Book Review | Earth Awakens (The First Formic War #3) by Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston

While the continued existence of the human race in Ender’s Game provides a serious spoiler as to how the prequel First Formic War trilogy must end, I still enjoy the closing action in Earth Awakens as the story moves to its inevitable conclusion.  Even if the following review makes it sound like I’m weary of […]

Book Review | Earth Afire by Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston (The First Formic War #2)

One of the most interesting things about the First Formic War trilogy is that if you’ve read Ender’s Game, then you already have some idea of what’s going to happen.  Most of the references to this war in that book hint at a desperate struggle with horrifying losses.  Earth Unaware begins that story out in […]

Book Review | Earth Unaware by Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston (The First Formic War)

Throughout the Ender series, various characters make references to the two previous alien invasions many decades earlier.  While some of the events of the second war become a key plot point in Ender’s Game, the first war is only touched on very lightly.  I always wanted to know more about the back story, especially the […]

At SL Comic Con: Balancing a writing career while keeping your day job

In addition to a fantastic venue for people watching and celebrity sighting, Salt Lake Comic Con hosts some excellent panels on writing, providing ample opportunity for the novice writer to meet, and learn from, local authors. A panel I attended this afternoon, on the second day of the Salt Lake Comic Con, was titled “Managing […]

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