It’s official, The Silver Key is coming out of retirement. “Rising
from Ruins,” to quote the great Judas Priest.
So where have I been the last six years?
Still reading, still writing. Still thinking about
sword-and-sorcery. Still enjoying heavy metal. In short, still living the
dream.
There were a few reasons why I stopped writing this blog. I
was burning the proverbial candle on both ends, with too many competing
responsibilities. Maintaining the blog started to feel like a chore. Along with
every other adult on the planet I have many obligations, mainly related to a
full-time job, my home, and other responsibilities. Writing for a personal,
unpaid, bit of electronic real estate of ruminations on fantasy books and music
should not become weekly content churning. It started to feel that way toward
the end.
I have not vanished from writing. Former Cimmerian site
editor Deuce Richardson had managed to rope me into a few posts over at DMR
Blog (publisher of the awesome Swords of Steel, among other sword-and-sorcery
related fiction). Here’s
a link to one of them here. I wrote a review for Skelos.
But principally I have been working on a book-length
non-fiction project, one that has consumed most of my free writing time over
the last 4-5 years. The principal writing is complete and I hope to have it
published. I will explain in some upcoming posts.
If you enjoyed the material I posted here from roughly
2007-2013, I plan to bring more of the same. It may be weeks or longer in
between posts. But I do feel the urge to do some writing again, and this will
be the space. Although I’m on Facebook that’s not an option for my ramblings. Too
many cat pics and kids’ sporting activities to compete with. I debated blowing this
blog up and starting fresh somewhere else, but I think some of my old posts are
OK reading. So I’m dusting off the older Blogger site and opening up shop a
second time.
I hope this is not a false start. I don’t intend it to be.
