Category Archives: Other Places I Write

Elsewhere Review: Gross and Altman’s “Slayers & Vampires: The Complete Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of Buffy and Angel

Read the original piece HERE at Green Man Review! Published just in time for the 20th anniversary of BtVS (whoa), this collection of comments, anecdotes and deep thoughts is obviously a treasure trove of delight for fans of the Whedonverse.  But it’s … Continue reading

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Elsewhere Review: “The Haunted Mansion”

Read the “original” (okay, I actually wrote this back in ’03, this is a re-pub) here at Green Man Review! Ghosts. You can’t live with ’em, you can’t just throw ’em out on the street. Jim and Sara Evers are … Continue reading

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Elsewhere Review: “Anansi Boys (Playaway Edition)”

Read the original (okay, I wrote this in ’05) here at Green Man Review! Ah, family. You can’t live with ’em, you can’t wish ’em into an alternate plane of existence. The say that a long time ago a spider … Continue reading

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Elsewhere Review: Ronald Kelly, “Midnight Grinding”

Read the original (okay, I wrote this in ’09) HERE at Green Man Review! Ronald Kelly? Hrm. Never heard of him, I thought. Until I took a look at the list of stories in this collection and realized not only … Continue reading

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Elsewhere Review: Sirius Konsum’s Chocolate & Lakkris

Read the original review RIGHT HERE at Green Man Review! I absolutely adore black licorice.  Wasn’t always so.  I used to turn my nose up at it when I was Trick-or-Treating age, and my father gleefully took the offensive items … Continue reading

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Elsewhere Review: Stephen King and Richard Chizmar’s Gwendy’s Button Box

Read the original piece HERE at Green Man Review! My mom had a button box. I used to paw through it, looking for shiny mother-of-pearl, and iridescent bits of abalone. When I got older, that button box became mine (though it’s more … Continue reading

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Elsewhere Review: Cats Laughing’s A Long Time Gone – Reunion at MiniCon 50

Read the original piece HERE at Green Man Review! “Achievement unlocked!” I have to confess something to you.  The reason I asked to review this CD and DVD set wasn’t because I knew about the band.  It was because I … Continue reading

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Elsewhere/Wayback Review(s): John Denver’s Greatest Hits 1967 — 1973, Back Home Again and Rhymes & Reasons

While this is a review I penned back in 2005, you can read the newly re-issued review RIGHT HERE at Green Man Review! Admit it. John Denver soothes. You know it; I know it. Songs like “Calypso” and “Rocky Mountain … Continue reading

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Elsewhere Review: Eleanor Wasserberg’s Foxlowe

Read the original piece RIGHT HERE at The Green Man Review! “Tomorrow I’ll show you a secret.” I’m a sucker for a utopia-but-not-really story.  From The Dark Secret of Harvest Home to Red Rising, there’s just something about a tale … Continue reading

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Elsewhere Review: Melissa Sweet’s Some Writer! The Story of E.B. White

Read the original piece RIGHT HERE at The Green Man Review! I have to admit, I worried I didn’t know enough about E.B. White to do justice to this book.  I’m a huge fan of Charlotte’s Web; but who isn’t?  … Continue reading

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