Release date August 25th, 2026. Order your copies now! I am happy to announce that my 5th novel, Smitty’s Guide to Interstellar Bartending, will be released by Misti Media’s SciFi/Fantasy imprint Nazca Press on August 25th, 2026. Print copies can be preordered now via nazcapress.com/product/smitty/NP/52. Smitty is an itinerant bartender,…
Month: July 2026
HRH The Rider – A Review
A cracking yarn. Essay. 800 words, 4-minute read. HRH The Rider – A Review By Ray Tabler Edgar Rice Burroughs was nothing if not entertaining, and frighteningly prolific. He published 91 novels and numerous short stories throughout his career, eventually running his own press, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. Burroughs was…
Booze and History
Cheers! Essay. 700 words, 4-minute read By Ray Tabler People who know much more about the subject than I do, and have looked into the matter than I have, determined that large, stone troughs at the Göbekli Tepe archeological site were used to brew beer. Now, there’s a load of…
The Sharpest Blade
Reading is fundamental. Essay. 700 words, 4-minute read. The Sharpest Blade By Ray Tabler Recently, I attended a talk by novelist Jessica G. Guerrieri, about her books Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, and Both Can Be True. One of the themes in her work is the effect…