I've been over on Word Press since 2017, and after five years, it's time to officially retire this LiveJournal. I'm going to leave it open and the archives are still available for as long as LiveJournal lasts, though I've got everything from 2004-2017 archived just in case.

However, I will close out with a final guide to what's on the other blog to cover through to the end of 2021, just for completion's sake. If you want to know what's on the blog I actually update from 1 January 2022 onward, you'll just have to follow this link and keep following it.


Now on sale: Outside In Wants to Believe: 156 New Perspectives on 156 X-Files Universe Stories by 156 Writers, with my essay on The Lone Gunmen episode "The Lying Game."

Midweek music: "Walking in Memphis" by Marc Cohn.

The traditional noon-on-Thanksgiving presentation of Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant."

The traditional Thanksgiving post, stuff for what I'm thankful.

Friday fanfare: "Miles from Nowhere" by Cat Stevens.

Gratuitous cover post!!!!!

Happy book birthday to Devilish and Divine, which has my story "Unguarded."

Stuff of mine that came out in 2021.

A nice review of my 2004 Star Trek novel A Time for War, a Time for Peace.

The traditional winter solstice presentation of Susan Cooper's "The Shortest Day."

Midweek music is one of my favorite holiday songs, "Riu Riu Chiu" as performed by the Waverly Consort.

44 years of Christmas Eve, presenting (or at least describing) the family Christmas Eve pictures from 1981, 1991, 2001, 2011, and 2021.

Prizes! Showing off my Christmas presents from family.

Highlights from the Star Trek: Voyager Rewatch's second year: the end of season four and all of season five, season six, and season seven.

Goodbye, 2021; hello, 2022.



Star Trek: Enterprise Rewatch

"Strange New World," "Unexpected," and "Terra Nova."


Star Trek: Discovery reviews

"Anomaly," "Choose to Live," "The Examples," "Stormy Weather," and "...But to Connect."


4-Color to 35-Millimeter: The Great Superhero Movie Rewatch

Black Widow, The Suicide Squad, and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.


Thanks to all of you who have followed this blog over the seventeen years it's been active. This was a great vibrant place once, and I'm sorry to see it fallen on such hard times. But there's also not much traffic here anymore, sadly.

See y'all on Word Press.......

Current Music: "Sunset Grill" by Don Henley
Current Mood: busy

Fell a bit behind on this........

Here's what's been posted to DeCandido dot WordPress dot com since *checks notes* the 12th of September. Oops....


Monday music: "Till the Walls Come Tumblin' Down" by the J. Geils Band.

The Subterranean Blue Grotto Essays on Batman '66 are back in print!!!!!

On fighting class returning to the dojo for the first time in eighteen months.

Midweek music: Robbie Robertson's "Sonny Got Caught in the Moonlight."

On being invited to go for my fourth-degree black belt.

A panel on Supernatural tie-in fiction on Con-tinual, with John Passarella, Tim Waggoner, and Gail Z. Martin.

I'm doing a Resident Evil graphic novel!!!

Stuff what I've posted to Patreon between 27 August and 9 October.

In honor of Indigenous People's Day, links to three of my Tor.com rewatch articles, on Star Trek's "The Paradise Syndrome," Batman '66's "An Egg Grows in Gotham / The Yegg Foes in Gotham," and Star Trek: Voyager's "Tattoo."

A nice review (in German) of my novella Star Trek: S.C.E.: War Stories Book 2.

Irons in the fire update.

Another American Sci-Fi Classics Track Quarantine Panel: Horror Movie Novelization readings!

A look at Star Trek: Prodigy's first couple of episodes.

A free Hallowe'en story on Patreon!

Midweek music: a very nifty live version of "The Shape I'm In."

My Sunday feeling on my father's 75th birthday and my black-belt promotion.

Monday music: "Bip Bop" by Paul McCartney & Wings.

Anticipating the first day of the black-belt promotion.

Links to my previous black-belt promotion essays.

Midweek music: the very apropos "Kung Fu Fighting" by Carl Douglas.

On the first two days of the black-belt promotion.

A list of the top ten Supernatural novels, which includes all three of mine!

On the final three days of the black-belt promotion.

Stuff what I've posted to Patreon between 9 October and 15 November.

Friday fanfare: Pete Seeger's "Sailin' Up, Sailin' Down."

Monday music: "Walking in Staten" from Saturday Night Live.

My yondan promotion essay.



KRAD COVID readings

Star Trek: S.C.E.: Security Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.

Star Trek: S.C.E.: Many Splendors Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4.


Star Trek: Voyager Rewatch

"Prophecy," "The Void," "Workforce, Parts I & II," "Human Error," "Q2," "Author, Author," "Friendship One," "Natural Law," "Homestead," "Renaissance Man," "Endgame," and seventh season overview.


Star Trek: Enterprise Rewatch

Introduction, "Broken Bow," and "Fight or Flight."


Star Trek: Lower Decks reviews

"The Spy Humongous," "Where Pleasant Fountains Lie," "I, Excretus," "wej Duj," "First First Contact," and second season overview.


Star Trek: Discovery reviews

"Kobayashi Maru."



30-day song challenge

Day 1: "Blue, Red, and Grey" by The Who
Day 2: "4, 5, and 9" by Leadbelly
Day 3: "Summertime Blues" by Eddie Cochran
Day 4: "New York is a Woman" by Suzanne Vega
Day 5: "Aqualung" by Jethro Tull
Day 6: "American Land" by Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band
Day 7: "Radar Love" by Golden Earring
Day 8: "Yes, I Guess They Oughtta Name a Drink After You" by John Prine
Day 9: "‘S iomadh rud tha dhìth orm / Ciamar a nì mi ‘n dannsa dìreach" by Rhiannon Giddens
Day 10: "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" by Warren Zevon
Day 11: "Coming into Los Angeles" by Arlo Guthrie
Day 12: "Late in the Evening" by Paul Simon
Day 13: "Angelsea" by Cat Stevens
Day 14: "Get Down Tonight" by KC & the Sunshine Band
Day 15: "Coming into Los Angeles" by Sarah Lee Guthrie
Day 16: "The Rubberband Man" by the Spinners
Day 17: "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" by Meat Loaf
Day 18: "I Want You (She's so Heavy)" by the Beatles
Day 19: "Telegraph Road" by Dire Straits
Day 20: "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant" by Billy Joel
Day 21: "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" by Jim Croce
Day 22: "The Book Report" from You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
Day 23: "He Don't Live Here No More" by Robbie Robertson
Day 24: "Stage Fright" by The Band
Day 25: "Space Oddity" by David Bowie
Day 26: "Can't Help Falling in Love" by Arlo Guthrie
Day 27: "Old Black Cat" by Ian Anderson
Day 28: "Combat Zone" by the Nylons
Day 29: "Baker Street" by Gerry Rafferty
Day 30: "The Entertainer" by Billy Joel

Current Music: "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" by Crosby, Stills, & Nash
Current Mood: tired

Here's what I've posted to the other place called "KRAD's Inaccurate Guide to Life".........

I'm on a panel about Star Trek for Con-Tinual: The Con that Never Ends, alongside fellow Trek novelist John Jackson Miller, as well as fellow word-slingers Jeanne Adams, Nancy Northcott, and James P. Nettles.

I'm on a panel about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze, one of the Dragon Con American Sci-Fi Classics Track's Quarantine Panels, alongside Joe Crowe, Gary Mitchel, Michael Falkner, Darin Bush, and Madison Metricula.

I was on Drinking with Authors, talking about my life and career, and I have links to the audio version of the podcast and the video version of same.

I was Guest of Honor at the Virtual Bubonicon 52: Take Two. Check out my two program events: a reading from Systema Paradoxa: All-the-Way House and a panel on magic systems with S.M. Stirling, Sherwood Smith, A. Lee Martinez, and Chaz Kemp.

Midweek music is in memory of Charlie Watts, the Rolling Stones drummer who passed away last month: "Sympathy for the Devil."

Stuff what I've posted to Patreon in the months of July and August.

Coming in 2022: Ragnarok and a Hard Place: More Tales of Cassie Zukav, Weirdness Magnet, the followup to 2013's Ragnarok and Roll.

