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The 2024 Dragon Con Report Episode 8

Surprise! A special edition to this year’s DCR! A project near and dear to our hearts here, The Dragon Tales Anthology: Stories, essays, memories, etc. all celebrating the con we love. This book is not officially associated with Dragon Con. This is purely an independent production. Published by New Legend

Validus-V Book Review By Ron Fortier

‘Validus-V’ Book Review By Ron Fortier

VALIDUS-VBy Van Allen PlexicoWhite Rocket Books253 pgs Giant robots battling each other and horrific giant monsters. Ah, the stuff of Japanese movies and American comics. And now a wonderful, action-packed novel by veteran sci-fi and pulp writer, Van Allen Plexico. This one truly has it all and this reviewer was

Quarry's Bood Book Review By Ron Fortier

‘Quarry’s Blood’ Book Review By Ron Fortier

QUARRY’S BLOODBy Max Allan CollinsHard Case Crime205 pgs Max Allan Collins has written stories about his Vietnam veteran hitman since 1976. It was obvious from the start that the author and his creation were the same age making it easy for him to place the stories in time. Collins did

Expectation vs Reality

Expectation vs Reality – SOUL FORGE PODCAST 281

Expectation vs reality is episode 281 of Soul Forge Podcast. Expectations are what we think will happen, while reality is what actually transpires. While we hope these two will match up, they often don’t. This disparity of expectations vs. reality can often lead to feelings of discontentment and unhappiness.  Expectations

Top 10 Things To Love – Soul Forge 250

Top 10 things to love! Do you make a list of your favourite things? How many people out there in podcast-land actually have a running inventory of the things that make them happy? Obviously there is no way of answering that question. On this episode, I run down some of

Stars Shine For You – Soul Forge Podcast 241

Stars shine for you, and they shine for everyone. Episode titles are difficult. Song lyrics are often good at expressing things that regular words cannot. This episode, for example, is very strange. There isn’t a single thread that holds everything together. Topics seemingly come and go at random. In this

Why you should be paying attention to Star Wars: The High Republic

There’s a lot of excitement surrounding the release of all the upcoming Star Wars projects on Disney+ — and understandably so. Longtime fan favorite Boba Fett is back (and better than ever) thanks to The Mandalorian, and he’s appearing in his own spinoff series later this year. Ewan McGregor is

The ENTERTAINMENT Special – Soul Forge Podcast 204

The entertainment special is a look at some recent movies, television and books that I have been consuming. This week I wanted to share with all of you some things you may have missed or not been made aware of. Whether you are an avid reader or TV watcher, there

movies and mutants

Movies, Mutants and More…. Rusted Robot Podcast 327

Movies, mutants and more! So many upcoming movies to talk about. This week’s trailers lean towards science fiction and super heroes. We also have a trailer for a documentary of sorts. There is some fun Star Trek news and talk about books and authors. Movies, mutants and more! STAR TREK:

Lisa Beere – Author, Poet, Brain Injury Survivor — SOUL FORGE PODCAST 107

On episode 107, Shawn has a chat with Lisa Beere. She is a children’s author, song writer, poet, and a brain injury survivor. On Writing: the challenge of longer stories vs stories meant for children; paying attention to the details in long format writing. Lisa talks about the writer’s routine

Beyond a galaxy far, far away: My favorite new canon Star Wars novels

Although I’m definitely known as “the movie gal” amongst my friends, I really love books too. And since one movie a year isn’t nearly enough Star Wars for me, ? it’s nice to have Star Wars novels to help tide me over. A lot of the Star Wars books I’ve

Quary in Black, Book Review By Ron Foriter

‘Quarry In The Black’ Book Review By Ron Fortier

QUARRY IN THE BLACK By Max Allan Collins Hard Case Crime 209 pages Release Date – Oct 4, 2016 Regardless of one’s opinion of the new “Quarry” Cinemax TV series, it has shined a light on these fantastic books and that is a benefit worth applauding. As Collins says in

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