MoonDream Press (an imprint of Copper Dog Publishing) is pleased to announce the upcoming Halloween 2017 release of the second volume of dark verse from poet Michael H. Hanson… WHEN THE NIGHT OWL SCREAMS. Excerpt from the Introduction: “This book is like a magical ticket to visit everything that has been, that touched and surrounded…
Fictioneer Edward McKeown, author of the Maauro Series, will be appearing at LibertyCon-30, June 30 – July 2, 2017! Ed will be sitting panels and also available for autographs at the Copper Dog Publishing sales table in the Dealers Room.
Are autographed hardcover copies of Roger Zelazny novels flooding the current online used book market? As of this moment, the answer appears to be YES. You might call it a renaissance in the availability of these once hard to find gems, you might call it serendipity for the formerly unlucky Roger Zelazny fan, or, more…
This is how I honor and carry on a minor Roger Zelazny literary tradition…. If you’ve read the Roger Zelazny short story “The Stainless Steel Leech” (first published under the pseudonym Harrison Denmark) then you might remember its wonderful closing line… ‘It is a proud and lonely thing to be a stainless steel leech.’ ———- [From…
I just heard the sad news about the death of actor Richard Hatch from pancreatic cancer. It is doubly sad for me as not only had I met Mr. Hatch at DerpyCon in 2015, but my own mother was taken by pancreatic cancer in 2002, less than a week after she was diagnosed. I was…
ALICE is the mother of all zombie-stompers and the driving force behind this last installment of an action/horror film series spawning 15 years… Resident Evil: The Final Chapter is the Sixth and reportedly final flick in the Uber-Chick Milla Jovovich helmed horror-video-game adaption movie series that has earned over 1 Billion dollars to date, world-wide….
The Winter Solstice begins on Wednesday, the traditional start of Winter, and it marks a time most noticeable in the northern climes with the advance of cold and snow… and yet, it can also be seen as a reminder of change, a time of sleep, and a harbinger of death. For the young, Winter is a…
PERHAPS PREDATING ALL WRITTEN LANGUAGES, tattooing has been around for many millennia. The oldest mummified and tattooed human being dates to roughly 3,250 BC, and perhaps scientists will one day find the remains of tattooed individuals thousands of years older still. Tattooing sprouted from many different cultures for the multi-use purposes of decoration, identification, ritual…
REMAKES ARE A DIME A DOZEN in television and movies these days, but every now and then something special comes along where the child outshines the parent. “Battlestar Galactica” comes to mind, as well as John Carpenter’s “The Thing,” and possibly the upcoming premiere of Netflix’s “Lost in Space” reboot series. In the case of…