Josh Vogt - Fantasy Author & Freelancer Posts

What hath become of us? Will all the great plays of old be twisted by the patterns of modern social interfaces? Will our children learn of the great tragedies through these abbreviated versions texted to them on their phones? Hamlet- The Facebook Edition Here are a few of my favorite…

There are some days I really want a Kindle or some other e-reader, and some days that the comic below reflects my feelings more accurately. As much as I appreciate the convenience and advances e-reading offers, it still doesn’t quite capture the visceral appeal of reading a solid chunk of…

Garfield Minus Garfield is quite an odd, yet appealing project. The owner of this site has gone through many of the Garfield comic strip archives and removed the famous striped, lasagna-snarfing feline. What’s left then, when you take out the iconic star from his own newspaper medium? Jon Arbuckle, of…

Apex Digest Online, a ezine of science fiction and horror, has been expanding its market presence lately, what with offering more pay-per-word for its accepted stories and increasing its staff. Now they’re looking to hire an editor (aka. minion) to help wade through the slush pile of submissions. As they…

Because the only evidence I have of encountering him at the local Barnes and Noble yesterday are these two fuzzy photos snapped by my camera phone. Well, that and the two books he signed for me. Great guy. He spent a lot of time answering the crowd’s questions about A…

Found this and thought it worth sharing: The small boat glided gently across the pond, exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn’t. John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds that had also never met. His thoughts tumbled around in his head, making and breaking alliances like…

Is it bad that some deep dark part of me says, “I want to write stories so good they deserve this kind of art”? I see that smile.  Subscribe in a reader

With the tagline, “Hungry for the next good book,” Omnivoracious is a great book blog run by the editors at Amazon.com. They’ve got interviews, reviews, suggested reading lists, and plenty of material to keep you neck-deep in pages for years to come. If you read fast, like me, and always…

Two brief announcements today. 1. The sun and I are no longer on speaking terms. (more like “I’d put the strongest laxative in its coffee, if given the chance” terms) Why? Just ask my back. And the answer (if my back had a mouth, and wouldn’t that be weird) would…

A while back, there was the announcement that Tor was revamping its web presence, along with the running e-book and cover art promotion that showed up in your inbox each week. I’ve now got about a dozen e-books to catch up on reading…guess I need to figure out which e-reader…