http://www.steffmetal.com the alternative blogazine of heavy metal fashion, lifestyle and kvlture Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:52:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://www.steffmetal.com/holy-shit-guys-problogger/ http://www.steffmetal.com/holy-shit-guys-problogger/#comments Tue, 24 May 2011 06:59:52 +0000 steff http://steffmetal.com/?p=3833 You may not know, or care, but sometimes I’m off other places, writing about stuff that’s not metal. One such article, Curing the Dreaded Blogger’s Malaise, appeared on Problogger today. Its inspiration hearkens back to the Black Death week earlier this year, and offers a few tips for what to do if you’re uninspired while [...]

]]> http://www.steffmetal.com/holy-shit-guys-problogger/feed/ 10 http://www.steffmetal.com/linking-horn-holy-shit-guys-april/ http://www.steffmetal.com/linking-horn-holy-shit-guys-april/#comments Tue, 29 Mar 2011 04:49:05 +0000 steff http://steffmetal.com/?p=3646 Where has the year GONE? I have done NOTHING. NOTHING AT ALL. (Well, no, that’s not really true …) This week, I finally finished the draft of my latest novel, which has been handed over to the editing department (my husband, who is as cruel as he is gorgeous) before it goes out to my [...]

]]> http://www.steffmetal.com/linking-horn-holy-shit-guys-april/feed/ 4 http://www.steffmetal.com/eulogy-miniscope/ http://www.steffmetal.com/eulogy-miniscope/#comments Thu, 16 Dec 2010 05:31:00 +0000 steff http://steffmetal.com/?p=3183 I wrote this silly article – Eulogy to my Miniscope – as part of a disability blogging competition. For those of you who don’t know, a miniscope is a little monocular (like binoculars, but only one lens) that a lot of vision impaired people, like me, use for seeing things far away. It looks like [...]

]]> http://www.steffmetal.com/eulogy-miniscope/feed/ 1 http://www.steffmetal.com/announcing-grymmandepiccom-website/ http://www.steffmetal.com/announcing-grymmandepiccom-website/#comments Tue, 07 Dec 2010 07:42:20 +0000 steff http://steffmetal.com/?p=3149 In my infinite wisdom (since I sooooo don’t have enough to do already) I’ve launched a new website. It’s Grymm & Epic.com – kick-ass solutions for creative businesses. basically, it’s a blog about running a small business, designed with creatives in mind. Musicians, artists, writers, performers, designers … and anyone else wanting to make their [...]

]]> http://www.steffmetal.com/announcing-grymmandepiccom-website/feed/ 1 http://www.steffmetal.com/green-on-grey-achromatopsia-colum/ http://www.steffmetal.com/green-on-grey-achromatopsia-colum/#comments Thu, 18 Nov 2010 06:54:59 +0000 steff http://steffmetal.com/?p=3075 If any of you have ever wondered about achromatopsia – the rare genetic eye condition I have that renders me completely color-blind, light sensitive, and legally-blind, you might want to check out my new bi-monthly column Green on a Grey World: Musings on Life with Achromatopsia over at Achromatopsia.info, an initiative of the Low Vision [...]

]]> http://www.steffmetal.com/green-on-grey-achromatopsia-colum/feed/ 6 http://www.steffmetal.com/metal-history-runes/ http://www.steffmetal.com/metal-history-runes/#comments Wed, 12 May 2010 05:17:12 +0000 steff http://steffmetal.com/?p=1709 Continuing Folk Metal week into it’s second week (thus making it Folk Metal Fortnight – ah, aliteration), I thought I’d talk about those stick letters adorning the cover of every folk metal album – runes. Prior to the adoption of the Latin alphabet – along with everything else Christian – in around AD 700 – [...]

]]> http://www.steffmetal.com/metal-history-runes/feed/ 2 http://www.steffmetal.com/starting-blog-tips/ http://www.steffmetal.com/starting-blog-tips/#comments Wed, 21 Apr 2010 09:56:12 +0000 steff http://steffmetal.com/?p=370 Dear Steff Metal I’ve been reading your blog for a few months now. It’s very different to the other blogs I read - totally inspiring! I’m a visual artist, and I’m thinking of starting a blog to help promote my work (I have an Etsy store but no website as yet). But I don’t want to [...]

]]> http://www.steffmetal.com/starting-blog-tips/feed/ 3 http://www.steffmetal.com/annoucing-launch-grymm-epic-ebooks/ http://www.steffmetal.com/annoucing-launch-grymm-epic-ebooks/#comments Sun, 18 Apr 2010 23:44:47 +0000 steff http://steffmetal.com/?p=1550 I am so excited to tell you about my ebook project! Grymm & Epic ebooks is my line of ebooks about the heavy metal life. They are like my blog posts, but much, much longer. I wanted a way to talk in-depth about topics I’m passionate about, and since I’ve already written five ebooks, the [...]

]]> http://www.steffmetal.com/annoucing-launch-grymm-epic-ebooks/feed/ 0 http://www.steffmetal.com/heavy-metal-phrasebook/ http://www.steffmetal.com/heavy-metal-phrasebook/#comments Tue, 06 Apr 2010 05:15:58 +0000 steff http://steffmetal.com/?p=219 A few years ago, I wrote a novel about the heavy metal apocalypse. I won’t say any more about that, except it was quite brilliantly funny, set in New Zealand, and completly un-appetizing to publishers. At the back of the book, I wrote a glossary of common metal terms, for the uninitiated reader. Since the [...]

]]> http://www.steffmetal.com/heavy-metal-phrasebook/feed/ 9 http://www.steffmetal.com/become-a-writer-heavy-metal-way/ http://www.steffmetal.com/become-a-writer-heavy-metal-way/#comments Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:17:50 +0000 steff http://steffmetal.com/?p=274 Dear Steff Metal I always wanted to be a writer, but I don’t know where to begin. I’m in my third year of an English major at college and I don’t have anything to show for it except for some better-than-average marks and several short stories the school Lit magazine won’t touch with a ten-foot [...]

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