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Author Richard C. White at Frightreads Book Festival 2025
This coming weekend, book lovers and authors like will be gathering at Frightreads Book Festival, billed as “Maryland’s Number One Halloween Book Festival” and held at the Howard County Fairgrounds, in West Friendship, Maryland. Among the attendees at this spooktastic … Continue reading
Posted in Author Appearances, Book Festivals, Conventions, Halloween, Richard C. White
Tagged author appearances, book festivals, conventions, frightreads book festival, halloween, richard c. white
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Celebrating Lorelei’s Sole (to Date) Full-Color Cameo, 30 Years Ago
Where does the time go? That question immediately came to mind, as I saw a recent Facebook post from Crusade Comics’ owner/publisher Billy Tucci (creator, writer, and artist of Shi, the female warrior character he introduced during the 1990s’ “Bad … Continue reading
Posted in Comic Books, Lorelei
Tagged comic books, crossover comics, cyblade/shi: the battle for independents, lorelei, shi/cyblade: the battle for independents
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Author Richard C. White at PulpFest 2025
This coming weekend, fans of pulp-era heroes and authors like Doc Savage, The Shadow, and The Phantom, Tarzan creator Edgar Rice Burroughs, and Conan the Barbarian creator Robert E. Howard will be gathering at PulpFest, the annual pulp-fiction celebration being … Continue reading
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Happy 95th Birthday, Publishing Icon James Warren!
Born in 1930, James Warren is a name known to every horror fan who grew up in the 1950s to 1980s. He was the driving force behind the Warren Publishing Company; the man who thumbed his nose at the censorial … Continue reading
Posted in Birthdays, Nonfiction, Steven A. Roman, vampirella
Tagged birthdays, from the stars a vampiress, james warren, nonfiction, starwarp concepts backlist, steven a. roman, vampirella, warren publishing
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Conventioneering at Home: Not at SDCC 2025? Join the Club!
Today is opening day for San Diego Comic-Con 2025: four days in which hordes of comic and pop-culture fans descend on the San Diego Convention Center (and the nearby Gaslamp Quarter) to meet their acting and/or comic-creating idols, hunt down … Continue reading
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Tagged conventioneering at home, conventions, not at comic con, san diego comic-con, shameless plugs
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Author Richard C. White at The Time Traveler’s Weekend
This coming Friday, fans of genre fiction will be gathering in Billie Creek Village, Indiana, for the kickoff of The Time Traveler’s Weekend, in which (according to their site), the historic recreation of a turn-of-the-century village “will be transformed into … Continue reading
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Celebrate Christmas in July 2025 with DriveThru’s Ebook Sale!
Hark! The herald angels sing, “E-books! Discounted e-books here! Get ’em while they’re hot! And have a merry freakin’ Christmas—in July!” They sure can carry a tune, can’t they? Anyway, as you probably know if you’ve made a visit to … Continue reading
Posted in Classic Fiction, Comic Books, Dark Urban Fantasy, Digital Comics, e-books, e-tailers, Events, Fantasy, Graphic Novels, Holidays, Illustrated Classics, Nonfiction, Science Fiction, Summer Reading, vampirella
Tagged christmas in july sale, digital comic books, drivethru comics, drivethru fiction, e-books, e-tailers, events, graphic novels, nonfiction, starwarp concepts backlist
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Smashwords’ 2025 Summer/Winter Ebook Sale Begins
Hey, book lovers! Today’s the day when e-book distributor Smashwords launches its annual Summer/Winter Sale, during which you can purchase thousands of digital books at special prices! It runs from July 1 to July 31—and yes, you’ll need to set … Continue reading
Posted in Dark Urban Fantasy, e-books, e-tailers, Fantasy, Gaming, Horror, Nonfiction, Richard C. White, Science Fiction, Steven A. Roman, Summer Reading, Writing Reference Books, Young Adult
Tagged Dark Urban Fantasy, e-books, e-tailers, Fantasy, fantasy adventure, fantasy and science fiction, gaming, horror fiction, nonfiction, richard c. white, science fiction, smashwords, smashwords summer/winter sale, starwarp concepts backlist, steampunk fiction, steven a. roman, world building, writers reference, writing reference, young adult fiction
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Happy Free RPG Day 2025!
If you’re a fan of role-playing games, then you probably know that today is Free RPG Day. If you’re not, it’s an annual event that’s sort of the gaming equivalent of Free Comic Book Day, intended to drive traffic to … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Gaming, Nonfiction, Richard C. White
Tagged events, free rpg day, game masters, gamers, gaming, richard c. white, starwarp concepts backlist, terra incognito: a guide to building the worlds of your imagination, tracy hickman, world building
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Celebrating Comic-Art Legend Frank Thorne’s 95th Birthday
Born this day in 1930, Benjamin Franklin Thorne is best known to comic book fans (especially those who grew up during the Bronze Age of Comics, in the 1970s) as Frank Thorne, the artist who made Marvel Comics’ Red Sonja, … Continue reading
Posted in Birthdays, Comic Books, Lorelei
Tagged birthdays, frank thorne, lorelei, red sonja
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