It started as a childhood game of make-believe. I’d go into the forest near my family home (usually in the rain) and would make up an ongoing story for myself involving a sprawling epic of adventure and magic in worlds of my own imagination. The Read More …
It’s Christmas time, and that means that the Schopfer home is filled with the signs of the season. A tree that has taken over the living room, holiday music echoes from several rooms at once, and every evening there are showings of all our favorite Read More …
Autumn has always been a special time for me. Living in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, I’m surrounded by green for the majority of the year. I love the coolness of green, but for one month there’s an explosion of different colors around my home. Reds, Read More …
Last weekend, I went to the Rose City Comic Con in Portland, Oregon as a vendor to sell my books and some related merchandise. This was by far my biggest event yet, with tens of thousands of attendees and hundreds of competing vendors. I did Read More …
It’s been over ten years since I first started writing my series about the adventures of a professional monster hunter. With the recent release of The Hunter’s Apprentice as the fourth installment in the series, I thought I’d take a little time to reflect on Read More …
I recently finished reading all six volumes of the collected Hellboy library editions as well as the complete Hellboy in Hell compilation, and as a longtime fan of the character and this series, I have come to a difficult conclusion: Mike Mignola is a terrible Read More …
One of the best known tips for writers is to be well-read. This has been said hundreds of ways by hundreds of authors, poets, and lecturers. Perhaps one of the best known variants comes from Stephen King: ““If you don’t have time to read, you Read More …
Book reviews are the lifeblood of online sales. Without reviews, there’s nothing to separate one independently published title from the millions of other books available to new readers. It requires no extra cost, takes less than five minutes, and will have a lasting positive effect Read More …
Everyone loves getting something right the first time. Like cruising through a series of green lights all in a row, a steady momentum built on repeated success is an intoxicating sensation. There’s also a different–but just as satisfying–feeling that comes from accomplishing something that took Read More …
It had been a dream of mine for years. I’d watch YouTube videos, thinking of my abilities as a writer as well as my theater experience and time in film school, and I’d think: yeah, I could do that. Turns out, it was hard. Really Read More …
