Rich Redman
Red-6 was my callsign in the US Army. Marketing, web, and social media content; games and fiction
Brain Pickings
Terrific advice on writing, which applies to every creative field: https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/09/07/jennifer-egan-on-writing/
Love For The Craft: The Weird Tales Of W.H. Pugmire
For later:
themonarchreview.org In the early 1970s Seattle’s seekers of the macabre were stalked by Count Pugsly, a ghoulish vampire lurking in the horror-filled chambers of Jones’ Fantastic Museum. 20 years later tha…
Lovecraft Country Is One of the Most Thrilling Books of the Year
io9.gizmodo.com Imagine that you’re driving home, and a cop pulls you over for no reason. He begins to search your car and finds a stash of rare science fiction books, including a rare Edgar Rice Burroughs first edition, giftwrapped for your uncle. The cop proceeds to mess up these books, while laughing at the titl…
No Hex in the Cryo Tube: Can Science Fiction and Fantasy Coexist? | Hazlitt
hazlitt.net Readers who embrace futuristic narratives about artificial intelligences or evolved dolphins may balk at those about magicians or goblins, but creators are increasingly bridging the genre gap.
Books to look for - Victor LaValle's The Ballad of Black Tom, and Tim Powers' The Drawing of the Dark. I may have read the latter, but if so I'm overdue for re-reading.
Wild West Novels Have Suddenly Gotten A Whole New Exciting Lease on Life
Bunch of books that I'd like to read here.
io9.gizmodo.com Lately, the Western novel has been getting really fun again. Most of us probably think of Louis L’Amour’s, or maybe Joe Lansdale’s classic Weird West stories. But there’s a slew of new Westerns, featuring diverse characters and bracing new storylines. We talked to four authors about the new wave of…
Writing Advice: What I Learned from Reading One-Star Reviews
I usually delete links and leave the images, but there's actually a blog post there worth reading. The video is only part of it.
http://blog.ceciliatan.com/archives/2649
There are some lessons as a writer that one learns over and over. One that keeps coming around again and again for me is this: What some people love most about a book or story will be the SAME THING that other people hate the most. I first learned this as an editor. I've edited over 100 anthologies…
Sacred Carnality - The New Yorker
Details in writing.
newyorker.com Every memoir should brim over with the physical experiences that once streamed into the author’s senses.
The Entropy of Bones Is One of the Year's Best Action Movies, Except It's a Book
Another book to read later.
io9.com Sometimes the best books are the ones which just kick your ass on the first page and keep thwacking you up one side of the page and down the other, for pages and pages. That’s pretty much what The Entropy of Bones by Ayize Jama-Everett is like.
Here’s A Book That Adds a Fascinating New Dimension to Posthuman Space Opera
To read later.
io9.com By now, the stories of humans transcending their limitations in space have become pretty much ubiquitous. We’ve had space cyborgs, space immortals, and tons of other posthumans in space. But the new novel Edge of Dark by Brenda Cooper still represents a fascinating new approach.http://www.amazon.com…
The Modern Noir Has Atrophied (and It’s Not All True Detective’s Fault)
Interesting analysis.
vulture.com All style and no substance.
New Anthology Has Women Fighting Lovecraft's Horrors. It's About Time.
Note to self: Find & read this.
io9.com H.P. Lovecraft was maybe not the most woman-friendly writer out there. His works teem oleaginously with many things, but not prominent female characters (although Shub-Niggurath, Black Goat and Mother of a Thousand Young, remains an inspiring role model for evil girls everywhere). But change is comi…
Also, I should look for The Scarlet Gospels by Clive Barker. I hear it's not up to his old standards, but still - some Clive Barker is better than no Clive Barker.
Note to self: I should keep an eye out for Seveneves.
First Look At The Final Chapter In Brandon Sanderson's Superhero Epic!
