A recent study carried out by the Cooperative Children's Book Center at the University of Winsconsin found that less than 3% of children's books in 2013 featured black characters. Everyone kn
Is that a lightsaber in your pocket or are you just happy to see me? The Star Wars Instagram has just posted a brand new clip from Star Wars: The Force Awaken
Okay, an "option" is you have the "right" to make a project; there's no director, writer, actors, studio or release date yet...
But it is a start...
http://www.theroot.com/blogs/the_grapevine/2015/09/octavia_butler_s_dawn_is_coming_to_tv.html
Read more…I'm excited to inform you that I'm the new voice of the Deadstar Animated Movie Series! He's
Deadstar: The A
Read more…There was a meme a while back where this befuddled guy is saying, “Star Wars? Jurassic Park? Terminator? Mad Max? What year is this?” You may be saying that as well, as you’re taking your kids (or grandkids) to movies you saw when you were their age.
When we first met Max Rockatansky (Mad Max, 1979) he was a police officer in an Australia that was not quite dystopian but certainly just a couple of power outages away. We next saw him sometime later, Somewhere in the Outback (Mad Max 2, bka The Roa
I sent my iPhone into space on January 19, 2006 and it finally reached Pluto which promptly took a selfie of itself and texted the images back to me... Oh wait iPhones weren't even invented back then my bad! Lol
Anywho...
Now that the New Horizon has s
Read more…Deborah Johnson has won the 2015 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction for her book, The Secret of Magic. Johnson has made history as the first woman and African-American author to win this award.
Here’s more from the press release: “The prize, authori
Read more…That awkward moment when cosplayers do a better Apocalypse than a major Hollywood production.
http://nerdbastards.com/2015/07/16/first-official-look-at-x-men-apocalypse-psylocke-apocalypse-magneto/
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Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
Posted August 13 2015 — 9:41 AM EDT
In 1978, Marvel comics published Devil Dinosaur, a story by Jack Kirby about a red Tyrannosaurus Rex and his caveman-like friend, Moon-Boy. The series itself was short-lived, but come
Read more…For the sake of not having my posts deleted by someone who has control of the thread let's go all in shall we...
https://explorable.com/science-fraud
With so many corrections made in science like when those pictures were text messaged back to Earth sho
Read more…Last Friday my boy Ronald T. Jones did an interview with our resident "Japanegro" William Hayashi on Genesis Science Fiction Radio!
If you missed it you can find the link right here...
http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/talkCast.jsp?masterId=127374&c
Read more…I'm the founder of Starbase Phoenix Publishing, an Imprint under Event Horizon Publishing. As a result, I have been able to get books in my Imprint listed on Baen and Kobo books, and that's just the beginning. They plan to branch out to other Sci-Fi/
Read more…Greetings all, I need your help! Please vote for me to win this short story contest. I've never done one before, but this is an excerpt from my forthcoming novel, and I figured it would be good for publicity.
For those of you who have read any of my o
| Abbreviation | Meaning |
| ?4U | I have a question for you |
| <3 | Love/friendship (more 3s is a bigger heart) |
| 121 | One to one |
| 2 | To (in texting) |
| 2EZ | Too easy |
| 2F4U | Too fast for you |
| 2G2BT | Too good to be true |
| 2M2H | Too much to handle |
| 2MORO | Tomorr |
Here's my current situation. I'm busily writing away on my sci fi stories. However, I'm also writing a religious motivational book. I'm committed to both of them. But I kind of wonder if I would look kind of indecisive if I'm writing a religious book
Read more…BRYAN STEVENSON took home Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction for Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption (Spiegel & Grau). And he gave a timely acceptance speech that had many librarians in attendance buzzing about THE BEST BOOK AWARD
Read more…ONLI STUDIOS offers downloadable products for mobile enjoyment via its Shop Tab. Their graphic novels in-print are shipped free once purchased via the Indie Graphic Novels tab and section.
BTW we want to extend the banner listing and add another.
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