Updates
It’s that time in my daughter’s life where we’re visiting colleges in hopes of eventually picking one that fits. Now when I was her age, I already knew where I was going, so I never felt the need to visit other campuses. Likewise, I picked a large...
by Wade | Jul 21, 2021 | Reader Updates
Ocean’s Eleven, The Sting, American Gods. I love a good con story, and I was hoping Loki would deliver something similar. A good con story at its heart a magic trick, a story within a story that fools you, then shows you how it was done. The character of Loki is...
by Wade | Jul 7, 2021 | Reader Updates
I hate it when authors hint at some new project they’ve started but can’t reveal any details. Why waste my time? Just tell me when you can speak freely, okay? Otherwise it feels like someone dancing around singing “I know something you don’t...
by Wade | Mar 15, 2021 | Reader Goodies, Reader Updates
About two months before I graduated from high school, my mother got into a habit of reminiscing over things I did as a toddler and how small I used to be. It irked teenaged-me because the repetition became so predictable, like a script read over and over again. I got...
