Just in case you, like me, managed to miss it, the Maximum Ride series of YA (young adult) novels by James Patterson are best sellers.  Bona fide best sellers.  As in, the kind of success that every author dreams of best sellers, not just “good for YA” best sellers, i.e. movie-coming-out-soon-with-hordes-of-expectant-fans-already-looking-forward-to-seeing-it-because-they’ve-read-the-book best seller.
Still, not quite […]

To truly appreciate the manga version of The Third, you really ought to seek out the anime version first.  So, for the purposes of this review, I’m going to discuss the both the anime and the manga.
The main character of both versions of The Third is Honoka.  With her self-aware AI sand tank, Bogie, she […]

Conventions.  Very bad for people who really shouldn’t be tempted with stacks and stacks of books for sale.
Not that that’s a bad thing, mind you.  However, when you’re a minor player at best with a paltry few panels to attend, you end up spending a lot of time amongst the books.  What’s worse, of course, […]

My daughter snagged this off the manga shelf at Barnes and Noble the other day and immediately gave me the puppy-dog look.  “Can I please have this?”
Yeah.  Right.  Like I was going to say, “No.”
The thing is, what she had keyed in to was direct evidence that not everyone making money decisions in traditional publishing […]

The Angels of St. Ambrose
By C. Mitchell O’Neal
Originally published in the Volume 1, Issue 2 Omnibus.
Under the African sun, Thomas played hide and seek with Juma and Kibibi, his favorite cousins. Juma leaned against the well house wall and counted, skipping numbers, as Thomas and Kibibi scattered in opposite directions through the dusty paths of […]