If you like: Firefly You might like: Defiance Defiance is a ScyFy Channel original currently available on Amazon Prime. While it's got all the sardonic voice and grit of good westerns, it's got a dash of fantastic, sometimes light-hearted, Roddenberry-esque speculative science fiction. Several races of alien, similar and yet different to the diverse races and cultures of any average neighborhood, exist in the former city of St. Louis, now Defiance, an independent township in

There’s always something so ruggedly satisfying about stories of the Wild West. Tombstone, Riders of the Purple Sage, Lonesome Dove, True Grit, just about anything by Louis L’amour (hot damn, that man wrote a lot). The Western genre has enjoyed something of a resurgence in the last decade or so, with the popularity of books like Stephen King’s Dark Tower series, televisions shows like Deadwood and Firefly, and movies like Appaloosa, 3:10 to Yuma, and Cowboys & Aliens. There’s

I've been a little disappointed with the paranormal romance genre lately.  In fact, the last book I tried to read, I couldn't finish.  It feels so formulaic.  So rehashed. Why are we all writing the same things over and over? A little tip for my fellow writers of the genre: if it's a trope, don't use it. Please.  It is by definition already cliche. It does nothing for you. It makes your story stale. Whenever people ask me what advice I'd give to aspiring writers, I always say