Billy Bobble is, according to Mellette, targeted at the entire family. We were invited to interview him earlier this year as part of the pre-release promotional campaign for the book but schedules got in the way, excuses presented themselves, and we dropped the ball. Sorry, Robert. Still, you can now read Part One of "An Interview with Robert Mellette" on Xenite.Org and Part Two of "An Interview with Robert Mellette" on SF-Fandom.
Why did we split up the interview into two parts? First, because it was pretty long (and those are always the best kinds of interviews, dontcha think?). Second, because we could not agree on whether it should be published on Xenite.Org because of the Xena connection or on SF-Fandom because that is where most of our new promotional campaigns for authors and film-makers are launched. So I finally decided we would split the article between the two sites. Everyone seems happy with that arrangement, including Robert, who left comments on both articles (thank you, Robert).Robert is, by the way, also an independent film-maker, heavily involved with the Dances With Films festival. If you are interested in making independent films you'll want to check out these interviews because we tried to cover everything: Billy Bobble, Xena, and independent films. The guy is just a fascinating person to get to know. We hope we can do some more interviews with him in the future.
In other news from the Xenite/SF-Fandom network, I managed to see "The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies" despite not feeling well. I wrote a review for the movie on the Middle-earth blog (Cf. "Kingdoms are Won in the Battle of the Five Armies") and another, briefer review for the SF-Fandom forums (I tried to cover differ points in both reviews). Although I liked this movie much better than the last one, opinions remain divided over which is the better movie. For a more firm opinion, from someone who knows Tolkien's books very well, read David Bratman's review of the movie (it's not favorable, so you have been warned).
People don't need to fight over the movies. Some folks will like them and some folks will not. We should all be able to get along nonetheless.
Speaking of J.R.R. Tolkien and Middle-earth, people have been after me for a long time to write another book. I didn't want to just republish blog articles so I finally made some time to write a new book. This one is experimental because I published it through Amazon Kindle (maybe not the best choice of program, but we'll see). I didn't have the patience to try to find a traditional publisher; their process for vetting books, especially related to Tolkien (there is a LOT of litigation in that area), is just too time-consuming for me. So I put together 22,000 words of original thinking.Mindfaring through Middle-earth takes you on a journey that, hopefully, helps you see Middle-earth quite differently (but in an enjoyable way) from the way you are accustomed to seeing it. This is not an attempt to debunk someone else's thinking. It's just a way of browsing through the landscape of Middle-earth in a semi-fictional state of mind. The book is only $2.99 and it's free for Kindle Unlimited customers. I would like to publish more like this, although that will depend on sales. And I may change to a different publishing resource.
But please read it and if you like it please review it.
Finally, I wanted to shout out to my friend the Texican at Communizine, which is one of our Websites. He is a great film buff and he has taken Communizine under his wing for the past few years. He found a classic movie, "His Girl Friday", had fallen into the public domain years ago. Well, read the article and watch the film online at Communizine.
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