As I am sure you have all heard the news (unless you have been living under a rock, and hey, i’m sure there’s nothing at all wrong with that, but I digress), Steve Jobs recently passed away. Although there are varieties of opinions of the man himself, it is almost staggering to see how much he has achieved. To put it simply, he is a prime example of motivation and inspiration.   If any of you have never seen his speech at...

My fantastic readers! I know it’s been a while since i’ve posted and I have many topics I wish to share. But first, I will share with you a guest blog. On my twitter travels, I happened to meet someone that I found incredibly interesting. His name is “RJ“, and he is an ex Security officer that ran his own security team for Movie sets in Hollywood. He just finished writng his book, “Life After Wrap”, about his...

I have had this experience countless times; A new movie is coming out based on a video game, awesome! I get excited and head to the cinema to see it only to come out wishing that I could ask for a refund of my ticket and 2 odd hours of my life back. If anyone mentions the director’s name “Uwe Boll” in a positive light, they need to get their head read. He has butchered enough video game licenses to be able to open his own...

I have had the pleasure of being interviewed by Courtney at Babble and Books about writing, my first book (Legends of Marithia: Prophecies Awakening) and more. Preview Below I recently interviewed Fantasy writer Peter Koevari, Peter is an australian author of Legends of Marithia the first in a series of fantasy books. The Legends of Marithia was released in the USA and has had great success. I had the pleasure of asking Peter all about himself...

The world, as we know it, is about to enter the next digital age. Why is this happening, why do I think that? and why am I talking about this? I’m glad you asked. Many people are talking about 2012 as the “end of the world”, but the Mayans actually described it as the “end of an age”, and I believe that the new age will be digital connectivity. Yes, there have been some major changes in the planet, and countless...

It’s time to discuss something that I think we can all relate to in some degree, addiction. Addiction –noun the state of being enslaved to a habit or practice or to something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming, as narcotics, to such an extent that its cessation causes severe trauma. Now, I know that this a taboo topic to some degree, but today I will examine this from what I believe to be a different angle to the norm....

They exist not only in fairy tales, movies, video games, but in everyday life… they are, villains (insert dramatic music here) But what makes a villain, great? This is a question that we as writers may struggle with, as the best “bad guy/girl” is one that in my opinion, is one that we need to be able to relate to on some level. We have to understand them, relate to them. Let us examine this further. On the surface, a villain...