A marvelous writer, Steven Barnes, recently wrote about a book that changed his life, and that inspired me to do the same. But I can’t possibly pick just one, I…Continue readingLife-changing books
Taking her with me into the shadows of my dreams While I was updating my Le Guin collection with the Hainish books I lacked, in preparation for my Big Re-Read…Continue readingRe-reading Ursula
Okay so I saw a bunch of trailers for this movie – but that was an under-the-radar kind of thing, I looked because it had “Book Club” in the title,…Continue readingSometimes it takes a Book Club…
…there is soot So, I was downstairs in the office working on my latest book while hubs was upstairs, making baked potatoes for supper. Often when I’m writing, I am…Continue readingWhere there’s smoke…
I have read thousands of novels, but only a bare handful I can call perfect — books I love with a pure and undying passion, to which I return, over…Continue readingAnatomy of a perfect book
Despite the warnings, I never got lost in ‘The Infinity War’ I was warned that walking into ‘Avengers: The Infinity War’ without screeds of background was going to be a…Continue readingThe Superhero Rapture
10 authorial confessions 1. There are times that I have sat and watched words which I am typing appear on the screen in front of my eyes… and not recognized…Continue readingThe Possessed Author
More than a decade after my most popular book, ‘The Secrets of Jin-shei’, was published, it keeps cropping up here and there – sometimes in a new form (an ebook…Continue readingWhen a Novel Came to Tea
Connor McSheffrey@mcsheffrey at Unsplash As all poets understand, the core of what makes us human isn’t a static thing. We’re on a journey – some say it’s from the moment…Continue readingRUMInations 3 – The eternal journey