Dan's Sci-fi & Fantasy Blog

Inspiration What inspires you? What inspires me? The picture above exudes a sci-fi vibe. In my opinion, at least. It reminds me of  Dune...

How time sometimes seems to fly! Now that the end of 2024 closes in, it's time to etch my writing goals for 2025 into digital stone.

What better gift is there than the gift of books? Here are recommendations for the most discerning and reluctant readers in your life....

I was dismayed when the email came stating that my son's team needed a volunteer coach. What if they didn't find a coach?

It's that time of year to list what you're thankful for.

In this entry of my intermittent series Pages2Screen, I ponder if The Wild Robot book or film is superior.

Today on the blog, author S. Labrecque provides an in-depth review of The Changeling Sea by Patricia A. McKillip. If you enjoy this review,

Lately, I've been feeling pretty darn accomplished. 2024 has been a great year in writing for yours truly…

The fourth and final installment of Spooky Reads for October is the Robopocalypse Duology by Daniel Wilson.

My third entry in spooky reads for October can be succinctly described as the X-Files set in post-Civil War America. In the Eidola...

In Sooky Reads, part 2, I recommend another completed horror trilogy sure to put some fright in your nights.

In this post, I dish on a YA horror series that sparked my interest in the genre.

Today on the blog, author John Tarrow provides an extract of his fantastical new release Talliston . The book has a beautiful cover, and...

New Project Finally, it's time…time to start a brand new project , a new novel unrelated to my YA series, The Allison Lee Chronicles . I...

A while back I used Dall-E to generate images for my characters from The Allison Lee Chronicles. It was an interesting and somewhat fun expe

The fourth and final volume in The Allison Lee Chronicles is done!!!! Well…more precisely, the rough draft is finished. I have a monumental

Today on the blog, author Joanne Ryan Curran dishes on her new release, The Cards That Changed My Life . The Cards That Change My Life...

Streaming services have been chock full of wonderful speculative fiction series for several years now. Have we entered a new golden age...

I'm abuzz with pleasure today. Why, do you ask? Well, that's because my humorous fantasy short story,  A Debt Paid , finally found a home...

I remember thinking House of the Dragon would be a great show. I'm not a massive fan of the source material,  Fire & Blood , but I...