We’re Going to War!, the sequel to Take the All-Mart!, is about ready to drop (any week now) and I’m getting all excited, so here’s a little taste.   “All right, listen up Dead-Bolts. Dire straits, here.” All seven members of the Consolidated Army of Shunk were huddled in a loose circle, robotic shoulders clanging… [Read the Rest]

I do my own covers for my books. Not just because I’m too cheap to pay someone else to do them, but also because I fancy myself the artist. The self-taught artist at that–which I think my art clearly demonstrates. Anyway, my dubious talents aside, there are some really good books out there on the… [Read the Rest]

What makes a J.I.Greco story a J.I.Greco story? Hot babes. The more the better. And if they’re generally smarter than the men, bonus. Robots. The more the better. And if they’re generally more competent than the humans, bonus. Vehicles — cars, starships, bio-mecha steam-powered constructs — treated with almost fetishistic reverence. Weapons — elephant pistols,… [Read the Rest]

The jury’s still out, I think, on the effectiveness of book trailers as marketing tools, but they are sure fun to make, so I made one. The tech details: I used Audacity to edit the background music (“All-Mart” by Gaijin Rampage and “Spaghetti Polka” by F. Jardella); Premiere Elements to edit the public domain movie Assignment Outer… [Read the Rest]

I am an easily influenced person. At least by books and movies. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hitchhiker’s Guide, Nueromancer, Star Wars, Buckaroo Banzai, Time Bandits, Tank Girl… all stuff that has heavy influenced my work, to name just a few. But until this weekend, I didn’t realize just how much one movie in… [Read the Rest]

When Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy came out, I harbored a dirty little geek secret… I’d never actually read the Tolkien. Tried to, in my teens. Put it away three pages into the first chapter and went back to reading Nueromancer for a tenth time.  I knew the basic story — I had seen… [Read the Rest]