Larry Atchley, Jr.

So I’m behind on posting about FenCon which was the weekend of February 23rd to 25th. I absolutely love attending fan conventions, especially as a guest panelist where I get to interact with fe...

https://larryatchleyjr.wordpress.com/2024/04/02/fencon-ntab-and-howard-days/

I’m reblogging this post by Scott Oden whose blog I have followed for many years. It has some great information and insight into Scott’s writing process and what it takes to write stories in ...

https://larryatchleyjr.wordpress.com/2021/08/03/pastiche-a-retrospective-by-author-scott-oden/

https://igg.me/at/the-ghost-lights/emal/1775509 My friend Tim Stevens has created a crowdfunding effort to help him with post production costs for his first feature film. He is working to try to ...

https://larryatchleyjr.wordpress.com/2021/03/05/the-ghost-lights/

“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.” -H.P. Lovecraft So it has been a long time since I have written and po...

https://larryatchleyjr.wordpress.com/2021/02/28/publishing-pirate-poetry-in-a-perilous-pandemic/

Author Scott Oden reveals how his Conan pastiche writing influences his original character stories, and what sets the two apart from each other. The Thread Between Conan and Grimnir (Tip o’ the...

https://larryatchleyjr.wordpress.com/2020/08/05/from-pastiche-to-original/

The next post in Scott Oden’s series on writing Robert E. Howard pastiche using his iconic character, Conan of Cimmeria. Please subscribe to his blog, it’s interesting and informative. And bu...

https://larryatchleyjr.wordpress.com/2020/07/26/anatomy-of-a-pastiche-part-three/

Part 2 in author Scott Oden’s series of posts about writing Robert E. Howard pastiche stories. Read Part One here. This is a long post, so grab a frosty beverage and buckle in. So, we’re skip...

https://larryatchleyjr.wordpress.com/2020/07/22/anatomy-of-a-pastiche-part-two/

I’m sharing another of Scott Oden’s posts in his continuing series on how to write Robert E. Howard pastiche with his most iconic  character, Conan of Cimmeria. Here Scott pulls back the vei...

https://larryatchleyjr.wordpress.com/2020/07/17/anatomy-of-a-pastiche-part-one/

I’m sharing this post from friend and fellow author Scott Oden’s blog on writing in the style of Robert E. Howard. Please subscribe to Scott’s blog and buy his books. He writes some excelle...

https://larryatchleyjr.wordpress.com/2020/07/09/the-art-of-pastiche/

I will be a guest author panelist at the first ever FrogCon at TCU in Fort Worth, TX this Saturday, February 22nd. FrogCon is a popular culture convention hosted by the TCU Library focusing on �...

https://larryatchleyjr.wordpress.com/2020/02/22/frogcon-2020/