Down a Street That Wasn’t There by Marie Brennan Step beyond the ordinary . . . Beneath the surface of our reality lies a world of magic and danger — a world where buildings have guardian spirits, shapeshifting coyotes prey … Continue reading
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Looking back on all the blather I’ve produced in this blog space over the past year, I realize I am compiling a “CliffNotes” version of novel research. It occurs to me that I should cite my sources—most of which originate … Continue reading
Down a Street That Wasn’t There by Marie Brennan Step beyond the ordinary . . . Beneath the surface of our reality lies a world of magic and danger — a world where buildings have guardian spirits, shapeshifting coyotes prey … Continue reading
Night Calls Katharine Eliska Kimbriel “When you have the Gift, your life is not your own.” I was born to a family that harnessed the winds and could read futures in fire and water. Yet my mother kept her secrets. … Continue reading
I sometimes joke that my work is fiction — “I make it all up” — but that isn’t true. All writers draw to some extent on our own experiences and environments, not to mention what we’ve studied, heard about from … Continue reading
If I’m known for anything as a writer, it’s dark, unusual fiction. I like to read and write stories about strange things happening in the woods or in odd locations. Stories about people yearning for something and getting it, only … Continue reading
Recently, I read two novels that left me chewing over the issue of story size. The two novels were Love On The Run by Katharine Kerr and A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness. Both were absorbing, with characters I … Continue reading
A TASTE OF THE NIGHTLIFE Vampire Chef #1 by Sarah Zettel By the time I hailed a gypsy cab to get back to Nightlife, the sun was well up and the city was wearing her gaudy daytime face. I felt … Continue reading