Gwendolyn Womack's new novel, The Last Labyrinth, is a well-paced, well-written romantasy time travel story that uses music as its magic...

At last, 2025 is over. I'd hoped to surpass 100 books this year, but other things became more important.  In 2025, I read 67 works of fi...

Imagine you're suddenly gifted with the ability to instantly teleport to random coordinates anywhere on Earth's surface. Just think;...

After painting Medusa, I created a little diorama for her by adding a rock from the street and gluing some previously painted treasure to it...

 

  Finally! Here we are at what has become the traditional final post of the year here at The Earliad: the list of books I read over the cour...

  Blogger wiped out about 80% of what had been a 2,000 word post right before I could save it. And no, I didn't write it in Word first, ...

Replay , Ken Grimwood's 1986 novel, keeps crossing my mind even a couple of decades after I first read it in the early 2000s. The premis...

I made this simple map of a fantasy planet with a browser tool called Inkarnate. Even using the limited tools available with the free versio...

I watched 1,065 movies this year. That seems rather a lot. There was only one week when I didn't watch a film: while Sylvia and I...

For the first time since 2016, I read more books this year than last, though I still fell short of the 123 books I read in 2017 and my rec...

Many months ago, Steve, Jeff, and I kickstarted Arena: The Contest , a tactical fantasy battle boardgame with roleplaying elements. A co...

For the second year in a row, the number of books I read over the course of the year has declined, down to 86 books this year compared to 1...

A couple of weeks ago, I finally gave in an ordered an e-reader, which arrived on the Friday before Christmas. I resisted for many reasons,...

On my drive home today, I recalled how much I'd enjoyed the movies of 1982. It was a great year for lovers of science fiction and fanta...

When Arthur finally found the courage to put fingers to keyboard, a demon conjured itself into existence. Arthur's fingers froze before...