Writer Tamago

My friend Mark posts his thoughts about our recent trip to Universal Studios, and I think he does a very complete job reviewing our trip. A couple of weeks ago, Ferrett also weighed in on the HP part of Islands of Adventure. And Julia Rios talks about Disney briefly as she journeys through California. *** [...]

As a companion article to yesterday's review, here's Jim's answers to a few questions. * Tamago: In what ways do the characters of Roudette and Talia compliment or echo each other, if you think they do at all? Jim: Roudette is definitely a foil to Talia. In many ways, Roudette is who Talia could have [...]

It's no secret that I've sung Jim C. Hines' praises before on this site. Last year when we were lucky enough to have Jim as our author GOH at Icon, I went so far in a book group discussion to call Jim's Goblin series an every man novel. No, I'm not going to 'splain that [...]

Traffic in Tamago-land slows to near crawl as author goes on vacation, and doesn't write anything new for about a week. So... next up, a write-up on Jim C. Hines' book Red Hood's Revenge, followed shortly by an interview with the author. After that, a report on why Universal is not Disney, but how it [...]

AnimeIowa went very well. I did a presentation with Bryon on Horror Anime before 2000. Maybe the scariest thing about the presentation was how hack-y Go Nagai's 1970s Devilman was. We also did some cultural work, hosting a Japanese shrine and tea party Friday night. The convention was great. it was a good chance to [...]