My con report for Dragon Con 2021.

Coming soon: The Gold Archive, monographs on Star Trek.

Friday fanfare: "The Rattlesnake Trail" by Jethro Tull.


KRAD COVID readings

Star Trek: S.C.E.: Breakdowns, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5.


Star Trek: Voyager Rewatch

"Drive," "Repression," "Inside Man," "Body and Soul," "Nightingale," Flesh and Blood," "Shattered," "Lineage," and "Repentance."


Star Trek: Lower Decks reviews

"Strange Energies," "Kayshon, His Eyes Open," "We'll Always Have Tom Paris," "Mugato, Gumato," and "An Embarrassment of Dooplers."

Current Mood: busy
Current Music: "Shenandoah" by Richard Thompson

Here's what's on the blog I update more than once a month......

Why we celebrate Independence Day on the 4th of July.

Cover and cover copy reveal for Devilish and Divine.

A panel featuring me, David Boop, Jennifer Brozek, Steven Paul Leiva, Yvonne Navarro, and Weston Ochse discussing the Turning the Tied anthology.

New Kickstarter featuring me: Phenomenons: Every Human Creature. This Kickstarter has now ended, and it was funded!

Preorder links for Devilish and Divine.

My Shore Leave 41.6 schedule, which came and went of course, but the panels were all archived on YouTube!

Irons in the fire update.

My Sunday feeling (on a Monday).

I will be at GalaxyCon Raleigh (which has since come and gone).

Monday music: "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" by Dr. John.

Readings from Devilish and Divine by James Chambers, Russ Colchamiro, Robert E. Waters, and me!

An update on my crappy knees.


Star Trek: Voyager Rewatch:

"Muse," "Fury," "Life Line," "The Haunting of Deck Twelve," "Unimatrix Zero," Sixth Season Overview, "Unimatrix Zero, Part II," and "Imperfection."


KRAD COVID readings:

Star Trek: S.C.E.: War Stories Book 2, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4.

Current Music: "St. James Infirmary" by Arlo Guthrie
Current Mood: busy

Here's the latest from the the more active blog.............

On adding Seanan McGuire to the Kickstarter for The Four ???? of the Apocalypse.

Tuesday's dead, on various writerly, publishing, medical, and television things.

Ordering links for All-the-Way House.

Talkin' Trek with The Scotch Trekker podcast.

The Kickstarter for The Four ???? of the Apocalypse was successfully funded and then some!

Happy book birthday to All-the-Way House!

I'm interviewed by Paul Semel about All-the-Way House.

The (rescheduled) Turning the Tied three-day Zoom event!

Stuff what I've posted to Patreon lately.


Star Trek: Voyager Rewatch

"Tsunkatse," "Collective," "Spirit Folk," "Ashes to Ashes," "Child's Play," "Good Shepherd," and "Live Fast and Prosper."

KRAD COVID readings

Star Trek: S.C.E.: War Stories Book 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5.

"4-Color to 35-Millimeter: The Great Superhero Movie Rewatch"

Wonder Woman 1984 and Zack Snyder's Justice League.

Current Music: "Beast of Burden" by the Rolling Stones
Current Mood: tired

The latest from the blog I update more often than once a month or so:

The Positively Trek podcast talks about my Trek novel The Art of the Impossible.

From the virtual Farpoint: me, David Mack, and Derek Tyler Attico talk about the enduring power of Star Trek.

My Sunday feeling on a new mask, going out into the world, karate, and other things.

Presenting from Whysper Wude: The Four ???? of the Apocalypse, now on Kickstarter!

On a most successful Pensacon weekend, my first in-person convention since March 2020.

Previews of my Systema Paradoxa novella All-the-Way House in both print and video form!

Stuff what I've posted to Patreon over the last few weeks.


KRAD COVID readings

Star Trek: S.C.E.: Here There Be Monsters: Part 3 and Part 4.

Star Trek: S.C.E.: War Stories Book 1: Part 1.


Star Trek: Voyager Rewatch

"Pathfinder," "Fair Haven," "Blink of an Eye," "Virtuoso," and "Memorial."

Current Mood: tired
Current Music: "Many a Mile to Freedom" by Traffic

Knew I forgot to do something in April.............

Here's what's been on my other blog since early March:

On our karate discipline's "Go Ju Kata," which was all our dojos from all over the country doing 50 katas together over two hours.

SHE RIDES! I finished and turned in Systema Paradoxa: All-the-Way House.

My piece for Tor.com on how WandaVision explored consequences in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

On the new novel by my friend Melinda M. Snodgrass.

Talkin' Turning the Tied, with some details about my story in the anthology.

From the virtual Farpoint: me, Mary Fan, and Kelli Fitzpatrick talkin' Star Trek: Discovery.

On getting my second shot of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine.

Two books with me in them on sale!

Monday music: "Brewing in Elsinore."

The audio of Spider-Man: Down These Mean Streets is out!

Monday music: a rap of the Canterbury Tales prologue.

Midweek music: "Walkin' Like Brando."

Icarus, a graphic novel I scripted, was one of the three finalists for the Ben Franklin Award for Best Graphic Novel, given by the Independent Book Publishers Association. (It won Silver.)

On being fully vaccinated from COVID-19.

I'm on The Captain's Table Podcast talking about my Star Trek novel The Art of the Impossible.

Monday music: "Open All Night."

An open letter to Balticon, which I am not attending.

Stuff I put on my Patreon in March.

Friday fanfare: "Kodachrome" by Dr. Teeth & the Electric Mayhem.

Monday music: "New York State of Mind" by Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem.

Midweek music: "Sweet-Tooth Jam."

I put 11 thoughts about the new Star Trek announcements on "First Contact Day" on my Patreon.

Margaret Wander Bonanno, RIP.

Friday fanfare: "Can You Picture That?"

I say it's my birthday! And it's way better than last year's!

On Wrenn's and my fourth wedding anniversary.

IT'S A BOOK! I got my copies of Systema Paradoxa: All-the-Way House!

I'm going to be a guest at Pensacon in May, my first in-person convention since the apocalypse started. (Ironically, my last in-person convention was also Pensacon in February 2020...)

Stuff I've posted to Patreon in April.

I have autographed books for sale!

I never could get the hang of Thursdays, in which my wife breaks a bone.

My Sunday feeling: Happy Mothers Day!

A decade of writing for Tor.com.

Jupiter's Legacy is a huge disappointment.

My first in-person event of 2021 is helping inaugurate readings at Ample Hills Creamery in Brooklyn on Tuesday the 18th!

The compleat bibliography of Keith R.A. DeCandido.

Spider-Man: The Darkest Hours, an omnibus that includes Down These Mean Streets, is out in eBook format!

I'm on two nifty Dragon Con American Sci-Fi Classics Track panels, one on The Addams Family movie at 30, one speculating on what the MCU would've been like if it had started in 1988 instead of 2008.


Star Trek: Voyager Rewatch:

"Dark Frontier," "The Disease," "Course: Oblivion," "The Fight," "Think Tank," "Juggernaut," "Someone to Watch Over Me," "11:59," "Relativity," "Warhead," "Equinox," Fifth Season Overview, "Equinox, Part II," "Survival Instinct," "Barge of the Dead," "Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy," "Alice," "Riddles," "Dragon's Teeth," and "One Small Step."


KRAD COVID readings:

Star Trek: S.C.E.: Invincible Book 1: Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4.
Star Trek: S.C.E.: Invincible Book 2: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5.
Star Trek: S.C.E.: Here There Be Monsters: Part 1 and Part 2.


The Falcon and the Winter Soldier:

A brief history of the title characters in the comics, plus reviews of "New World Order," "The Star-Spangled Man," "Power Broker," "The Whole World is Watching," "Truth," and "One World, One People."

Current Music: "Industrial Disease" by Dire Straits
Current Mood: tired

Here's what we've had for the last month on the blog that I update more often than once a month.....

Friday fanfare is "Then the Music Begins" by Steve Rosenhaus, which features me on bongos.

Cover and table of contents for BIFF! BAM! EEE-YOW!: The Subterranean Blue Grotto Guide to Batman '66--Season Two.

Monday music is "Combat Zone" by the Nylons, both in the studio and live.

