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Happy Independence Day! By the time you receive this, I’ll have already spent the last few days and will spend the rest of the weekend at Anime Expo, the largest celebration of Japanese pop culture in North America, at the Los Angeles Convention Center in downtown LA. Last year’s event drew 410,000 attendees over four…

It seems like yesterday, but it’s already been three weeks since Comic Con Revolution 2026. CCR was a fun show: here are a few pics of some readers who picked up one (or more) of the Mechhaven series. It’s so fun to meet new readers and to talk with fans coming back for the next…

It’s been a pretty busy month since the last newsletter. Read below for all the great things happening: On April 18th and 19th, the members SoCal SciFi Collective*, joined the country’s largest book fair at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books held on the grounds of the University of Southern California. Attendance estimates over 168,000 attendees!…

I don’t know about you, but the last four weeks have been a blur. During that time, my family celebrated my son’s birthday, my wife’s and my wedding anniversary, and Easter. Throw in WonderCon and 2025 tax prep into the mix, and time flew like nobody’s business. This weekend I’m catching up on a few…

I recently finished Twelve Months, the latest Dresden Files novel, and it got me thinking about a piece of advice Jim Butcher often gives: don’t go easy on your characters. Their conflict drives the story forward. I translate this to mean: stop being so nice to your characters. In describing his series, Jim Butcher has said…