BJ Swann | Swann + Bedlam

Book Review BleakWarrior by Alistair Rennie

In a weird and decadent world, superhuman beings known as Meta-Warriors are compelled to seek out and destroy each other without truly...

Don’t of the day: The overuse of Participles

Don’t of the day: The overuse of Participles The overuse of participles is a plague in contemporary writing. Sure, participles are good...

Book Review: The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie

μέγα βιβλίον μέγα κακόν – Callimachus I managed to slog my way through about a quarter of this tome before giving up from a sense of...

Book Review: The Road by Cormac McCarthy

What follows is a fictional interview with McCarthy and an imaginary journalist encapsulating my thoughts on this vacuous, over-hyped...

The Facebook Author Phenomenon: A Cautionary Essay

B.J’s Bile In this series of essays, B.J. Swann spews out hatred and gives you the straight dope on everything that sucks about the...

Don’t of the Day: Infodumping

Don’t of the Day: Infodumping In this series of articles, Swann and Bedlam share advice on things authors shouldn’t do One of the worst...

Wet Bones | John Shirley

A genuine splatterpunk classic that blows most other horror books out of the water. Tom Prentice has to identify the strangely emaciated...