Midweek music is "A Man Like Me," also by Steve Rosenhaus.

Friday fanfare is one of my favorite versions of the New Orleans classic "Fire on the Bayou," by the great Jim Byrnes.

Irons in the fire update!

We're doing a blog tour for Turning the Tied, and here's a guide to the first batch of blogs and here's a guide to the second batch!

Wrenn and I got our first shot of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine!

The cover gallery (so far) for the Systema Paradoxa series of novellas about cryptids, including my own All-the-Way House.

New Story Bundle: Pulse-Pounding Thrillers, including Animal, my collaboration with Dr. Munish K. Batra.

Friday fanfare is one of my faves, Mark Knopfler's "Speedway at Nazareth."

An author interview on The Big Thrill about Animal.


Star Trek: Voyager Rewatch entries:

"Infinite Regress," "Nothing Human," "Thirty Days," "Counterpoint," "Latent Image," "Bride of Chaotica!" "Gravity," and "Bliss."

KRAD COVID readings

Star Trek: S.C.E.: Cold Fusion Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4.

Star Trek: S.C.E.: Invincible Book 1, Part 1.

Current Music: "Fallen Angel" by Robbie Robertson
Current Mood: tired

Here's the latest from my WordPress blog....

Me on the Dice Geeks podcast talking about writing and stuff.

I'm on a panel for Dragon Con's American Sci-Fi Classics Track about the 1990 Dick Tracy.

Monday music: "Weeping in the Promised Land" by John Fogerty.

Midweek music: "Keep on Rockin' in the Free World" by Neil Young.

Me on Kingdom of Graph.

Friday fanfare: "Slippery People" by Talking Heads.

Me on Mary Robinette Kowal's "My Favorite Bit" talking about Animal.

Me on The Mystery Hour with Con Sweeney on Second Life.

Monday music: "Pride (In the Name of Love)" by U2 in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

Also in honor of MLK Day, his famous "I have a dream" speech from 1963.

Cover reveal: my Systema Paradoxa novella All-the-Way House, coming out this summer.

Stuff what I'm writing in 2021.

An interview with me and my coauthor Dr. Munish K. Batra on Animal.

At last, a new President. (This was posted on Inauguration Day.)

Midweek music: "Presidential Rag" by Arlo Guthrie.

Friday fanfare: "Angelsea" by Cat Stevens.

The latest stuff I've posted to my Patreon.

Me, Derek Tyler Attico, and Jarrah Hodge talking about Star Trek with Russ Colchamiro on Russ's Rockin' Rollercoaster.

Monday music: "Bohemian Rhapsody" on trombones.

On rewatching old Aaron Sorkin shows, Sports Night and The West Wing.

Midweek music: "Bohemian Rhapsody" by the Muppets.

I never could get the hang of Thursdays, on writing, the pandemic, and The West Wing.

Friday fanfare: Bruce Springsteen's solo acoustic version of "Land of Hopes and Dreams" from President Biden's inauguration.

Me on Criminal Element talking about procedurals and Animal.

Monday music: "Hey Jude" by the NC State Marching Band.

I did a Reddit AMA! (And hey, you can still ask questions there if you want....)

The table of contents for the upcoming charity anthology from the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers, Turning the Tied.

Midweek music: Bach on boomwhackers.

My article for Tor.com on the way WandaVision is mining the history of American sitcoms, the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and most especially the history of the characters in their original comics form.




Star Trek: Voyager Rewatches:

"One," "Hope and Fear," fourth season overview, "Night," "Drone," "Extreme Risk," "In the Flesh," "Once Upon a Time," and "Timeless."


Star Trek: Discovery reviews:

"That Hope is You, Part 2" and the third season overview.


KRAD COVID readings:

Star Trek: S.C.E.: Fatal Error Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4.

Star Trek: S.C.E.: Cold Fusion Part 1.

Current Music: "Rain Dogs" by Tom Waits
Current Mood: busy

Here's what's been on DeCandido dot Word Press dot com over the last month.....

My 2005 Spider-Man novel Down These Mean Streets will be released in audio, and Blizzard has reissued my 2010 StarCraft manga Ghost Academy.

Friday fanfare: "Italian Christmastime."

I get my hot-offa-da-presses copy of Animal, the thriller I wrote with Dr. Munish K. Batra.

I did a Q&A on superhero movies as one of Dragon Con's American Sci-Fi Classics Track's "Quarantine Panels," along with Joe Crowe and Gary Mitchel.

A money-saving tip for cat owners.

Midweek music: "A Christmas Carol" by Tom Lehrer.

Friday fanfare: "New York State of Mind" by Billy Joel on the one-year anniversary of my seeing him in concert.

Dave Galanter, RIP.

Paul Semel interviews me about Animal.

My Sunday feeling on the impending holiday, a weekend full of Zoom gatherings, putting up our tree, and more.

The traditional winter solstice posting of Susan Cooper's poem "The Shortest Day."

43 years of Christmas Eve (kind of).

What I put on my Patreon between mid-November and late December.

Stuff what I wrote in 2020.

Star Trek has put out its 800th installment!

Happy New Year!

A look back at 2020, primarily at the positives, even though the negatives were, um, a lot.

Happy book birthday to Animal!

The compleat bibliography of Keith R.A. DeCandido.


KRAD COVID readings:

"Unguarded" from Horns and Halos, "The Fall of Iaron" from the Dragon Precinct universe, "A Child's Christmas in Wales" by Dylan Thomas, and Star Trek: S.C.E.: Fatal Error Part 1. Plus an announcement on the 2021 plan for the channel.


Star Trek: Voyager Rewatch:

"The Killing Game" Part 1 and Part 2, "Vis à Vis," "The Omega Directive," Unforgettable," "Living Witness," and "Demon." I also posted highlights from the year's Voyager Rewatch posts, covering season one, season two, season three, and what I did of season four.


Star Trek: Discovery reviews:

"The Sanctuary," "Terra Firma" Part 1 and Part 2, "Su'Kal," and "There is a Tide..."


4-Color to 35-Millimeter: The Great Superhero Movie Rewatch:

The Old Guard and The New Mutants.

Current Music: "Nutbush City Limits" by Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band
Current Mood: busy

Here's what's gone on in the last month on the blog that I regularly update..............

I appeared on SciFi4Me's "Live from the Bunker," talkin' writin' and stuff...

An update on what I've put on my Patreon.

Both the Electoral College and the Reapportionment Act of 1929 suck rocks, and here's why.

The traditional Veteran's Day running of "In Flanders Fields."

Animal, my collaboration with Dr. Munish K. Batra, is available for preorder! And if you preorder it from WordFire Press before Christmas Eve, you get a free short story!

Another update on what I've put on Patreon.

I did an "ask me anything" thread on the blog, and also on Facebook and Twitter. Only got one question on the blog, and a few on Twitter. Most were, unsurprisingly, on Facebook.

A holiday sale from eSpec Books, publishers of my "Precinct" series, Without a License, To Hell and Regroup, and several anthologies I'm in!

On Thanksgiving, the traditional "stuff for what I'm thankful" post, as well as the traditional posting of Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant."

From Patreon: my review of Star Wars: The Clone Wars from May 2020.

Coming in 2021: Turning the Tied with a story by me featuring Ayesha, a.k.a. "she who must be obeyed" from H. Rider Haggard's She.

Irons in the fire update.


KRAD COVID readings

"Sun-Breaker" from Stargate SG-1/Atlantis: Homeworlds, "Down to the Waterline" from BuzzyMag.com Part 1 and Part 2 and Part 3, "The Midwinter of Our Discontent" from Release the Virgins, "Playing it SAFE" from The Ultimate Hulk, "Raymond's Room" from Doctor Who: Missing Pieces, Star Trek: The Next Generation: Enterprises of Great Pitch and Moment Part 1 and Part 2 and Part 3, and "In Earth and Sky and Sea Strange Things There Be" from Turning the Tied.


Star Trek: Voyager Rewatches

"Concerning Flight," "Mortal Coil," "Waking Moments," "Message in a Bottle," "Hunters," "Prey," and "Retrospect."


