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howard tayler writer illustrator consumer skip to content howard tayler search primary menu blog discussion policy bibliography projects upcoming events contact search for i m howard like most people i do a lot of different things i do some of them for money this site is where you ll be able to find all of them and it s the only home for some of them i m probably best known for schlock mercenary the online comic space opera that i created back in 2000 and which updated every day from june 2000 to july 2020 at schlockmercenary com the comic strip is still what currently feeds our family and that s awesome cover art by jeff zugale related to that back in 2015 i joined forces with alan bahr and with sandra tayler s expert help we launched a kickstarter for the planet mercenary role playing game the project was very involved involving several artists three editors and numerous play testers and it took just over two years to complete i didn t do any of the illustration but i wrote a couple hundred thousand words it shipped during the summer of 2017 you might have heard my voice on writing excuses the weekly podcast for genre fiction writers that i co founded with brandon sanderson and dan wells we launched that back in 2008 and it updates weekly at writingexcuses com we re in our 20th season now and the current hosts are mary robinette kowal erin roberts dong won song and me in 2020 i contracted covid 19 and ended up with long covid which manifests as chronic fatigue as a relatively new member of the walks with a stick club i m a passionate advocate for disability awareness and accessibility initiatives i currently work from a zero gravity recliner using a surface pro with a big tv as my 2nd monitor the tablet and many many other tools is mounted on a boom so my workstation looks kind of sci fi ish also i taught my stick how to carry my phone so my phone could teach me not to leave home without my stick from time to time i review movies and tv and i m horribly biased if you want to know whether i had fun at the cinema you can follow my reviews at this site clicking on the movie review tag or that link looking for my prose my bibliography has the full list or at least it will eventually most recently my short story an honest death appears in shadows beneath the writing excuses anthology i ve also done novelettes novellas shorts and even flash pieces for skull island expeditions a privateer press imprint if you like lovecraftian horror my work has also appeared in space eldritch and space eldritch ii the haunted stars on the side for no pay whatsoever i paint 28mm miniatures experiment with food and crash in front of the occasional video game over the years my list of favorites has grown to include skyrim eso xcom fallout 4 ark survival evolved valheim outer worlds and pokémon go i also write a lot usually it s skeets howardtayler bsky social or community posts on discord hypernode connect discord server but sometimes i blog about stuff old school i remember when blogging was the new thing yes this site is the best place to start for finding that stuff or links to that stuff some of it will probably embarrass me my opinions and my politics have changed significantly in the last 25 years but there s no point in trying to hide who i was you can see my clumsy efforts at cartooning in the early archives of schlock mercenary and some pretty wrong headed stances in the archived blog posts here on the completely non embarrassing front i m the very happy husband to sandra tayler and we re the parents of four i am a member of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints i m also cat owner and a home owner though it can be argued that the cats own the house paperwork notwithstanding but who am i really beyond the things i make and the people i love and the cats who demand my fealty beyond the physical features and the conglomeration of organic molecules i ve bound up in my almost sixty year quest to forestall entropy who am i photo by vladimir chopine ca 2016 seriously how can i answer that look the best i can do is say that i have been all of the howards who wrote these journal entries and each of them was a stage along the long transformative path to the me of the now and i m just the latest stage if you want to read the blog and meet all those other guys be my guest be warned though they re not me and neither is the guy who wrote this recent posts retrospective sketchbook now we get printed in color june 1 2026 retrospective sketchbook two weeks to go may 19 2026 we all have rawwrs together february 21 2026 howard reviews beverly hills cop axel f july 5 2024 years ago while trying to explain that a bad remake does not ruin your childhood i described modern remakes as attempts to make money by strip mining nostalgia and before i explain the metaphor further let me clearly state that beverly hills cop axel f is a much much better movie than that strip mining is how soul december 27 2020 i loved soul loved it the mythos was fun the music was amazing and the story had more heart in it more truth in it than anything in recent memory as an added bonus if you like jazz this movie has some amazing things to offer it s easily worth a disney subscription easily yes it has death wonder woman 1984 december 26 2020 the up front summary i enjoyed wonder woman 1984 but i was disappointed i don t regret signing up for hbomax¹ because ww84 was worth the 15 cheaper and safer than going to the theater but i really do wish the film had been y know better the good there were lots of fun moments in the film tenet december 19 2020 tenet is one of those films like the sixth sense in which any review of the film must dance around the fact that it s very very difficult to say much about it especially in any sort of critical examination without spoiling something so let me just say this before saying anything else i enjoyed it i really let s review some movies december 19 2020 it s been a while i know i haven t been to the theater since february and i suppose i could describe my spring summer and fall to you but all three of them were mightily 2020 d so let s just give that a miss will i make it back to a movie theater anytime soon i doubt the latest schlock mercenary retrospective sketchbook now we get printed in color june 1 2026 the retrospective sketchbook project has just three days to go on kickstarter over the weekend we cleared the number of books threshold that enables us to do offset printing instead of print on demand and with offset we can get color pages without breaking our budget the project closes on thursday june 4th at 2pm eastern the retrospective sketchbook two weeks to go may 19 2026 i think i ll take up doodling as a hobby i said that to sandra twenty six years ago in march of 2000 less than four months later i d launched schlock mercenary online my writing decent if perhaps a bit dad jokey my art was really really rough¹ we re doing a book about this you can back the the most recent writing excuses 21 26 setting the pace june 28 2026 our hosts explore the many tools writers can use to control pacing we discuss how cadence transitions tone sentence structure and white space can all speed up or slow down a reader s experience and remember fast is not inherently better than slow this conversation highlights the importance of contrast pairing fast and slow moments tension and 21 25 follow the bouncing ball june 21 2026 in this episode our hosts explore how writers control their readers attention with the metaphor of a bouncing ball we break down techniques for guiding focus on the page including pov choice selective description rhythm and where details appear within sentences and paragraphs the discussion highlights how structure often matters more than individual word choice tags book review challenge coins comics biz conventions cover design events faith fan art game review gencon indy health and fitness hobby painting home family humor kickstarter 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