Joanne Harris, author of Chocolat, has always been my hero, now more than ever since she led the charge against the The Clean Reader, an app which enabled customers to…Continue reading‘Victory for dirt’
At MindBodyGreen, Lisa Westmoreland has offered us 10 Ways To Declutter Your Home (And Life!) She lost me at #4 where says that if you don’t read a book right…Continue readingDon’t touch my books!
There is a bookstore in Novi Sad, the city in which I was born – a place that smelled of books, and of yellowing paper, and of aging book binding…Continue readingGerman Indians
I was nineteen years old and a ‘seasoned’ writer who had written between three and six novels, depending on whether you counted only the ‘good’ ones or everything, when I…Continue readingGoodbye — and Thank You
In Flavorwire, Emily Temple tells us that TV tends to refer to refer to literature to make just about anything a little more highbrow, and adds that “nothing’s more fun…Continue readingTV meets Literature
There is a new world out there, a vivid and complex world full of Were creatures and normal humans living in an uneasy alliance. It’s where my new series, The…Continue readingThe Random World
Business of Ferrets – Image credit: Michael Lyons 50 Collective Nouns to Bolster Your Vocabulary Collective nouns may seem like quirky ways to describe groups, Lucas Reilly writes at Mental…Continue readingWorship of Writers
From time immemorial, men have been wondering about, and trying to understand, just what it is that “women want”. And yet, when they’re told… there’s a chorus of anguish, angst,…Continue readingWhat do women want?
I am primarily a fantasy writer. That is how I view myself and my novels. But literary critics often have trouble labeling me, putting my books into neat little boxes.…Continue readingBut what is it?
“Jay Lake was an acclaimed short story writer. In his all too brief career he published more than three hundred works of short fiction. In “Last Plane to Heaven” we…Continue readingJay Lake’s legacy