Star Trek: Discovery reviews

"Forget Me Not," "Die Trying," "Scavengers," and "Unification III."

Current Music: "Layla" by Eric Clapton
Current Mood: busy

Here's what I've posted on DeCandido.wordpress.com over the last five and a half weeks:

A panel on the 50th anniversary of The Eye of Argon, the famously awful fantasy novella, with Michael A. Ventrella, Gail Z. Martin, Ian Randal Strock, and Hildy Silverman.

Cover reveal: To Hell and Regroup, the new book by me & David Sherman.

A nice review of my Leverage novel The Zoo Job.

Monday music: "Everyone Else is an Asshole" by Reel Big Fish.

I have autographed books for sale! They make dandy gifts!

Midweek music: "Cry No More" by Rhiannon Giddens, et al.

New cover reveal for Animal by me & Dr. Munish K. Batra.

Today in weird e-mails............

A review in German of one of my earliest works of Star Trek fiction, the Starfleet Corps of Engineers novella Fatal Error.

Monday music: Kicking off a mess of songs by Yusuf a.k.a. Cat Stevens with "Longer Boats."

Midweek music: more Yusuf/Cat Stevens with "Peace Train."

My schedule for the virtual Capclave. (This has since come and gone, of course....)

Friday fanfare: more Yusuf/Cat Stevens with "Morning Has Broken."

A good week!

Preorder links for To Hell and Regroup by self and David Sherman, as well as The 18th Race Omnibus. As a bonus, a kudo from my collaborator.....

Monday music: more Yusuf/Cat Stevens with Moonshadow.

Midweek music: "Success Story" by The Who.

My Sunday feeling on karate, teaching, writing, and voting.

Gratuitous cover post!

I join the folks at Sci-Fi Diner for a chat about Star Trek: Voyager in general and "Caretaker" in particular.

My Sunday feeling about a particularly crappy Hallowe'en weekend.

I join the weekly gabfest about the latest episode of Supernatural for the Dragon Con Urban Fantasy Track, in this case discussing "Unity" with Gail Z. Martin, Beth Dolgner, Damian Allen, Kristin Jackson, and moderator Carol Malcolm.



KRAD COVID readings:

"Three Sides to Every Story" from BattleTech: 25 Years of Art & Fiction, "Chaos Theory" from the Dragon Precinct universe, "Save the Cheerleader, Destroy the World" Part 1 and Part 2 and Part 3 and Part 4 and Part 5 from Heroes Reborn: Collection Two, "Revelations" from Star Trek: New Frontier: No Limits, "Wild Bill Got Shot" from Without a License, "Crime of Passion" from Hear Them Roar, "Fish Out of Water" from Out of Tune, "Seven-Mile Race" from Without a License, "Behind the Wheel" from TV Gods: Summer Programming, "Horn and Ivory" Part 1 and Part 2 and Part 3 from Star Trek: Gateways: What Lay Beyond, "UNITed We Fall" from Doctor Who: Decalog 3: Consequences, "Gan Brightblade vs. Mitos the Mighty" from the Dragon Precinct universe, "House Hunting" from They Keep Killing Glenn, "Live and on the Scene" from Nights of the Living Dead, and "Family Matters" from Star Trek: Mirror Universe: Shards and Shadows.


Star Trek: Voyager Rewatch entries:

Third season overview, "Scorpion, Part II," "The Gift," "Day of Honor," "Nemesis," "Revulsion," "The Raven," "Year of Hell" Part 1 and Part 2, and "Random Thoughts."


Star Trek: Lower Decks reviews:

"Veritas," "Crisis Point," "No Small Parts," and the first season overview.


Star Trek: Discovery reviews:

"That Hope is You," "Far from Home," and "People of Earth."

Current Music: "St. James Infirmary" by King Oliver
Current Mood: blah

Here's the latest stuff on DeCandido dot WordPress dot com.......................

Continuing my efforts to drum up more support on my Patreon, I posted a sample of one of the vignettes that I write for folks who support at $10/month or higher and a sample of a completed first-draft chapter that $20/month supporters get to see. I also posted a list of what I did in August on Patreon, as well as links to all the samples I put up.

Friday fanfare: U2, Mick Jagger, will.i.am, and Fergie performing "Gimme Shelter."

One of Dragon Con's American Sci-Fi Classics Quarantine Panels that they did over the course of the past few months: "Novelization Readings," featuring me, Gary Mitchel, Joe Crowe, Sue Kisenwether, John Hudgens, Michael Bailey, Alison Sky Richards, and Darin Bush both talking about and reading from our favorite movie novelizations. I read from Serenity, and the high point was Sue reading one of the more turgid passages from Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek: The Motion Picture novelization....

From the archives: my review of 42, presented in memory of Chadwick Boseman.

More remembering Chadwick Boseman with quotes from my reviews of his performances in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

I was supposed to be Author Guest of Honor at Bubonicon 52 last month, but the convention was cancelled for obvious reasons. They did, however, hold a virtual con, as many cons have done, and I still got to be a guest. My programming was all archived, too: a reading from A Furnace Sealed, "Writing 101" with me, Susan R. Matthews, Lauren C. Teffeau, Walter Jon Williams, and Connie Willis, and "Mythology & Gods in Fiction: When Deities Matter" with me, Reese Hogan, Chaz Kemp, Rebecca Roanhorse, and Lauren C. Teffeau.

Receiving my contributor copies of the graphic novels Icarus and Jellinek, which I adapted into comic book form from Gregory A. Wilson's novel.

Talkin' anthologies with Randee Dawn and Michael A. Ventrella for the Pocono Liars Club.

Dragon Con was also cancelled in person this year, but they too did a massive virtual con, and I was on a ton of programming over the course of Labor Day weekend. All of it is archived in this post, including panels, readings, gab-fests, etc. on subjects ranging from music to Doctor Who to Sherlock Holmes to superhero movies to stuff that happened in 1985 and much more.

The only thing I really had to say on 11 September.

New stuff on Patreon since my previous update.

My appearance on "The Rotunda" radio show on WBOB 990 FM, conveniently archived.


KRAD COVID readings: "The Ceremony of Innocence is Drowned" from Star Trek: Tales of the Dominion War, "Partners in Crime" from Without a License, "Identity" from Baker Street Irregulars, "Cayo Hueso: A Tale of Cassie Zukav, Weirdness Magnet" Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5, "The Stone of the First High Pontiff" from Defending the Future: Best Laid Plans, "Alien Invasion of Earth!" from Thrilling Adventure Yarns, "A Bone to Pick" from Did You Say Chicks!?, "Four Lights" from Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Sky's the Limit</a>, "A Clean Getaway" from Pandora's Closet, "God of Blunder" from Ragnarok and Roll</a>, and "Ten Little Aliens" from the Farscape Role-Playing Game.

Star Trek: Voyager Rewatch: "Rise," "Favorite Son," "Before and After," "Real Life," "Distant Origin," "Displaced," "Worst Case Scenario," and "Scorpion."

Star Trek: Lower Decks reviews: "Moist Vessel," "Cupid's Errant Arrow," "Terminal Provocation," and "Much Ado About Boimler."

Current Music: "Sinnerman" by Nina Simone
Current Mood: busy

Here's the latest from DeCandido dot Wordpress dot com:

I've been trying to drum up business for my Patreon. Please, consider supporting, as you get lots of nifty stuff. I've been posting samples from each tier, and so far we've got a movie review (John Wick Chapter 3: Parabellum from the $1/month tier, cat pictures from the $2/month tier, a TV review (Jessica Jones season three) from the $5/month tier, and some excerpts from various works in progress from the $7/month tier.

Friday fanfare is Rhiannon Giddens performing "Build a House."

Video of the two panels I did for Shore Leave 41.5: "The Mandalorian," along with Christopher D. Abbott, Mary Fan, Glenn Hauman, and Laura Ware; and the Summer Book Release party, alongside Christopher and Mary again, plus Rigel Ailur, Christopher L. Bennett, Greg Cox, Michael Jan Friedman, Robert Greenberger, Paul Kupperberg, David Mack, John Jackson Miller, Joshua Palmatier, and Dayton Ward.

An interview with me on the Brasilian gaming web site Evil Hazard about my three Resident Evil movie novelizations.

