Or, this soapbox is not big enough for the both of us There are three different people involved in any given story at any given time. There is the writer,…Continue readingAuthor vs Character
With my first time travel novel, AbductiCon, now out, the following story quite naturally caught my eye. And maybe someday, someone will want to make a movie out of it.…Continue readingIs now the time?
Jennifer Schaffer of BuzzFeed has selected some of the most beautiful sentences in literature (below), and that made somebody ask me about what I like in my own works. I…Continue readingWhat do YOU like?
Famous authors at work on ancient devices Tom Hanks loves typewriters, as he made clear when he co-developed an app that emulates the experience of writing with them. He’s been…Continue readingA typewriter?!?
behance.vo.llnwd.net Where the Wild Things Are A 2-part jack o’lantern of a beloved children’s book. (Carved by Maniac Pumpkin Carvers) 18 Literary Pumpkins for creative carvers Celebrate Halloween and literature…Continue readingA Bookish Halloween
Photo illustration by Juliana Jiménez Jaramillo Is an All-Female Mission to Mars the best way to go? Medical studies at the start of the space race showed that women have…Continue readingWomen on Mars?
Many years ago, I went to visit the grave of J. R. R. Tolkien in Wolvercote Cemetery in Oxford. It took some finding in amogst the sea of…Continue readingFamous Last Words
The Bedroom Quirks of 10 Great Authors You know that Shakespeare, James Joyce and Lord Byron were geniuses when it came to their ways with words, but as anyone who…Continue readingBedroom Quirks