by Joseph Malik | Feb 2, 2020 | General
Radcon this year is my busiest schedule at any con I’ve done, yet. As you can see below, several of these panels are geared toward me in particular, and several more are geared toward my particular areas of expertise as an author, adventurer, martial artist,...
by Joseph Malik | Apr 29, 2016 | Dragon's Trail, Worldbuilding
So I have a fight scene early-on which covers four pages, though the action itself is two sentences long. Thirty words. Harold lunged. Jarrod exploded forward in a whirl of flashing steel, and Harold crumpled and spilled into a knee-deep puddle, pleading his surrender...
by Joseph Malik | Sep 27, 2015 | Worldbuilding
I’ve been gone for a while. Sorry about that. But hey, duty calls. I saw this today. And it made me want to write, which is always a good thing. Apparently, this is happening. Because Russia: This is fantastic. Especially the shield-bashing, the kicks, the...
by Joseph Malik | May 24, 2013 | Worldbuilding
I shoot a 55-lb. handmade recurve. I bowhunt, traditional style, spot-and-stalk and stillhunting. The single thing that I see in books and movies time and again that drives me absolutely nuts, and which I haven’t seen addressed anywhere — which is why...
