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About Shedrick

I am a professional librarian and a part-time writer that's working to do that the other way around. I currently live in North Texas in the lovely city of Denton (“The Home of Happiness“) with my lovely wife and the obligatory demon-spawn cats. When not writing, gaming, or watching cheezy kung-fu flicks, I can sometimes be found in a pub (or the American equivalent) enjoying a fine brew.

Another Award!

This past November I entered one of my flash fiction pieces, “Gift of the Magi“, into the annual Spec the Halls contest. Well…I just heard back from the contest organizer and it is official…my story won third place! So, coming … Continue reading

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Review: Have Glyphs Will Travel (The Merkabah Rider v.3) by Edward Erdelac

Merkabah Rider: Have Glyphs Will Travel by Edward M. Erdelac (2011) : ISBN 9781615725526 (Damnation Books) Last year I reviewed the previous two entries in this weird-west series, Tales of a High Planes Drifter and The Mensch With No Name. In fact, … Continue reading

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Great–Now I’m Hungry for SOPA-PIPAs….

Okay, so I totally stole that joke from the internetz. It’s still funny. But if the legislation that is being proposed right now actually becomes law, I could be declared a dirty internet pirate whore for posting this. Not my … Continue reading

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Top Distractions of 2011

So, with 2011 skulking out the side entrance and 2012 boldly stepping forward, we here at the Serial Distractions Monkey Lubrication Depot and Tobacconist Shoppe™ look back at the various books we reviewed last year that still stand out as … Continue reading

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2011 in review

So, with a new year budding it comes that time where we look back at the previous annum to assess. WordPress provided me a pretty swanky report what this blog did in the past year. Feel free to take a … Continue reading

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