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My Crackpot ASoIaF/GoT Theory: Who’s Your Daddy Edition

I have a theory about the “end game” of Game of Thrones. Technically, these are not spoilers. However, if hearing someone speculate about the end of a story would ruin it for you, stop reading. I mean it. Stop. DUDE! Why are you still reading? There have been references throughout the series to the three-headed dragon. My theory is that the three heads represent Daenarys Targaryen, Jon Snow, and Tyrion Lannister. Now you’re thinking, “Big fucking deal! I already thought of that.” LET ME …
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Tim McBain vs. the Book of Pure Evil

When I was 4 years old, an evil book became the center of my universe. See, the cover was terrifying. (Even more terrifying than the one with Charles Manson’s green face on it, which I had made the mistake of making eye contact with and then backed out of the room in slow motion a few times.) This cover had what I believed to be the face of an actual dead person on it – the skin puckered in odd places, the eyes were …
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Spoiler Alert: L.T. Vargus is two people.

L.T. Vargus has a new book coming out in less than a month, but there’s something you should know first. See, the author L.T. Vargus is two people. Well, it was two people. Now it is one person. But let’s start at the beginning. A writing team – a dynamic duo consisting of one woman and one man – toiled over the novel Casting Shadows Everywhere some time ago, releasing it in mid-2013. At the time it seemed wise to release the book under one …
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Book Review: Secrets to Ebook Publishing Success by Mark Coker

4 things I loved and 2 things I hated about Secrets to Ebook Publishing Success by Mark Coker: Loved: 1. The book contains lots of good information about the indie ebook market. Coker cites statistics based on a study of thousands of indie releases. It reveals interesting stats both big and small such as the average word count of best selling indie ebooks and the average profitability of different price points, among many others. 2. There are many general strategies for marketing an ebook touched …
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Book Review: Empty World by John Christopher

Empty World puts forth its own subtle spin on the post apocalyptic genre. It focuses on the loneliness of the main character, Neil, as the people around him die off en masse. This genre seems to be dominated with either zombies, graphic disease deaths or groups of grizzled men wielding machine guns, so it was interesting to read something a little understated in this setting: just a lonely kid in an empty world. Something about the setup of this particular empty world captured my imagination. …
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