I am thrilled to have a guest post by Seb Doubinsky, author of Missing Signal, which I consider a literary dystopian novel that happens to have aliens (!!). If George Orwell, Franz Kafka & Philip K. Dick had a book baby…well…you get the picture. It is a quick, fast-paced page turner with brilliant writing on Read More …
I listened to the audio version of this masterfully written, haunting, and powerful novel. Sing, Unburied, Sing – the story, its characters, the atrocities of Mississipi’s Parchman prison – will stay with me forever. I can’t remember a more powerful image than that of the final scene in the book. For audio listeners, the narration Read More …
Already a huge fan of Andy Weir’s The Martian, I jumped at the chance to read an advance review copy of his upcoming novel, Artemis. At a glance, this is a story of Jazz, a tough, funny, resourceful young lady who has grown up in Artemis, a city on the moon. She makes ends meet Read More …
This illustration was for a short story by Thomas I. Benton called, “The Resurrection.”
I joined my first book club recently. Or maybe it is better described as a wine club where we sometimes talk about books. (But not always.) The founder set us up on a little website and we even have a name: We Like Big Books and We Cannot Lie. It is a very fun group. Read More …
I received a book from Amazon last night (a real one that you hold in your hands?!?!) and immediately fell in love. (Again.) Since it is an awesome resource for writers, I will share it here: Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction – by Jeff Vandermeer So to give you some background, I Read More …
My first was back in eighty-five. I was married–a new mother at that. Ironically, my husband introduced us. It was raw, intoxicating, overwhelming. We shared stolen moments; stolen thoughts. I saw color in a world that had been black and white. It wasn’t the reason my marriage fell apart, but it certainly contributed. In ninety-two, newly Read More …