Ricky Lee Grove

Thank you for visiting my website. You'll find information about me and my activities/social media here. If you came here looking for the actor Richard Grove, you've found him. For some crazy reason, I chose to use Richard as my first name while working as an actor in Hollywood. I have a separate post devoted to Richard Grove's acting career.  At present, I am producing a podcast about paperbacks called "The Paperback Show", along with participating in a podcast about machinima (3D movies made inside of video games) called, "And Now For Something Completely Machinima".  I am also an online bookseller at eBay and Etsy under the "Grove Used Books" name. In addition to books, I also sell collectibles, DVDs, and comic books.  Lastly, I have social media pages on Instagram and Facebook. My Flickr page contains all of my found photographs and photos I've taken over the years.  You'll find more detailed info on each of these activities in sepa...

Mayflower 563 11640 X (1973) It’s a shame that this British Mayflower paperback doesn’t list the cover artist because he/she deserves to be credited for creating this dramatic, surrealist cover that fits Michael Moorcock ’s story perfectly. Mayflower reprinted many of Moorcock’s books in paperback, including several of his most popular books, like Stormbringer , Behold the Man (a fantastic book), and The Final Programme . Mayflower states that the book is “ Science Fantasy ,” which I think describes Moorcock’s work very well, although he leans toward the grimdark style of writing that is directly opposite of Tolkien’s “high fantasy” (he hated Tolkien’s work, by the way). From the blurb on the back of the book (which deserves to be quoted for its over-the-top style : “ The world is sick. The Forces of Chaos have energized the planet. Leaders, fuhrers, duces, prophets, visionaries, gurus, and politicians are all at each other’s throats. And Chaos leers over the broken body of the Order...

The female private investigator in the mystery genre dates back to  Victorian fiction and has  evolved through various waves of genre, social changes, and feminist influence. As early as the 1850s–60s, real women worked as detectives in Britain and America’s private agencies, inspiring cross-dressing and tough-minded heroines in stage plays and penny fiction. Victorian fiction highlighted both working-class and upper-class women in detective roles. However, the image was often sensationalized—a mix of reality and fantasy with heroines who handled undercover work and societal suspicion. In the 1920s–30s “ Golden Age ,” series like Patricia Wentworth’s Miss Maud Silver and Hulbert Footner’s Madame Rosika Storey established the professional, resourceful female sleuth in both English and American settings. These characters moved from amateur “ladies’ detectives” to competent, economically active investigators or “private enquiry agents,” setting the stage for the modern PI protago...

  As a reader of paperbacks, I sometimes read more Young Adult (YA) novels than I do the so-called “Adult” ones. In my opinion, YA editors often do a better job than their peers in the mainstream adult publishing industry. The YA novel is often shorter, more precise, and honestly, more fun to read. There’s no better example of this idea than  Joseph  Delaney’s   Spook series . It’s called the “Last Apprentice” series in the USA because of the negative connotations of the word “ spook ”. I get that, but I don’t think the word is as troubling as the publishers do, so I will refer to these books as the “Spook’s Apprentice” series. This series is about Tom Ward, a farmer’s boy who is the seventh son of a seventh son, which makes him special. His mother (a mysterious woman at first) urges her farmer husband to apprentice him to John Gregory , the local spook. A spook is someone who investigates and removes my sterious paranormal events/beings like ghosts, ghasts, and bo...

  Nightmare Puppeteer is a movie-making application created by "M" in the Unity Game Engine . It's a strange machine that encourages randomness and absurdity. Much like the Dada Movement during the first part of the 20th century.  Warning: lots of scatalogical speech and bizarre images. NSFW Link:  https://www.youtube.com/@uberector