How many of us of a similiar age shared key influences forming our tastes—and for that matter what can be considered key? In the New York Review of Science Fiction, in 1991, editor and genre raconteur … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: March 2013
A short post this week as I’m working on two major projects which will be announced next week. Watch this space. And look at those lambs… This was one of the fastest lambings ever – with all four ewes lambing … Continue reading
Partnership Needed: Every Author is in Want of a Good Audiobook Narrator Please welcome Leah Frederick to the blog today. Leah is the narrator for my first released audiobook The Unintended Bride. [I know, I know, why am I doing them … Continue reading
By Brenda Clough I am writing a time travel novel. A very complicated subject, with a considerable literary history! In an effort to organize my unlucky characters’ thinking on it, I began to draft a Taxonomy, illustrated by examples that with … Continue reading
I’m a cat person. I’ve had a number of cats over the years, with my favorite being the one in the picture, Mahasamatman, the Lord of Light, commonly known as Sam. He’s been gone for about 15 years — about … Continue reading
WWW Wednesday. This meme is from shouldbereading. To play along, just answer the following three (3) questions… • What are you currently reading? • What did you recently finish reading? • What do you think you’ll read next? Little finishing, … Continue reading
With the release of THE LAST JEDI, came a minor explosion of requests for interviews. Michael can only do written ones these days since losing his voice, but he does them via keyboard. Even our editor—Shelly Shapiro (aka She Whom … Continue reading
Book View Café is pleased to present Taminy, by Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff. They said Taminy-a-Cuinn was a sorceress, and that she drowned in the Meri’s Sea seeking a station denied her by tradition and nature. One hundred years have passed … Continue reading
You’re writing climax of your book. Your protagonist is facing insurmountable odds or an unsolvable problem. You already know how the protagonist will win through in the end, and he’ll do it by confronting one of his basic flaws. You’re … Continue reading
The argument for real books against virtual books is often based on the thingness of the real book — the beauty of the binding, the pleasure of handsome design and typesetting, the sensuality of turning a paper page, the pride … Continue reading