Category: adventure
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Comic Con Pandemonium
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Every year, May 8th celebrates Make a Book Day. It challenges people to ‘channel their inner author’. Well, five years ago I did just that. I had no idea what would happen when I began setting down my idea for a genre-crossing, off-trend urban fantasy/sci-fi trilogy. But nothing is ever…
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Houses of mystery
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If you were a 19th century archaeologist with an unholy Egyptian artifact in your possession, and you wanted to both keep it out of the hands of bad guys and protect your family, where would you put it? Why, a secret room in your mansion, of course. At least, that…
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The Earth’s Entrances to the Underworld
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There’s a plain just east of Naples, Italy that smolders away. I’ve been to a place like that before, on the island of St. Lucia, a large, collapsed volcanic crater called Sulphur Springs. It’s been dormant since the 1700s, but it doesn’t seem that way when you’re watching steam boil…
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Storytelling: Winter Escapism and the Inspiration for Indiana Jones
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Inspiration comes in all forms. Sometimes it’s a post to Instagram celebrating International Pisco Sour Day 😉 My dad and I loved to watch adventure movies together. While Journey to the Centre of the Earth has always been my favourite from our virtual Sunday escapades, another movie that really stuck…
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Mysticism, Divination & Tarot
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We’ve reached that point of the year when the world balances between 12 hours of day and 12 hours of night. This year it took place on Sunday, September 22. From hereon in, until the Winter Solstice, the nights will get longer, which creates a magical feel to our days.…
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The wonderful world of vintage carousels – Pt 1
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Music. Hot dogs and ice cream. Sunshine and breezes. Rides. Memories of childhood summers in the 1900s, and not just in that century. Happily, old-fashioned amusement parks still exist, and families still turn out to enjoy their simpler pleasures, free from timed attractions, long lineups and exorbitant prices. Summertime when…
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Fascinating alien worlds
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Fantasy and sci-fi writers have so much fun creating worlds for their stories to take place in. We have total power – but, with great power comes great responsibility 😉 For me, at least, the geography, physics and inhabitants have to make a certain amount of sense, although every year…
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Let there be wonder
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On my television as I write this post, intrepid Sinbad is battling a skeleton raised by the evil sorcerer Sokurah, inside a castle that’s a delightful amalgam of medieval walls, Arabic arches and bottomless stone caverns. There’s a massive green dragon, which, fortunately for Sinbad and the princess he’s to…
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Hiatus tidbit: What’s Real?
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A brief post, in honour of the famous London Tube map. Such a massive construction, with miles of old tunnels in a very old city smoldering with history and mystery, just fires the imagination. Film and TV producers have had a great deal of fun inventing subways stations that ‘aren’t…
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How a humble subway map became an icon
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There’s a dragon approaching. You can feel its hot breath billowing out of the dark, sooty-looking tunnels. Soon it will emerge and devour you. That was my first impression of the subway system in London, England. At its deepest levels, it’s like a medieval labyrinth. As the trains get close…