Your Favorite New Show

Posted by Jerry Gordon in Blog

It doesn’t get more underground than this.  Demo footage for a proposed pilot.  I pass it along because it’s got style to burn.  Think of a 60’s version of Ocean’s Eleven…that’s 2260’s!  Hints of Firefly and Cowboy Bebop abound.  Take a look and let Mike know what you think.  Show

Dark Faith Cover and Table of Contents

Posted by Jerry Gordon in Dark Faith

There are still a few contractual t’s to cross and i’s to dot, but here is the final cover and table of contents for Dark Faith:
Drumroll…  

Dark Faith – May 2010 (Apex Books)
“The Story of Belief-Non” by Linda D. Addison (poem)
“Ghosts of New York” by Jennifer Pelland
“I Sing a New Psalm” by

Death By Slush

Posted by Jerry Gordon in Blog

Rumors of my “death by slush” are greatly exaggerated. Sure, I was trapped under an avalanche of submissions for the anthology.  And yes, I did technically stop breathing (and posting) for a while, but rumors of an undead editor roaming from house to house to eat the flesh off the

Final Drafts

Posted by Jerry Gordon in Blog, Severed Dreams, Work In Progress

The draft of Severed Dreams has emerged from its second round of writing group critiques (insert awe inspiring music here).  While the group was pouring over the novel, I brought in a few unconventional readers to give me an opinion on a very specific question.
The novel was always intended to be

When Genres Collide

Posted by Jerry Gordon in Blog

The final frontier of space has always had a natural metaphor in the American West. Whether it’s wagon train to the stars (Star Trek) or the post civil war frontier (Firefly), the space western has been a staple of modern pop science fiction. This marriage, while a little long in

Dances with Na'vi

Posted by Jerry Gordon in Blog, Reviews

I got a nudge from a friend at Fox followed by an invitation to see about twenty minutes of James Cameron’s new movie, Avatar.  The footage, I had been told, was revolutionary.  The movie represented a quantum leap in visual effects.  The hyperbole wasn’t coming from the studio.  It was coming

Because we ventured out of the cave and made fire…

Posted by Jerry Gordon in Blog

William Bradford, speaking in 1630 of the founding of the Plymouth Bay Colony, said that all great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and both must be enterprised and overcome with answerable courage.
If this capsule history of our progress teaches us anything, it is that man, in his

APEX Magazine Returns

Posted by Jerry Gordon in Blog

I’m a big fan of stubborn determination and great fiction, so it’s nice to see both coming together in a new issue of Apex Magazine.  After moving the magazine from print to the web, Jason Sizemore put it on temporary hiatus.  The break turned out to be a short one and the magazine

Dark Faith Anthology

Posted by Jerry Gordon in Dark Faith

I’ve accepted an offer to edit a pro-rate anthology with Maurice Broaddus for Apex Books.  Dark Faith will be released in the summer of 2010.  As co-editor, I’ll primarily handle unsolicited manuscripts.
The guiding principle of the anthology will be the themes of Mo*Con. The annual writers conference revolves around discussions of

Midnight Diner

Posted by Jerry Gordon in News

The “Back from the Dead” edition of Coach’s Midnight Diner is now available from Amazon.  Alongside fiction from Kim Paffenroth and Bob Freeman, you’ll find my future take on the 9th Ward of New Orleans.
The story, written weeks after Hurricane Katrina nearly destroyed the city, follows a young man struggling