by Jim Stitzel | Feb 9, 2007 | Writing
Things I do not like to see in novels – Kalbzayn’s World This is a bit of old news, but sometimes I keep things in my writing queue for longer than I should. In the article cited above, Kalbzayn complains about supplemental material in speculative fiction...
by Jim Stitzel | Feb 1, 2007 | General
The final installment of the Harry Potter series, _Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows_, is “set to be released on July 21st”:http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Movies/02/01/new.potter.date.ap/index.html. This is music to my ears, especially considering that...
by Jim Stitzel | Jan 19, 2007 | General
As of today, I’m finally about halfway through Peter F. Hamilton’s 6-volume Night’s Dawn trilogy. I finished up “The Neutronium Alchemist – Part 1:...
by Jim Stitzel | Jan 18, 2007 | General
I’ve been wondering lately whether or not Hollywood would make any money from a movie that was actually done in such a way as to do justice to whatever book it is trying to reproduce for the silver screen. We all complain about how book-to-movie adaptations...
by Jim Stitzel | Jan 10, 2007 | General
This “entry by Brandon Sanderson”:http://www.brandonsanderson.com/blog.php?date=1168239600 stands in sharp relief to my little “mini-rant”:http://open-dialogue.com/blog/2006/12/31/adverse-book-sizes/ the other day. Coupled with “Bryan...
