Erotica, fantasy, and horror writer.

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  1. The Worm Ouroboros
    [Reading Challenge 2018]
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  2. The Lady of the Green Kirtle (Part I) — 5 comments
  3. The Wild Lands of the North
    (and a bit about Giants)
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  4. All Things Charn (Part I) — 4 comments
  5. Worldbuilding Wednesday 8/30/17: Mundane Fare — 3 comments

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Sauron in the Bathroom

He’s trimming his nose hairs, apparently.

It’s Tolkien March!

This month I’ll be concentrating on writer J.R.R. Tolkien, with an emphasis on Middle-Earth. Essays, articles, artwork, and more!

Shields and Helms

I found these illustrations of interest and thought I’d post them here. One way to get armor and weapons right!  

Worldbuilding Wednesday 2/19/25: Elf-maids of The Silmarillion

Since I’ve been reading The Silmarillion, I thought I’d generate some names of Elven women, or as Tolkien might put it, elf-maids. Elf names all meant something in the languages he created – he was a linguist after all. In the text of the book they are explained to you, and defined again in the …

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Future Fashion

A comic book panel from the early 1970s that combines quickly fading hippie fashion with Space Age aesthetics. Even for its time, that text is pretty cringeworthy!

Worldbuilding Wednesday 2/12/25: Lost Tribes of the Bible

Since reading The Lost Gospel I became of a mind to create some mythical Biblical peoples. Like, you know, the Sodomites, who famously gave their name to the art of buggery. Everyone who took a bible class, even as a small child, knows that story: evil Sodom and Gomorrah are to be destroyed by God …

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Naughty SFF Paperbook Covers from the 1960s (Part 3)

In the previous two posts of this series I’ve concentrated on the lighthearted (back then) wink-wink smirk-smirk types of covers that sold “adult” — or those that were marketed as adult, even if they were rather tame — SFF novels. Though these might be considered sexist today, there was a humor to them, an idea …

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Worldbuilding Wednesday 2/5/25: Polish Cuisine

How did a sweet, delectable Polish doughnut called paczki, whom most people have never heard of, come to be sold in supermarkets in the weeks before Mardi Gras? Paczkis (pronounced Poon-chshee) are a traditional Polish treat made to use up all the extra flour, sugar, and eggs in the weeks before Lent, as a last …

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