TopShelf Magazine Holiday Edition

The Holiday Edition of TopShelf Magazine is live now.

The magazine also features a column of mine where I write about a Caballo de Troya, a novel by Spanish author J. J. Benitez.
You can read it here:  http://joom.ag/p2hL/p8

December edition of The Big Thrill

For the December edition of The Big Thrill I had the opportunity to write about Con Lehane's new mystery Murder in the Manuscript Room.



http://www.thebigthrill.org/2017/11/murder-in-the-manuscript-room-by-con-lehane/

October's column in TopShelf Magazine

The October edition of TopShelf Magazine features an article of mine about Mary Shelley´s Frankenstein.

Read it here:

http://joom.ag/tcyL/p8 

Which comes first, the reader or the story?

This week I´m participating along with authors Neil Placky and Steven Cooper discussing the subject of which comes first, the story or the reader.

Join us at the following link:

http://www.thebigthrill.org/2017/10/october-23-29-which-comes-first-the-reader-or-the-story/#comment-37732

007 and The Beatles, a love-hate relationship

Today I had the opportunity to write for The Spy Command about one of my favorite topics: James Bond.

 007's love-hate relationship with The Beatles

Although it’s hard to imagine now, there was a time when some people didn’t like the music from The Beatles. Back in 1964, the group was still a relatively new band that the teenagers went crazy over. In contrast, adults thought of The Beatles as a fad, as ephemeral as a lightening. Oh, and they also thought The Beatles made nothing but noise.

Continue reading at:
https://hmssweblog.wordpress.com/2017/10/09/007s-love-hate-relationship-with-the-beatles/

Writing about public speaking

They say the fear of speaking in public is only rivaled by the fear of death. I'm not sure if that´s true, but will admit that if feels true. I had a hard time overcoming my fear of public speaking and learned a few lessons on the way.

Today I was a guest at Julie Lomoe´s blog where I discuss that very topic.

http://creativecrone.net/2017/09/25/guest-blogger-j-h-bogran-fear-public-speaking/

Feel free to visit and leave comments.

New Forgotten Tomes column in TopShelf Magazine

Literally meeting Bond by J. H. Bográn

It’s dark times for fans of the most enduring movie franchise of all time. Much like 2016 was the “Year without the Doctor” for fans of Doctor Who, the James Bond fans have seen nothing since 2015´s Spectre, and plans for a new movie are in the pre-production limbo, a most fearsome place to be, once that has claimed Bond for up to six years—from License to Kill (1987) to Goldeneye (1995). This has left fans with not much choice but dusting off the old DVD or newer Blue-Ray copies of the previous 24 movies. I’m here to offer another lifeline, one that perhaps has already occurred to some, but not to all fans: Get to meet James Bond, literally, by reading the books. You can start with Ian Flemming’s, then carry on to recent authors like Raymond Benson and Jeffery Deaver.

Continue reading here: http://joom.ag/l5zL/p6