"Got A Minute?" interviews me at Pensacon, the last con I attended in person before the pandemic....

An episode of "Hot Off the Press" from Con-Tinual: The Con That Never Ends, as various folks from eSpec Books talk about their new and upcoming releases, including me, Danielle Ackley-McPhail, James Chambers, Megan Mackie, and Robert E. Waters.

Friday fanfare is Arlo Guthrie, Jim Wilson, Vanessa Bryan, Stanley Clarke, Brad Cole, Charlie Morgan, Andy McKee, and a gospel choir featuring Dasha Chadwick, Nic Jackson, and Dillon O’Brien collaborating virtually to produce a new version of “Hard Times Come Again No More.”

Announcing a new Kickstarter for what is initially a double crowdfund for Megan Mackie's The Devil's Day and Michelle D. Sonnier's An Unceasing Hunger, and which later hit the two stretch goals that made it a quadruple crowdfund, including Ty Drago's Dragon and the anthology Horns and Halos, which includes a story by me!!!

My review of Umbrella Academy season two for Tor dot com.

I never could get the hang of Thursdays -- on losing power for (at that point) two days and counting. However, power was eventually restored, thank fuck....

Video of an alternate history workshop run by JL Gribble that I participated in with fellow author Maria V. Snyder and comedian/podcaster Jay Whittaker.

What Wrenn and I did for GISH this year.

Monday music is Leadbelly's classic "Midnight Special."

From the archives: the redshirt phenomenon.

Midweek music is a different version of "Midnight Special," this one by Little Richard.

On sale now: Pangaea Book 3: Redemption, which includes my story "Journalistic Integrity."

Friday fanfare is a superb live version of "Rubberband Man" by the Spinners.

More from the eSpec Books Reading Series, with readings by Danielle Ackley-McPhail, Mary Fan, John Hemry, Paul Kupperberg, Gordon Linzner, Megan Mackie, Lisanne Norman, Jenifer Purcell Rosenberg, Joanna Schnurman, Denise Sutton, Robert E. Waters, Jeff Young, and me!

My current ranking of the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies.

Irons in the fire update!

Midweek music is Merry Clayton's version of "Gimme Shelter."

The latest eSpec Books Author Spotlight is on me, talking about my story in Horns and Halos.

Available for preorder, and coming next spring: Spider-Man: The Darkest Hours Omnibus featuring Spidey novels by Jim Butcher, Christopher L. Bennett, and me (my 2005 novel Down These Mean Streets).


KRAD COVID readings: "Blood in the Water" from Tales from Dragon Precinct, "The Silent Dust" from Brave New Girls: Adventures of Gals and Gizmos, "Streets of Fire" from V-Wars: Night Terrors, "Brotherly Love" from Farscape: The Official Magazine, "An Evening in the Bronx with Venom" from The Ultimate Spider-Man (my first-ever work of published fiction, done for the landmark 50th episode of the series), "Getting the Chair" from Murder by Magic, "How You Can Prevent Forest Fires..." from Urban Nightmares, "Journalistic Integrity" from Pangaea Book 3: Redemption, and "Right On, Sister!" Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 from Limbus Inc. Book 3.

Star Trek: Voyager Rewatch: "The Q and the Grey," "Macrocosm," "Fair Trade," "Alter Ego," "Coda," "Blood Fever," and "Darkling."

Star Trek: Lower Decks reviews: "Second Contact," "Envoys," and "Temporal Edict."

Current Music: "Castle Transylvania" by Boogie Knights
Current Mood: busy

Here's what I've put on my other blog of late:

Midweek music: "Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes" by Paul Simon and Ladysmith Black Mambazo.

Friday fanfare: "Endicott" by Kid Creole & the Coconuts.

My review of Warrior Nun season one on Tor dot com.

Bad Ass Moms -- which has my story "Materfamilias" -- is now on sale!

The entire "Day of Honor" event -- which had, among many other things, a talk about the Star Trek Adventures Klingon Empire Core Rulebook with several of its architects, including me, Rick Sternbach, Kelli Fitzpatrick, and Derek Tyler Attico, among many others -- available as a video!

My reading of a segment of Alien: Isolation, originally done for InConStasis, the virtual version of this year's InConJunction, now available to the general public.

A new addition to the pinned post at the top of the blog: a guide to the KRAD COVID readings.

Monday music: "Mannish Boy" by Muddy Waters and The Band.

Me on a panel talking about the Star Trek Adventures Klingon Empire Core Rulebook with Michael Dismuke of "Continuing Mission," alongside Derek Tyler Attico, Kelli Fitzpatrick, Jim Johnson, and Aaron Pollyea.

Monday music: "At the Purchaser's Option" by Rhiannon Giddens.

Midweek music: "St. James Infirmary" by Rhiannon Giddens and the Silk Road Ensemble.

Midweek music extra: two versions of "Cadillac Ranch" by Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, in honor of my grandfather, who died 44 years ago the day I posted this.


Star Trek: Voyager Rewatches: "Remember," "Sacred Ground," "Future's End," "Future's End, Part II," and "Warlord."

KRAD COVID readings: "Love Over and Over" from Ragnarok and Roll; "The Unhappy Ones" from Star Trek: Seven Deadly Sins Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5; "Baker's Dozen" from the Dragon Precinct universe; and "Heroes Welcome" from Tales from Dragon Precinct.

Current Music: "Cruel Sister" by Pentangle
Current Mood: busy

Here's what's new on DeCandido.wordpress.com, which I update way more often than I do this one................

More from the eSpec Books reading series, including me reading from Supernatural: Bone Key, plus Michael A. Ventrella, Robert E. Waters, and Brenda Cooper.

With the release of HBO's Watchmen on home video, I reprint my review of same from Patreon.

The official statement from the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers regarding Black Lives Matter.

Friday fanfare is "Lonesome Road/Up Above My Head" by Rhiannon Giddens.

A nice review of my 2010 Star Trek comic book Captain's Log: Jellico.

Finishing the first draft of "The Gorvangin Rampages: A Dragon Precinct Story," which I crowdfunded.

Monday music is "Which Way to America?" by Living Colour.

My reading from Star Trek: Klingon Empire: A Burning House, which I did for KAG Kon 2020: Home Invasion.

Midweek music is "Alabama Bound" by Leadbelly.

The Dragon Precinct Chronology, a new pinned post that arranges all the "Precinct" novels, short stories, and vignettes in chronological story order.

Friday fanfare is two versions of "St. James Infirmary," by Cab Calloway in 1950 and Trombone Shorty in 2012.

Me on "Author Reads" from FAE Productions, reading from A Furnace Sealed and answering viewer questions.

New stuff I've posted to Patreon, including a movie review, a bunch of TV reviews, a ton of cat pictures, two vignettes, four excerpts from works in progress, and completed chapters.

Monday music is "Walk This Way" by Aerosmith & Run DMC.

A nice review of Dragon Precinct.

A piece on StarTrek.com listing ten essential Jean-Luc Picard stories in prose and comics form, including my 1999 comic book Perchance to Dream.

Midweek music is Paul Simon, Stevie Wonder, and the Dixie Hummingbirds doing "Loves Me Like a Rock."

I never could get the hang of Thursdays, on being incredibly domestic.

Friday fanfare is Rhiannon Giddens doing "Under a Harlem Moon."

Happy Fathers Day!

Monday music is "Crossroad Blues" by the great Robert Johnson.

Tuesdya's dead, on an overly eventful day.

Midweek music is B.B. King performing at Sing Sing Prison on Thanksgiving Day 1972.

Friday fanfare is Muddy Waters in a Chicago club performing "Baby Please Don't Go," during which he's joined by audience members Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and Ron Wood.

Monday music is "Township Jive," performed by Paul Simon, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, and Hugh Masekela.

Midweek music is Hugh Masekela's "Stimela."

Friday fanfare is Paul Simon and Miriam Makeeba performing "Under African Skies."

Why we celebrate Independence Day.

Monday music is another version of "Township Jive," this time by Ladysmith Black Mambazo.

Announcing the latest from Star Trek Adventures, the Klingon Empire Core Rulebook with lots of material by me!

My Christmas present from Stan Lee.

