“Wang Dang Doodle,” a short story I wrote, is set in the 1980s Chicago blues scene and appeared originally in Challenger 36, edited by Guy and Rosy Lillian. WANG DANG DOODLE Kent McDaniel Joe glanced at Robert and Lori feeding crickets to the tarantula in the dry aquarium. Lori, who was nineteen, […]
Read moreFROM OUTRE' 4: 3 POEMS, 1 ILLO, 1 VIGNETTE
May 15, 2013 
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Reblogged from kentmcdanielwrites: The other day I ran across a copy of Outre #4 , a SF fanzine I published in 1969 for the Southern Fandom Press Alliance (SFPA). Took me back, allright. The cover is by Glen Brock, who was also in SFPA at the time, and I think it’s pretty cool Sixties fanzine art. A lot of […]
Read moreArtist Robert E. Gilbert (REG)
May 6, 2013 1 Comment
Robert E. Gilbert, who signed his work REG, was arguably the most prolific and popular illustrator of SF fanzines in the 1960s. His covers and interior illos were nearly ubiquitous, particularly in midwestern and southern zines. They appeared everywhere from popular regional zines like Iscariot, Maelstrom, and Double Bill to Hugo-nominated zines like Yandro and […]
Read moreReview from Midwest Book Review
May 2, 2013 0 Comments
Midwest Book Review recently printed a a short (but kind) review of my novel, Jimmy Stu Lives!. It reads as follows: Jimmy Stu Lives! Kent McDaniel Penumbra Publishing $9.99, http://www.amazon.com The words of faith are easy to skew to corruption. Jimmy Stu Lives! is a novel following a twenty-first century preacher who awakens in the […]
Read moreSelf-publishing an e-Book
April 19, 2013 0 Comments
I’ve always been leery of self-publishing. For one thing, I dislike the idea of paying someone to publish my work. I feel it should be the other way around. Besides which, I know that the vast majority–and I mean vast–of self-published books sell almost nothing. Maybe a couple hundred copies if the writer’s lucky. When […]
Read moreRecording He Flies
April 16, 2013 4 Comments
I’m posting an audio recording here of my song “He Flies,” but I wanted to talk about recording it, which was really enjoyable, and most of which I did at home. First, back in our den, I recorded the rhythm tracks on my venerable Tascam, an eight track digital recorder, pretty much an anachronism these […]
Read moreHaunted
March 5, 2013 0 Comments
I’ve enjoyed reading fantasy fiction since I was a pre-teen, but I’d never before delved into paranormal romance fiction. A review of Ophelia’s Julien’s Haunted made it sound interesting, though, and having recently read my first romance fiction, I figured I might as well take the plunge, and I downloaded Haunted. Which turned out to […]
Read moreGary’s Top Comic Books (of 2012)
March 1, 2013 0 Comments
The following post is by Gary Brown and is reprinted from his zine, Oblio. Each year I take some time to look back on the previous 12 months and pontificate on what I think were the best dozen comic books of that period. As in the past, I remind my readers that these are MY […]
Read moreThe Law and Annabelle
February 22, 2013 0 Comments
I suspect that I’m not exactly in the traditional target audience for romance fiction, but the blurb for The Law and Annabelle by L. K. Campbell did get my attention: the book sounded like an amalgam of western, romance fiction, and murder mystery. I thought, man, if you threw in some aliens or time travelers, […]
Read moreReview from Revenant #75
February 16, 2013 2 Comments
Jimmy Stu Lives! by Kent McDaniel begins with a pastor who has lost his faith after losing his wife but is still trying to continue to lead his church. He has the advantage and disadvantage of being surrounded by people who believe in him and trust him. In his despair, the Reverend James Stuart Sloan […]
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