I discovered very quickly that the Pentax 645 was much easier to use than the Hasselblad 500c. I ...

'You've never been here before?' Wanekia asked.'No,' Chloe said. 'Your father won't fly. He never...

It's been a rough road and other clichés, but Phenomenal Stories is back yet again to provide sui...

Just how many magazines can we create based upon the simple concept of a modern-day speculative f...

Shawn M. Tomlinson set out to be a rock star. He wrote his first lyrics at age 14 and they were s...

This issue of Phenomenal Stories Quarterly welcomes new Editor Richard H. Nilsen and includes Phe...

Whew! The anniversary issue of Phenomenal Stories hit the stands right on time. Didn't seem like ...

'It's gonna be fun,' Martin said.'You always say that,' Jerry said.'Almost always is.''Almost nev...

Phenomenal Stories #09 features the classic story, 'The Dark Eidolon' by one of the Weird Tales '...

Phenomenal Stories #07 features the first part of the new serial, 'Time: Book 01: Timenami,' whic...

In 'Getting Started in Photography,' Photographer and writer Shawn M. Tomlinson creates a quick g...

Tales of horror fiction with wit and humor.Well, a bit.That sums up the stories in this collectio...

Baby and HPL have become significant parts of our lives.They both bring a great deal of love and ...

There's a rose garden in Central Park.No, not that Central Park. The other one, in Schenectady, t...

Welcome to the new sister magazine to Phenomenal Stories, Preternatural Tales.Here we've got new ...

Phenomenal Stories magazine defies the odds and celebrates a year in print with this the Septembe...

I seem to be writing a lot of books lately.I guess it is because I did not have the opportunity t...

Photographer and writer Shawn M. Tomlinson, author of the Photo Curmudgeon column and books, expl...

Photographer and writer Shawn M. Tomlinson, author of the Photo Curmudgeon column and books, expl...

Sometime in 2015, I got the idea through conversations with my friend and photographic colleague,...

Be wary, ye whoÉ Sorry. Just wanted to warn you up front that some of these stories donÕt have co...

'The Pig Abides' is an older children's book designed to amuse both children and adults. It follo...

Photographer and writer Shawn M. Tomlinson, author of the Photo Curmudgeon column and books, expl...

In this volume of the Shawn M. Tomlinson Guide to Photography Series, Tomlinson takes an in-depth...

Outside was crazy.The thick, coming storm weighed me down. It could come any minute: thunderous, ...

In the Realm of the King is volume four of my complete shorter fiction collection. It contains so...

In this expanded edition of 'Photography: The Workhorse DSLR: Revisiting the Canon EOS 20D,' phot...

When Canon entered the digital professional photographymarket, the Powers That Be decided they wo...

In the ninth volume of Shawn M. Tomlinson's Guide to Photography, the author finally gets around ...

We press on with the second volume of Phenomenal Stories Quarterly, a collection of the first thr...

Shawn M. Tomlinson, with the help of fellow photographer Gary W. Ziroli, reconsiders the camera b...

A lot has changed since I wrote and published this first volume of what became this guide series....

You've done it!You've finished your novel (or memoir, or how-to, or poetry collection, etc.).Sit ...

The author takes a look at the reasons to buy a second digital single-lens reflex camera body and...

Photography has gone through at least seven revolutions since it began. Each one has occurred at ...

'Now, what are you guys doing here?' Martin asked. 'Not that it isn't great to see you, but it us...

It has taken me 37 years to write this biography of author Robert W.Chambers.Along the way, I wro...

Film is back! And about time, too. We just were getting a little too comfortable with the idea of...

Robert W. Chambers: Maker of Moons: Author of The King in Yellow Unmasked traces the history of t...

Photographer and writer Shawn M. Tomlinson, author of the Photo Curmudgeon column and books, make...

The Nikon D70 was Nikon's third revolution just in the digitalphotography age. (Never mind the ma...

Film cameras - the bodies themselves - have little to do with image quality. Lenses are far more ...

Phenomenal Stories #08 features the origin story, 'Secrets,' and continuing the theme, we present...

You've heard about the wonders of the professional digital single-lens reflex cameras, how they h...

The Hitchhiker in Time columns were the single most popular things ever written by Shawn M. Tomli...

Brightly Bill and Dull Timothy were pig brothers, and pig brothers sticktogether, no matter what ...

This third volume of tales by Shawn M. Tomlinson collects all of the cyberpunk stories the author...

One Sunday morning in August 2014, I was looking at maps and Google satellite images of the gener...