The compleat bibliography of Keith R.A. DeCandido.

Two online events I'm doing this weekend: Shore Leave 41.5 and "Day of Honor."

As part of "ConTinual," Gail Z. Martin interviews me about tie-in writing in general and Supernatural novels in particular.


Star Trek: Voyager Rewatch entries: "The Thaw," "Tuvix," "Resolutions," "Basics, Part I," Second Season Overview, "Basics, Part II," "Flashback," "The Chute," "The Swarm," and "False Profits."

KRAD COVID readings: "The Ballad of Big Charlie" Part 3 from V-Wars, "Broken Oaths" from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Prophecy and Change, "I Belive I'm Sinkin' Down" from Tales from the House Band Volume 2, "Fire in the Hole" from Dragon's Lure, "Sunday in the Park with Spot" from Furry Fantastic, "House Arrest" from Bad-Ass Faeries, "Meiyo" from Battlecorps.com, "Deep Background" from Aliens: Bug Hunt, "Recurring Character" from The Further Adventures of Xena Warrior Princess, "Editorial Interference" from Circles in the Hair, "-30-" from Viral Part 1 and Part 2 and Part 3, "Ràn for Your Life" from Unearthed, and "Undine the Boardwalk" from Bad-Ass Faeries: It's Elemental.

4-Color to 35-Millimeter: The Great Superhero Movie Rewatch: Bloodshot, Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn), and Faust: Love of the Damned.

Current Music: "Baby Please Don't Go" by Muddy Waters, with Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, & Ron Wood
Current Mood: busy

An update on stuff over on my Word Press blog, which is updated way more often than this one.....

A panel on tie-in fiction from the Stay in Place Virtual Writing Conference, featuring me, Jonathan Maberry, and Kevin Killiany.

From the archives: how to be a media tie-in novelist in six easy steps, an article from 2000 that still holds up two decades later...

A link to my article on Tor.com with seven thoughts on the announcement of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.

I will be at KAG Kon 2020: Home Invasion!

Cover reveal/new book announcement: Animal by Munish K. Batra, M.D., & Keith R.A. DeCandido, coming this fall from WordFire Press.

More from the eSpec Books reading series, including me reading from Mermaid Precinct, plus readings by Teel James Glenn, Carol Gyzander, Robert E. Waters, Gail Z. Martin, Danielle Ackley-McPhail, and the late great C.J. Henderson.

Stuff of mine that's coming in 2020.

Star Trek: Articles of the Federation turns 15!

A report on Virtual Balticon 54 and also on the eSpec Books launch party at same.

A very nice review of Alien: Isolation.

Midweek music is the very appropriate "Funny Vibe" by Living Colour.

Noticing things from my position of privilege.

Some interesting blog stats. (Some of the most-read pieces on the new blogs are reprints from this blog, by the way...)


KRAD COVID readings: "Life from Lifelessness" from Doctor Who: Short Trips: Destination Prague, "The Puzzle" from Footprints in the Stars, "Time Keeps on Slippin'" from Stargate SG-1/Atlantis: Far Horizons, "God Sins" from Magic: The Gathering: Distant Planes, "Tropes Abandoned, Tropes as Yet Unseen" from ZLONK! ZOK! ZOWIE! The Subterranean Blue Grotto Guide to Batman '66--Season One, "Send in the Clones" from The Side of Good/The Side of Evil, and "The Ballad of Big Charlie" Part 1 and Part 2 (Part 3 will go live on Friday 5 June).

Star Trek: Voyager Rewatches: "Death Wish," "Lifesigns," "Investigations," "Deadlock," and "Innocence."

Current Music: "The Whaler's Dues" by Jethro Tull
Current Mood: tired

Here's what's been on the Word Press blog over the last month or so.....

I posted two final reading lists: stuff in worlds of my own creation and collaborations, shared worlds, and other miscellaneous stuff.

I've also been posting embedded vidoes of my KRAD COVID readings on the Tube of You, in which I've read "Letter from Guadalajara" (from 2011's More Tales of Zorro), "Diary of a False Man" (from 2000's X-Men Legends), "Back in El Paso My Life Will Be Worthless" (from 2015's The X-Files: Trust No One), "When the Magick Goes Away" (from a 2012 crowdfund, reprinted in Tales from Dragon Precinct), "loDnI'pu' vavpu' je" (from 2005's Star Trek: Tales from the Captain's Table), "Arms and the Man" (from 1997's Untold Tales of Spider-Man), "Materfamilias" (from 2020's Bad Ass Moms), the first chapter of 2001's Here There Be Monsters (part of the Star Trek: Starfleet Corps of Engineers series), "Many a Mile to Freedom" (from 2001's Farscape: The Official Magazine #1), "Catch and Release" (from 2013's Tales from Dragon Precinct), and "Ragnarok and Roll" (from 2011's Tales from the House Band Volume 1).

Monday music is "Beautiful Madness" by Robbie Robertson.

More readings from Across the Universe: Tales of Alternate Beatles, including Patrick Barb reading "When I'm #64," Beth Patterson reading "Cayenne," Sally Wiener Grotta reading "The Truth Within," and Carol Gyzander reading "Deal with the Devil."

The publisher of my "Precinct" books and Without a License, eSpec Books is having a "stuck at home" sale where all their eBooks are $.99 each!

From the archives: wow, does Daybreakers suck...

The eSpec Books reading series! The first set has Danielle Ackley-McPhail reading "Brothers (from Defending the Future: Dogs of War) and "A Legacy of Stars" (from the eponymous collection), Jeff Young reading "Bucket Brigade" (from Defending the Future: In Harm's Way), and me reading two chapters from To Hell and Regroup, my collaboration with David Sherman. The next bunch includes Danielle reading from Baba Ali and the Clockwork Djinn, her collaboration with Day Al-Mohamed, and also reading her stories "The Heart of the Sun" (from Flashes in the Can) and "Turtles All the Way Down" (from The Die is Cast), Christopher L. Bennett reading an excerpt from Arachne's Crime, James Chambers reading "The Last Great Monologue of Evil Intent" (from The Side of Good/The Side of Evil), Jeff Young reading "Finder" (from The Society for the Preservation of C.J. Henderson), Megan Mackie reading an excerpt from Finder of the Lucky Devil, and Alma Alexander reading from The Second Star.

I say it's my birthday, as I talk about celebrating my 51st birthday in lockdown...

A nice review of A Furnace Sealed.

Shore Leave officially postponed, unsurprisingly.

Laura Anne Gilman and I are interviewed by Mike Zipser for Fast Forward.

Monday music is "Nothin' I Can Do About It" by Michael McCloud.

My talk on the business of writing for the Stay In Place Virtual Writing Conference that was held over Facebook.

I'm a guest on The FBI's Most Unwanted podcast talking about The X-Files.

A general expression of hatred for the state the world is in right now.

A celebratory Mothers Day post for the mothers in my life.

Martin Pasko, RIP.

Irons in the fire update.

From the archives: a most excellent birthday, from 18 April 2008, where I spent my 39th birthday at New York Comic-Con having an amazing time.

Results of an informal poll asking my social media contacts how they first encountered my writing.

I'm on "Morning Flight," the YouTube series from my alma mater, Cardinal Spellman High School.


And there's the usual posts pimping the Star Trek: Voyager Rewatch (including "Persistence of Vision," "Tattoo," "Cold Fire," "Maneuvers," "Resistance," "Prototype," "Alliances," "Threshold," "Meld," and "Dreadnought") and my Patreon (which has had a crapton of new content over the last few weeks).

Current Mood: tired
Current Music: "Go Back to Your Woods" by Robbie Robertson

Many of the posts on my Word Press blog are pimping my Star Trek: Voyager Rewatch entries (since I last posted here, I've done "Elogium," "Non Sequitur," "Twisted," and "Parturition") as well as my overview of the first season of Star Trek: Picard.

Randee Dawn has been posting readings of the stories in the anthology she and Michael A. Ventrella edited, Across the Universe: Tales of Alternative Beatles.

