by J. Ashley-Smith I moved to Australia in the early 2000s, just after I turned thirty. It was a turning point in my life as significant and mind-blowing as the birth of our first child a few years later. The landscape just sucked me in, that vastness, its untameable nature. That wild heart, and the Read More …
Picture me in a rocking chair in the attic, sipping tea from a cracked mug, surrounded by decrepit mannequins with spider clusters for eyes. Shadows jig merrily on the walls. As I sip the ectoplasmic tea, I experience the memories of ghosts, but I won’t let that distract me. I have a job to do. Read More …
By Eugen Bacon I came across an exhilarating guest post idea on an author series, and thought, ‘Just wow.’ If I took a random page of my novel with Andrew Hook, Secondhand Daylight, would it render justice to the overall storyline? I’ve always liked odd numbers, so my eye fell on p.43, and I thought, Read More …
I loved “Cloud Cuckoo Land” by Anthony Doerr! This book is like a puzzle box that you are dying to solve, with a cast of characters that will steal your heart and a plot that that is rich, complex and beautifully interwoven. It is a tale of survival and hope in the face of impossible Read More …
I am resistant to the idea that a writer’s work must be autobiographical in some way, that their characters and stories are conduits for the author’s personality or desires rather than invented fiction. Amidst the excitement of promoting my newest book, I must admit to some dread that I’ll get questions asking me if I’ve Read More …
As a huge fan of An Unkindness of Ghosts, I was very excited to dig into this one by the same author, Rivers Solomon. This one was immediately addictive with a main character, Vern, who escapes a cult-like community into the woods to have and raise her babies. There was so much to love in Read More …
By Steve Simpson Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try. —Homer Simpson I don’t find writing clearly easy, so I invented these self-serving reasons to do the opposite. Impenetrable words allow the reader to focus on the prosody This applies to poetry and prose. Here is an example Read More …
Let’s start by saying, Kathe Koja’s Dark Factory is a fun read! The ultimate dance club where the next step in AR/VR technology, called “Y,” allows clubgoers to customize the experience. Put that tiara on and go wild. I loved the characters in this book, and there were a lot of them, but I felt Read More …
The Twilight Zone meets Promising Young Woman in Giving the Devil His Due, The Pixel Project’s first charity anthology under their Read For Pixels program which has been published in partnership with Running Wild Press on September 1st, 2021. 100% of the net proceeds from the sales of the anthology will go towards supporting The Pixel Project’s anti-violence against women Read More …
Eugen Bacon Bacon’s new book Mage of Fools just released and I asked her a few questions: If you had the opportunity to live anywhere in the world for a year while writing a book that took place in that same setting, where would you choose? EB: I recently had a writer’s residency on a Read More …