Rethinking the Conan/Leno feud in light of Bill Carter’s ‘The War for Late Night’

Man am I on a roll with non-fiction books lately on my iPad mini. After steamrolling Dream Team by Jack McCallum I wasted no time in devouring Bill Carter’s The War for Late Night (subtitle: When Leno Went Early and Television Went Crazy), the exhaustive account of the NBC debacle in 2010 when Conan O’Brien took
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One million hits!

Well, it’s more like 1,069,815 hits (as at the time of this post), but I’ve been busy lately with the baby, work, the Olympics and becoming an uncle (congrats, sis!). Yep, this blog has finally broken through the 1 million hit barrier (including the hits from its earlier incarnation at wordpress.com). Not bad for a website
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Book Review: ‘Frankenstein’ by Mary Shelley

I admit I’ve been somewhat slack on my goal to read more books this year, but I’ve finally made an effort and finished a classic I had been meaning to get to over the last few years: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. As it was first published in 1818, I was wary that the classic could be
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Cliches in Fantasy Writing

I haven’t done a post today yet, so I thought I would bring up something that’s been on my mind ever since I started working on my fantasy novel – the dreaded fantasy cliche. Just to start things off, here are a few lists of fantasy cliches I found on the Internets: The Grand List
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