I have also continued KRAD COVID readings, providing readings of my stories "Letting Go" (from 2005's Star Trek: Voyager: Distant Shores), "Improper Procedure" (from 1995's The Ultimate Silver Surfer), "A Vampire and a Vampire Hunter Walk Into a Bar" (from a 2005 issue of Amazing Stories), "Under the King's Bridge" (from 2011's Liar Liar), "We Seceded Where Others Failed" (from 2016's Altered States of the Union), and "Six Red Dragons" (from 2018's Baker Street Irregulars: The Game is Afoot).

I provided more reading lists, including of my work based on movies, my work based on games, and my comic-book-related work.

Other posts:

I provided an irons in the fire update for the first time in a while.

Midweek music is Paul Simon and the Jesse Dixon Singers performing "Loves Me Like a Rock" on The Dick Cavett Show.

Friday fanfare is a Japanese version of "Smoke on the Water" that is amazing.

A nice review of my Star Trek: The Next Generation novel Q & A.

On sale now: ZLONK! ZOK! ZOWIE!: The Subterranean Blue Grotto Guide to Batman '66--Season One, with my essay on "Fine Feathered Finks"/"The Penguin's a Jinx."

A sad remembrance of Joe Migliucci, the owner of Mario's Restaurant, one of our favorite restaurants, and also where Wrenn and I got married. Joe died from coronavirus complications at the age of 81.

SHE RIDES! I finished "Materfamilias," my story for Bad Ass Moms.

Please consider supporting the crowdfund for two science fiction novels, To Hell and Regroup by myself and David Sherman and Arachne's Crime by Christopher L. Bennett.

Current Mood: busy
Current Music: "Don't Do It" by The Band

The fine folks at eSpec Books have started a new crowdfund for two nifty new science fiction novels, one of which I co-wrote!

For years, David Sherman's fans have been clamoring for the final part of his "18th Race" trilogy, following Issue in Doubt and In All Directions. I edited those first two books, and David asked me to coauthor the final book, To Hell and Regroup, with him. This final novel in the action-packed trilogy that pits North American Union forces against the invading alien "Dusters" on a human colony world is one of the two books being crowdfunded here.

The other is the first of a planned duology by Christopher L. Bennett. Best known for his Star Trek fiction (the most recent of which is the newly released The Higher Frontier), Arachne's Crime, about a harrowing encounter with new alien species in a twisted tale of blame and redemption where responsibility and motives are not as clear as they may seem.

I know times are really hard right now, and not everyone has extra money to spend on things, but I also know that quality entertainment is one of the things that will get us through this nonsense. So please, consider supporting these projects, even if it's only a $1 pledge. And hey, the first batch of supporters get some free stories, too!

And even if you can't support, any signal-boosting you could do would be hugely appreciated.

Check it out!

 

Current Music: "He Don't Live Here No More" by Robbie Robertson
Current Mood: busy

Again, I've been bad about updating this blog, since the Word Press blog is the place to go, but last time I did an update, I got some grateful notes on it, so I'm gonna try to be better about keeping this up.

The big things....

With "4-Color to 35-Millimeter: The Great Superhero Movie Rewatch" having come to an end, my new regular feature for Tor.com is "The Star Trek: Voyager Rewatch," which I announced on the show's 25th anniversary, 16 January 2020, and which kicked off on the 24th, and has appeared regularly on Monday and Thursday since.

In addition, I've reviewed each episode of the first season of Star Trek: Picard from its debut in late January to its conclusion this past week (with a first-season overview still to come).

With the onset of the coronavirus and a lot of people stuck at home for extended periods, I've started a YouTube channel called "KRAD COVID readings" in which I'm reading various works of my short fiction. Five episodes are up as I write this, and I will be continuing this for a while now. (I've got close to a hundred works of short fiction, so plenty of material...............)

I've also been providing reading lists for fans of my work. I updated my bibliography in January, and I've also provided a list of my Star Trek work, my other TV-related work, and my movie-related work. Still to come is my gaming and comics work, my various original works, and everything that doesn't fit any of those categories.

While Monday music, midweek music, and Friday fanfare don't appear three times a week like they should, they do still show up occasionally. Check out "Boléro" (by the accurately named Highly Irritating Orchestra), "Highway to Hell" (on ukeleles), "Pinball Wizard" (as a sea shanty), "Amazing Grace" and "Mbube" (both as performed by Ladysmith Black Mambazo, both posted in honor of the passing of the group's founder Joseph Shabalala), "If I Had a Mighty Army" (by my band Boogie Knights), "Room to Move" (one of my favorite songs), "Pizzica di San Vito" (as performed by Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi), "Mari Mac" (posted in honor of St. Patrick's Day, as performed by Great Big Sea), "Mambo Italiano" (posted in honor of Italy's current suffering from COVID-19, as performed by Hetty & the Jazzato Band), and "Splendid Isolation" (an eerily appropriate Warren Zevon song).


Other highlights......

Several of the Marvel prose titles I edited in the 1990s are now available as audiobooks, as well as two anthologies I have stories in, The Ultimate Spider-Man and Untold Tales of Spider-Man.

Me on "Misfit Monday."

On a day out for a haircut and beard trim, along with pizza, coffee, and more.

A look at the number of comments each movie got in "4-Color to 35-Millimeter: The Great Superhero Movie Rewatch."

A reminder that you can still support the Indie GoGo for my two upcoming short stories "The Gorvangin Rampages: A Dragon Precinct Story" and "Ragnarok and a Hard Place: A Tale of Cassie Zukav, Weirdness Magnet."

Me on Eating the Fantastic with Scott Edelman.

Pimping the release of a new book by my friend, and fellow karateka, Libby Copeland, The Lost Family: How DNA Testing is Upending Who We Are.

Cover reveal for ZLONK! ZOK! ZOWIE!: The Subterranean Blue Grotto Guide to Batman '66--Season One, in which I have an essay.

A nifty article on Alien fiction, in which I was one of the authors interviewed.

A nice review of Altered States of the Union, which singles out my story in same for praise.

Two reviews of my Star Trek novel Ferenginar: Satisfaction Is Not Guaranteed, one in German, one in English.

Episode 381 of The SciFi Diner Podcast is the Star Trek Mirror Universe panel I was a part of at Farpoint in Feburary.

Current Music: "Get Behind the Mule" by Tom Waits
Current Mood: scared

Okay, so I've been bad about updating this blog, which at this point is just a linkdump for the new blog. I suppose there might still be people reading this blog, but you really should be reading the Word Press blog, as that's where I'm keeping up with things.

I'm not going to link everything from the last six months, but here are some highlights:

My Sunday feeling on a particularly crazy few weeks, with things both good and bad.

Highlights from a year's worth of "4-Color to 35-Millimeter: The Great Superhero Movie Rewatch" part one and part two.

A report on my KGB reading with the mighty Chuck Wendig plus a link to the audio recording of the reading.

A report on my appearance at Shore Leave 41.

A GISH-inspired plea for the people of Laos. (GISH is the Great International Scavenger Hunt run annually by Supernatural's Misha Collins.)

What Wrenn and I did for GISH as part of Team Inevitable Meta.

On the third anniversary of moving to our current home.

On the 18th anniversary of 9/11.

"Toxic Masculinity and Carol Danvers."

On the 15th anniversary of my starting martial arts.

A report on the book launch of Across the Universe: Tales of Alternate Beatles at Brooklyn Commons as part of the New York Review of Science Fiction reading series.

Remembering D.C. Fontana and Rene Auberjonois.

My Sunday feeling on a glorious day of food, music, and tea.

My family's Christmas Eve family photos in front of the tree every ten years from 1979 to 2019.

One picture a year of me from 2010-2019.

A look back at the ups and downs of 2019.

Tuesday's dead on a great, if exhausting, weekend.

Current Mood: sick
Current Music: "Back Door Angels" by Jethro Tull

Here's the latest on the blog that I actually update regularly...........


DeCandido's Rules!

Thinking about two important people in my life who died, one on the anniversary of his death, the other on her birthday.

Midweek music: "Rock Lobster."

Revealing the table of contents and the cover for Unearthed, as well as the illustration for my story in it, which is a new tale of Cassie Zukav, weirdness magnet.

I'm gonna be at Planet Comic-Con. And then when I got back, I wrote about the experience....

Friday fanfare: "Kansas City Papa."

