I'm being interviewed by the amazing Donna Hole

Hello and good Tuesday morning to all of you. Today I’ve got a guest post and a review of my book up at Donna Hole’s blog<<<CLICK. Please go and visit if you don’t already follow Donna. She’s amazing. I also talk about my writing. Today, I’m going to share one of my deepest fears: What … Read more

An intro to character using only dialogue

Today is the second day of the I’m Hearing Voices blogfest. We are supposed to use only dialogue, but I couldn’t figure out how to do that. So I hope mostly dialogue works. Anyway, here’s my less than 250-word attempt at it: “Sorry.  So, why does warm water freeze faster than cold?” Brianna asked him. … Read more

The Wisdom or Madness of Haruki Murakami

I just finished book one of Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84 (he was a contender for the Nobel Prize in literature in 2011). I’m really enjoying this science-fiction novel (a big one when you consider that there are three books in one and thus over 1000 pages total), even though the “science-fiction” aspect of it seems to … Read more

A Discussion About Dystopia

This book by Martin Cruz Smith is the latest in his Russian-themed novels. The plot is pretty simple. A girl on a train has her baby kidnapped and then finds her baby by the end of the book. I didn’t read this book for the plot. I read it because I was so horrified by … Read more