Worlds of Paul Jessup

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Read this. I’d have to say, kudos to Matt for being honest.  But also shame on whoever egged him into posting that. It seems that some people are under this misguided notion that if you do something as a job (such as PR for authors) you don’t actually enjoy them or doing or there work.  [...]

So, yeah.  The last Doctor Who episode.  Damn.  I’m not sure which way they’ll go yet- but hell, I’m surprised this was kept a secret and nobody leaked it.  I hope they don’t hit a lame o reset switch.  RTD uses this a little too much (esp with some sort of baloney psychic explanation involved) [...]

Turn up the volume and click on the link, for I am interviewed by the always awesome Matt Staggs. This is the first of many podcasts from Enter the Octopus. We talk about my novel coming out next year, Star Wars and David Lynch. Enjoy, enjoy, enjoy!

So, being the vain and ego maniacal man that I am, I regularly do a google blog search on myself.  Today I found a cool short fiction review site called ShortBits, doing reviews of some of my short stories.  I’d never heard of this site before, and after traversing around and reading some reviews, I [...]

ShortBits has an excellent review up of my Fantasy Magazine short story, A Word Without Ghosts.
Wendy wakes up in an abandoned train station, guarded by a bear who might also be the ghost of her dead brother Peter and maybe also something else. Outside, they’re besieged by a horde of birds. When Wendy is kidnapped [...]

ShortBits reviewed my Clarkesworld story, The Secret in the House of Smiles, giving it a really nice review.
Alice hunts quantum vampires while her friend Jack, a dime store magician, tries to glue together a mysterious girl from various magazine clippings. Can he fix a magic trick gone wrong long ago?
Paul Jessup wrote a a great [...]

Everyone that’s into fantasy dark and awesome should check out Matt Stagg’s web blog.  And add it to your RSS feed or whatever, because it has frequent updates which are made of awesome, and an amazing book link roundup that is the best group of daily links EVER.  Seriously.  This is awesome.

This book is beautiful. I love getting collector’s editions of books, they remind me what treasures books can be.  This has a wonderful dust jacket, a really cool looking sign in sheet, excellent layout and design and printed on quality paper that will last generations.  Collectors editions of books really enforce the idea of book [...]

Because, really, this list of top 10 fantasy movies is a joke. A really, really bad joke. It must be. They can’t be serious.  Well, to prove my point here is what I consider to be the top 10 fantasy movies of all time.  And if you disagree, feel free to post in [...]

I usually work on my writing projects in one of two ways- I jump right in or I plan ahead. When I jump right in I usually just get a good first sentence in a story and then move out from there, the story writing itself from that point onward. These stories a [...]