Monday music: "500 Tubthumps."

My HELIOsphere 2019 schedule.

A nice review of my Star Trek: I.K.S. Gorkon novel Enemy Territory.

Trying to figure out what order to do the Phase 3 Marvel Cinematic Universe movies in for "4-Color to 35-Millimeter."

I appear on Literary Treks to talk about my novel Articles of the Federation.

Monday music: "Women with a Y."

Midweek music: "Everybody Knows" by Sigrid.

I will be (or, rather, have been) at AwesomeCon.

Musings on turning fifty and past 0 year birthdays, and then talking about my actual fiftieth birthday celebration.

Friday fanfare: "Everybody Knows" by the Washington Squares.

Kickstarter for In Harm's Way, Footprints in the Stars, and Devil Dancers (which has since been funded successfully!).

Monday music: "Everybody Knows" by Leonard Cohen.

Appearing on Hour of the Wolf on WBAI FM in New York.

My review of Avengers: Infinity War, reprinted from Patreon, where I posted it right after the movie's theatrical release.

My pre-Endgame rankings of the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies.

Midweek music: "Come Together" by Gary Clark Jr. & Junkie XL.

Cover reveal: Alien: Isolation.

Talking about A Furnace Sealed on Author Week.

Monday music: "Come Together" by the Beatles.

Midweek music: "Budapest."

Thoughts on the 21st anniversary of my freelance career.

Pimping my stuff on Patreon, including a review of Avengers: Endgame.

My Balticon 53 schedule.

Peter Mayhew, RIP.

A nice review of my Star Trek: Klingon Empire novel A Burning House.

Preorder links for Alien: Isolation.

Monday music: "Walk This Way."

I will be at MegaCon Orlando!

I'm on The Next Trek Podcast talking about the second season of Star Trek Discovery.

Midweek music: "Further On Up the Road."

Happy Mothers Day!

From the archives: the ending to How I Met Your Mother was perfect and good.

June's KGB Fantastic Fiction readers are me and Chuck Wendig!

On sale now: Unearthed. Plus an interview with me about my story in the anthology.

A nice review (in German) of my Star Trek novel Articles of the Federation.

Midweek music: "Superman (I Want to Fly Like)."

Preorder the eBook of Brave New Girls: Adventures of Gals and Gizmos, with a new story by me!

My fiction writing by year, plus a breakdown of each year by type of fiction.

Video of the Star Wars panel I did with Amanda Cherry, Leo Roberts, Gibbitt Rhys-Jones, and Jeff Ayers at Emerald City Comic Con.

Gratuitous cover post!

I will be at Indy PopCon.

Me on Hangin' With Web Show!


Tor.com stuff:

Star Trek Discovery reviews: "Perpetual Infinity," "Through the Valley of the Shadow," "Such Sweet Sorrow" Parts 1-2, and second season overview.

4-Color to 35-Millimeter: Man of Steel, Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, Suicide Squad, Wonder Woman, Justice League, Aquaman, Modesty Blaise and My Name is Modesty, Sin City, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, and The Losers.

Other stuff: all the callbacks to previous MCU movies in Avengers: Endgame, a guide to Star Trek Discovery's tie-in fiction, and did Avengers: Endgame assassinate the character of Steve Rogers?

Current Music: "Speedway at Nazareth" by Mark Knopfler
Current Mood: tired

Sorry for not updating in a while, but here's what's been happening since early January over on Word Press......

A new pinned post that lists some of the regularly updated guides on the blog, including my bibliography, the Cassie Zukav stories, the great superhero movie rewatch, and my Star Trek: Discovery reviews.

An excerpt from Release the Virgins!

It's official: I'll be back at Dragon Con in 2019!

Friday fanfare: "I Hate Myself for Loving You."

The good folks on Literary Treks discuss my Star Trek: I.K.S. Gorkon novel Enemy Territory.

Talking about Kagami Biraki, the new year's workout at the dojo.

Happy book birthday to the latest from my brother from another mother, David Mack: The Iron Codex.

Announcing the Kickstarter for Thrilling Adventure Yarns! Plus updates including the table of contents, an article on CBR about the anthology, an interview with editor Robert Greenberger on SciFi4Me, (This Kickstarter has since ended and was funded at almost 250% of its goal.)

I'm on "My Favorite Things" on the Speculative Chic blog.

My Farpoint 2019 schedule, with an update here. (This convention has already come and gone.)

Reprinting my review of BlacKkKlansman from Patreon in honor of that movie's several Academy Award nominations.

The compleat bibliography of Keith R.A. DeCandido.

From the archives: two Grits, on both movie adaptations of True Grit.

A video of Sir Jon reviewing the "Precinct" novels on Pint O' Comics.

The Bronx is a nifty place, or, how pictures can fool you.....

Literary Treks talks about me again, this time focusing on the Star Trek: Klingon Empire novel A Burning House.

A belated irons in the fire update for February.

Reprinting my review of First Man from Patreon, in part prompted by a discussion of the movie on Adam-Troy Castro's Facebook page (not to mention the approach of the 50th anniversary of the events described in the film).

An interview with me on Fast Forward from 2016 that finally goes live.

Another Kickstarter anthology: Across the Universe, alternate takes on the Beatles, with an update saying that it's been funded! (This one's still going on, so you can still pledge...)

I'm gonna be at Emerald City Comic-Con! (That convention has also come and gone.)

A listing of all the stuff I've posted to my Patreon since the start of the new year.

A nice review of my 2003 Star Trek: I.K.S. Gorkon novel Honor Bound.

I have autographed books for sale!

A nice review of my 2004 Star Trek novel A Time for War, a Time for Peace.


Mermaid Precinct stuff: front and back cover reveal, Amazon preorder information, an excerpt, Barnes & Noble preorder information, a post that includes all the preorder links, an excerpt, and the cover, an announcement that there were advance copies at Farpoint, and Publishers Weekly's review of the book.

A Furnace Sealed stuff: ordering links for the book, plus an excerpt, me discussing the book on John Scalzi's "The Big Idea" feature on his Whatever blog, some more ordering links, getting my author copies in the mail, an excerpt on Tor.com, and me discussing the book on Mary Robinette Kowal's "My Favorite Bit" feature on her blog.

Then both books: I talk about both Mermaid Precinct and A Furnace Sealed on Raymond Bolton's "The Write Stuff."


And my stuff for Tor.com:

"4-Color to 35-Millimeter: The Great Superhero Movie Rewatch": Thor: The Dark World, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Guardians of the Galaxy, Ant-Man, the 2014 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Darkness, Deadpool, Deadpool 2, 1990's The Flash, and Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.

Star Trek: Discovery reviews: "Brother," "New Eden," "Point of Light," "An Obol for Charon," "Saints of Imperfection," "The Sound of Thunder," "Light and Shadows," "If Memory Serves," "Project Daedalus," and "The Red Angel."

Other stuff: reviews of Marvel's The Punisher season 2 and The Umbrella Academy season 1.

Current Mood: busy
Current Music: "Oklahoma Hills" by Arlo Guthrie

Here's the latest from the other blog................


The latest stuff I've uploaded to Patreon.

Friday fanfare is "Back in the New York Groove."

A nifty sale on Amazon from eSpec Books: their backlist (including the "Precinct" books and Without a License) for only $.99 per book on Kindle.

Looking back on 2018.

Monday music is the very New Years Eve-appropriate "Midnight Hour," performed by Wilson Pickett, backed by Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band.

Midweek music is "Black Suits Comin' (Nod Ya Head)" by Will Smith from the Men in Black II soundtrack (arguably the only good thing to come out of that movie).

The release of Release the Virgins! Plus an excerpt from my story in the anthology, "The Midwinter of Our Discontent."

Some highlights from "4-Color to 35-Millimeter: The Great Superhero Movie Rewatch" over the past five months, plus also which entries got the most (and fewest) comments to date.

I have a frozen shoulder. Sigh.


And my stuff for Tor.com: the great superhero movie rewatch covers the Men in Black trilogy and Iron Man 3, plus I review the Short Treks episode "The Escape Artist."

Current Music: "Black Suits Comin' (Nod Ya Head)" by Will Smith
Current Mood: tired