Monthly Archives: May 2011

Monsters, Women, and Other Strange Creatures

By A. Lee Martinez | Published: May 30, 2011

Maybe it’s because I’m just as likely to have a robot or weird monster from dimension X as a human playing the hero in my novels, but I tend not to relate to stories solely by the race or gender of their protagonists. I’ve had a good mix of male and female, human and inhuman [...]

Posted in Blog | Tagged Backlash, Bridesmaids, Chick Flick, Cool Dude, Cthulhu, Diehard Fans, Dimension X, Female Character, Female Role Model, Game Action, Indiana Jones, Lara Croft, Metroid, Metroid Game, Minority Characters, Protagonist, Protagonists, Punches, Strange Creatures, Target Audience | 5 Comments

Chasing Zany

By A. Lee Martinez | Published: May 18, 2011

Did you ever notice that nuclear bombs are either destroying the planet or saving it? I watched a movie called Crack in the World recently, and a bomb starts a chain reaction that causes a (SPOILER ALERT) crack in the world. It’s only by exploding a bigger bomb that they can stop it from tearing [...]

Posted in Blog, Writing | Tagged Albatross, Assumption, Backseat, Blogging, Bomb, Brain Candy, Card Games, Chain Reaction, Chasing The Moon, Comic Books, Crack, Curse, Dinosaurs, Ego, Fluff, Nuclear Bombs, Rewarding Experience, Robots, Self Improvement, Spoiler | 5 Comments

Q & A Time

By A. Lee Martinez | Published: May 5, 2011

Bob Bob had a few questions concerning my last post about Chasing the Moon. I thought about answering them by replying to comment itself, but then figured it might be better to answer them in their own featured post. Bob Bob asks: What inspired a) a Lovecraftian story, b) about the nihilism and absurdities of [...]

Posted in Blog, Writing | Tagged Absurdities Of Life, Absurdity, Bob Bob, Chasing The Moon, Contradiction, Eighth Novel, Human Beings, Human Perception, Incomprehensible, Insignificance, Monster, Monsters, Natural Progression, Nihilism, Powerlessness, Protagonist, Strange Concepts, Time And Space, Time Bob, Universal Theme | 3 Comments

End of the World (and I feel fine-ish)

By A. Lee Martinez | Published: May 5, 2011

Chasing the Moon, my 8th novel, comes out this month, and in the interest of self-promotion, I suppose I should talk about it. The first thing that keeps popping in my head is that I’d like to say this isn’t a “funny” novel. Except it is. I’m sure everyone who likes it will tell me [...]