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Review: The Dark Room holds long-buried secrets
Jonathan Moore’s The Dark Room starts like any number of Kathy Reichs’ Bones novels, with a team of detectives overseeing the exhumation of a grave as part of a criminal investigation. But it doesn’t take long—only a matter of pages—before the novel takes the first of many intriguing plot turns.…
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My writing life: 16 highlights from 2016
by G. Robert Frazier So, we’re two days into 2017 and I’ve had some time to reflect on 16 highlights from the past year. But don’t worry, I’m not counting anything politics related. I co-wrote a short script, “Blind Sighted,” with fellow Tennessee screenwriter Dustin Alexander III, which he later…
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Imagination has no boundaries on National Science Fiction Day
Today is National Science Fiction Day, created to honor the great Isaac Asimov on his birthday. Asimov created some of the most thought-provoking fiction with such classics as the iRobot and Foundation series. The best science fiction tales can make you wonder about your place in the universe.
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Around the Web: Top literary stories of the year, Wired goes sci-fi, and more
by G. Robert Frazier I often troll the Internet and my web feeds for interesting articles about writing and reading in my ever-going effort to increase my knowledge and skills. Because I’m such a swell guy, I also like to pass along some of my finds to you lucky readers…
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Review: R.G. Belsky scores a direct hit with Shooting for the Stars
by G. Robert Frazier One of the most common pieces of advice for authors is to write what you know. R.G. Belsky knows journalism. A former managing editor for NBCNews.com and the New York Daily News, Belsky has used that career of skill sets to create a thoroughly authentic investigative…
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Chabon: Embarrass yourself by asking parents, grandparents their stories
When you’re sitting around the Christmas tree with family this year, especially if you are lucky enough to still be in the presence of your grandparents or parents, you might want to take the opportunity to get to know more about them. And no, not just their political take on…
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NO WITNESS BUT THE MOON: Officer-involved shooting sparks tension
After a summer filled with racial tension over police shootings, it was only a matter of time before a novel surfaced with a similar theme. Suzanne Chazin presents that problem for her series character, Hispanic cop Jimmy Vega, in the first few pages of her new novel, No Witness but…
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BLACK WIDOW: Scottish crime master weaves a twisted psychological tale
Note to readers: Since writing this review, Black Widow by Christopher Brookmyre has been named crime novel of the year at the Theakston Old Peculier crime writing festival. Just when you think you’ve got things straight, Christopher Brookmyre throws you another curveball in his newest book, Black Widow. Brookmyre builds…
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Apex Magazine founder Jason Sizemore recounts zine’s origins, eyes future
The man who founded one of the top online magazines of dark science fiction, horror, and fantasy literature in the country didn’t set out to be an editor. But once he set his mind to it, nothing could seemingly stop him.
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Books: Longmire finds the obvious truth
An Obvious Fact, the 12th novel in Craig Johnson’s popular Longmire series, tries to throw a wrench in the works by moving the titular hero out of his natural element. But Walt Longmire is an element in himself, perfectly capable of functioning in any place and under any circumstance with…
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