Author: Patrick S. Tomlinson

Orson Scott Card and Cognitive Dissonance, revisited

So Orson Scott Card is in the news again, this time because his most famous work, Ender’s Game, is finally coming to a theater near you. As happened a few months ago when D.C. tapped Mr. Card to write a Superman Issue, calls for a boycott have started to ring out from pro-equality and LGTB […]

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On Hecklers

I’m taking a moment here to change topics from writing books to writing and performing comedy. As many of you know, for the last year or so I’ve been practicing my stand-up chops in the Milwaukee and Madison area. There have been some high-profile incidents over the last few years with comedians trying to deal […]

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Origins 2013 After Action Report

As many of you know, this last weekend I spent in lovely downtown Columbus Ohio at Origins Game Fair, (while a pride festival was also going on, making for interesting people watching, but I digress). This was my first year at Origins, and I must say it was rather fantastic. For the uninitiated, Origins is […]

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A Completely Unbiased, Spoiler-Free review of Star Trek: Into Darkness

Here’s my review of the new Star Trek movie: It was awesome. Just pure, unadulterated awesome sucked up into a syringe and injected right between your toes. I’m assigning J.J. Abrams as the beneficiary of my 401k in the event that my little heart gives out when I go to see it again, like tomorrow. […]

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News and Such

Afternoon all! A few things to cover in today’s update. First of all, I was fortunate enough to be last week’s guest on Dungeon Crawlers Radio. If you missed it, you can find a recording here. I come in around the fifteen minute mark, and if you keep listening, you get a bonus interview with […]

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I’m On Your Radio, Coruptin’ your Youths.

Head’s up. I’ll be a guest on Dungeon Crawler’s Radio this coming Monday, April 29th at 7:00 pm EST. We’ll be talking about, among other things, The Wererat’s Tale III, Sidekicks, my attempts at stand-up comedy, and whatever embarrassing stories Tracy can come up with. Listen in!

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For Boston

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A Little Housekeeping…

With everything else going on around here, I’ve completely forgotten to do my publishing updates! First of all, The Wererat’s Tale: The Collar of Perdition is now available in both trade paperback and eBook formats. Early reviewers have called it the best of the series so far.  I’ll leave that to the reader, but it […]

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Show, Don’t Tell.

Hello all. I’m having a tough time getting this chapter going today, so I thought I’d get the juices rolling by listening to myself talk about writing and hope someone out in the aether benefits from the bolivating. Earlier today, I had a phone chat with another writer just getting rolling on his first novel. […]

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Happy Birthday, Douglas Adams.

Today we mark the coming of a truly formidable mind. As certainly all of you know, Douglas Adams was a novelist, satirist, screen-write, and I’m told quite the MMA fighter (I made that last one up). His seminal series, A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, is a must-read classic of both the humor and sci-fi […]

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