I am happy to say that I am a nerd… on top of that, I happen to be an IT professional, so I am actually a professional nerd Although I don’t get as much time to waste on video games these days as I did in my youth, I still make time to enjoy a good game now and then. In the year 2011, we are spoilt for choice and most games these days are drenched with eye candy and popping effects, which is a pretty far cry (no gaming pun...

The word “ghost” universally scares most people, and rightly so. As human beings we fear the unknown, or as Iron Maiden very nicely titled their track “Fear of the Dark”, we fear what we cannot see. I remember many years ago (and I mean many… Sadly I’m no spring chicken anymore), I got given a movie at a LAN party entitled “Blair Witch”. At the time, the movie was many months away from release and...

I’d like to begin with a definition straight from the dictionary. Vampire (vam·pire) –noun 1. a preternatural being, commonly believed to be a reanimated corpse, that is said to suck the blood of sleeping persons at night. 2. (in Eastern European folklore) a corpse, animated by an undeparted soul or demon, that periodically leaves the grave and disturbs the living, until it is exhumed and impaled or burned. 3. a person who preys...

I don’t usually write articles about non-fiction books, but in this case… it’s worthy of spreading the word. Let’s take a quick ride in the mad scientist’s DeLorean and jump back into my history, I wrote and later published my first fantasy novel in November 2009. Not a bad feat by any means, but I then continued to attempt to “promote” it online. To give you a bit more of an idea about my skillset, I...

Look into her eyes, and you turn to stone. There is something alluring and yet incredibly frightening about Medusa, the snake headed beauty. Most recently, her character starred in the movies “Clash of the Titans 3D” and “Percy Jackson’s Lightning Thief“, both films depicted her differently, but she still meets the same fateful end. Uma Thurman as Medusa in The Lightning Thief. CGI certainly has come a long way over...

I remember when I finished the final draft of my manuscript and was ever so excited to be publishing my novel. Like a child on a sugar rush, I felt fantastic! That was until I got the requirements from my publisher that I need to write a book synopsis. Suddenly without warning, the sugar drained out of me and I was thinking to myself… “How the heck do you write a synopsis?!?” I did not even know where to begin and I am...