F. Scot Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda battled depression and led lives that eventually spun out of their control. They weren’t the only writers on that list, Cody Delistraty writes…Continue readingWhy are writers depressed?
The Last 13 Feminist Bookstores in the U.S. and Canada In the mid-1990s, there were approximately 120 feminist bookstores in the U.S. and several in Canada, Anjali Enjeti reports at…Continue readingOnly 13 left?
Elmore Leonard had ten rules for writing. 1) Never open a book with the weather. 2) Avoid prologues. 3) Never use a verb other than “said” to carry dialogue. 4)…Continue readingThe rules, the rules!
Every week, 2 anonymous students sneak into a classroom and proceed to blow everyone’s mind. DangerDust At the Columbus College of Art and Design, two rogue college students are creating…Continue readingAstounding graffiti
“The 100 Most Important Cat Pictures Of All Time” OK, this is it, Jack Shepherd of BuzzFeed says. This is the one. We can all finally shut down and go…Continue readingBest 100 cats?
…or just a writer? Five signs you might be one or the other. by Jill Nagel Is your roommate a little skittish around you? Jill Nagel asks at Fresh Print…Continue readingAre you a serial killer?
From filmmaker Jason Silva video The Biological Advantage of Being Awestruck According to a study by Stanford psychology students, Trinica Sampson reports at Utne, experiencing a sense of awe can…Continue readingOn Being Awestruck
One of my stories, ‘Leaving Via Callia‘, has been posted at Splinter Universe, where “Sharon Lee & Steve Miller present rare genre moments for readers looking for a fiction fix.”…Continue readingThe splintered universe
11 Untranslatable Words From Other Cultures There are words and concepts that cannot be easily explained across cultures, Ella Frances Sanders, “Illustrator in Residence”, tells us, and gives us several…Continue readingHow do you say…?
Random, the first book in my The Were Chronicles series, is now available for pre-order from the publisher, Dark Quest Books. The cover shown here is not the final one…Continue readingWhat if you were a Were?