My New Website, The Ultra Project, Is Live!

On September 13, 2024 By Ryan HarveyIn AnnouncementsLeave a comment

A piece of news I’ve been sitting on for the last monthly during quiet preparation: I’ve launched a new website as a companion piece to this one, The Ultra Project. The site is dedicated to exploring the Ultra series, a long-running Japanese live-action special effects (tokusatsu) franchise. You may be familiar with it’s most famous figure — the giant silver-and-red alien hero Ultraman. In this website, I’ll move through the many different shows that make up the series, taking them on one episode review at a time. As a bonus, I’ll include some side-trips to other monster movies, both Japanese and elsewhere in the world

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I’m Writing the Introduction to a Clark Ashton Smith Collection

On August 31, 2024 By Ryan HarveyIn Announcements, my nonfictionLeave a comment

Well, it has been a couple of years, hasn’t it? I haven’t put up a post here since the publication of Turn Over the Moon (purchase here). There are many reasons for this long stretch of silence, main among them some long post-pandemic recovery. Maybe I’ll address all this at some point once I figure out what different direction I want to take this website.

The reason I’ve come back is to announce that I’m writing the introduction to an upcoming collection of the stories of Clark Ashton Smith, one of my favorite authors. The introduction is for a Brazilian publisher, Editora Clock Tower, which specializes in collections of Portuguese translations of classic weird tale writers like H. P. Lovecraft, Arthur Machen, and Algernon Blackwood. The publishers approached me several months ago to see if I was interested in writing the intro to Os Habitantes do Abismo (The Dwellers in the Gulf, based on the CAS story title “The Dweller in the Gulf”), which collects Smith’s Martian stories along with two other science-fiction works. I was happy to say “yes,” and a few weeks ago the editor informed me that the collection had met and exceeded its crowdsourcing goals. I’m working on writing the introduction now; I’ll post updates on when the collection will be available.

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Turn Over the Moon Is Now on Sale!

On November 1, 2020March 21, 2021 By Ryan HarveyIn Announcements, my fiction

It’s finally arrived: Turn Over the Moon, the first novel of the Saga of the Sorrowless, is now available for purchase at Amazon in paperback and Kindle editions.

This has been an exciting journey, and I’m thrilled at last to share this story with the world. If you enjoy the novel, please consider leaving a review on Amazon, which helps immensely in increasing the book’s visibility!

Kickstarter for Turn Over the Moon Is Finished: Thank You Everyone!

On October 31, 2020 By Ryan HarveyIn Announcements, my fiction

The Kickstarter campaign for my novel Turn Over the Moon concluded this morning, with a total of $2,187 raised, twice our original goal! Thank you to everyone who contributed. I’m incredibly grateful to see this level of support.

Because we reached the $2,000 stretch goal, all the backers will be listed in the book. I have to make the changes to the files, and then the novel will be ready for its publishing debut. All backers will receive their copies and other rewards during November. We’ll keep everyone up to date.

Nonfiction Update: I’ve Got a New Home

On October 23, 2020 By Ryan HarveyIn Announcements, my nonfiction

In September I announced that the Perilous Worlds project was done, and all my posts for them had vanished (temporarily) into the ether. I also hinted that our blogging crew might emerge at another website, and now it’s happened: I’m blogging as part of the web-presence for the magazine Tales From the Magician’s Skull at the Goodman Games website. I already had a relationship with Magician’s Skull because my friend Howard Andrew Jones edits it and my story “Dead Queen’s Triumph” appeared in the April issue.

My first article at Goodman Games is already live, a Halloween-themed look at the “weird menace” pulps and Robert E. Howard’s brief foray into this gory and bizarre corner of pulp history. This was one of the articles I had written for Perilous Worlds that dropped into limbo before it could be published, so I’m happy to see it crawl up from the lower depths to plague the world this October with grotesque mad science and deformity.

I believe some of my articles previously published at Perilous Worlds will resurface at Goodman Games, so I’m going to hold off on my earlier plans to post them on this blog. The future for this project is still coming into focus, but I’m glad to have a new home for my nonfiction.