More books for me to read.
io9.com Brandon Sanderson helped inject life and emotion into the superhero prose fiction genre with his novel Steelheart. Now the trilogy is coming to an end next February with the third book, Calamity, and we’ve got an exclusive excerpt. Check it out!http://www.amazon.com/Calamity-Recko... Calamity (The R…
The Essential Cyberpunk Reading List
Strangely enough, I have not read all of these. Many, perhaps even most, but not all.
io9.com It’s now been over three decades since cyberpunk first exploded, and in that time we’ve seen gorgeous movies, read fascinating books, and seen dozens of offshoots like steampunk (and my new favorite, deco punk) develop. Here are the 21 cyberpunk books you absolutely must read.
The Lineup | 5 Scariest Stories You’ve Never Read
Saving for later, so I can read some of these.
the-line-up.com Want to read something truly frightening? The five scariest stories you've never read combine thrills, chills, and at least one hauntingly beautiful ghost.
Sexts from the Void (@voidsexts) | Twitter
This is still happening.
twitter.com The latest Tweets from Sexts from the Void (): "sext: i dont know where ur tongue begins but i like where its ending"
Last Vegas
For the first time in months, I wrote a blog post.
richredman.wordpress.com Maybe I should change this blog to "Movies That P**s Me Off"
Why are the stories in video games so bad?
Writing in video games -
boingboing.net People often say they are enthusiastic about games because "they can tell stories", or because they enable narrative moments not possible in other media. But although there are numerous flashes of ...
Here's One Brilliant Recipe For A Story That Will Kick Anyone's Ass
Chuck Wendig's recipe for writing:
io9.com There’s no one secret formula for a great story, even if Pixar has its rules and other people have their own ideas. There are as many great shapes for a story to take as there are stories. But Chuck Wendig, author of the Blackbirds series, has a pretty great example of how to structure a kick-ass st…
Aging Beefcake
Good morning! Nope, it's not an April Fools gag. I really did publish a new blog post yesterday.
richredman.wordpress.com I apologize for missing so many weeks.
Paper Man (2009)
I will figure out how to post the way I want, if it kills me. Anyway, here's a new blog post. Three weeks in a row!
richredman.wordpress.com Short one this week, but a film I can wholeheartedly recommend.
Gangsters
Another new post.
richredman.wordpress.com I’m gonna write about three gangster movies, see? And you’re gonna be happy to get two posts in two weeks, see? Nyeah, see?
An Invisible Sign (2010)
New post this week.
richredman.wordpress.com This is the first movie in a long time that actually had me squirming in my seat, trying to figure out what was happening and why.
The Monuments Men
I posted last week, but it was a non-post apology for not having a real post. So here's a post to make up for it.
richredman.wordpress.com I actually watched one of the movies that I mentioned last week, and was deeply moved. I’m not going to write about it this week, though.
God, Guns, Guts, and Gasoline
This week's blog post!
richredman.wordpress.com Capsule reviews of tough-guy(s) action movies.
Crazy Uncle Rich's Next Kung Fu Theater!
Happy New Year!
richredman.wordpress.com Let’s flying side-kick 2015 right out of the gate!
We’re No Angels (1955)
Merry Christmas!
richredman.wordpress.com Merry Christmas, readers!
Cruise Control
This week I have a 4-spot for you.
richredman.wordpress.com Welcome to a Tom Cruise quadruple feature.
Taken 2 (2012)
Guess I have to do these manually now.
richredman.wordpress.com Hey, I was sick. GImme a break.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
No idea why this didn't post this morning.
richredman.wordpress.com Tell the Red Skull I said screw Hydra. Also, Happy Thanksgiving.
Listen to an Excerpt from Brandon Sanderson's Legion: Skin Deep
Adding to my reading list
io9.com Stephen Leeds, the man with a thousand (superpowered) personalities, is back in this sequel to Brandon Sanderson's novel Legion. Now he's up against new bad guys -- and has a creepy new mystery to solve. You can listen to an excerpt now!
London Boulevard (2010)
Don't know (again) why FB didn't post a link to this. It went live at 8:00 AM.
richredman.wordpress.com Film noir needs femme fatales, right?