Tag: Books
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Reading and Writing Around the Web for 7/25: The Amazon edition
It seems like everyone wants a piece of Amazon. Or at least to blame Amazon for their writerly woes. The Interweb is full of articles bemoaning Amazon’s Kindle author pay policy, customer review policy, and more. Here’s just a few articles I came across recently: The Authors Guild is urging…
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Reading and Writing for the Web 7/22
Every day I scour the web for articles on reading and writing to further my education about my craft and try to share the best of those articles with you here. Today, I thought I’d focus on reading. One of the most common, reiterated pieces of advice for writers of…
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Reading and Writing Around the Web for 7/21
Has this ever happened to you? Today I had as many as 16 tabs open on my computer at the same time in my web browser, and, naturally, the browser crashed. Fortunately, when you reopen the browser there’s a neat little tool called Recent Tabs that, once you click on…
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Review: Action heroine peels back secrets, kicks ass in The Mask
Taylor Stevens has created a tough, intelligent action hero in the character of Vanessa Michael Munroe, one in whom many readers will want to spend time with. Munroe’s sharp wit, keen mind, and physical abilities are all evident in Stevens’ new novel, The Mask ($24, Crown Publishers). All of Munroe’s…
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Barnes & Noble shares bag of literary goodness
I guess I’m a little late to the party, but I just noticed something very cool courtesy of my latest visit to Barnes & Noble. After leaving with a couple of new books to read (Batman: Arkham Knight-The Riddler’s Gambit by Alex Irvine and The Mammoth Book of Sherlock Holmes Abroad,…
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Book review: Sci-fi premise of The Fold fizzles into horror movie mayhem
I don’t read a lot of sci-fi, but The Fold by Peter Clines looked like an interesting read, and it was – though not in the way I expected. The novel details a unique program in which scientists have created a new mode of transportation, dubbed the Albuquerque Door, in…
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Paperbacks edge out hardcovers for readability, collectability
I’ve previously written about my preference for reading print books over digital books, but it occurs to me that I also prefer paperback books over hardcover books. First, there is the matter of price. Paperbacks are less expensive, which means I can buy more paperbacks, which means I have more to read.…
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Review: ‘Unknown Sender’ builds suspense in tight 23 pages
“Unknown Sender” by Ryan Lanz starts as a somewhat predictable tale of a young college student haunted by a series of text messages from an anonymous source. The texter seems to know everything about our protagonist, Jessica, from the clothes she’s wearing to what she’s doing at a specific moment.…
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Review: What You Left Behind sometimes thrills, sometimes frustrates
Just when you think you’ve got a handle on events in What You Left Behind, the new novel by Samantha Hayes, she throws you a curve. That’s normally a good thing in a mystery-suspense novel. The twists and turns should be enough to keep readers glued to the pages, but…
Story By G. Robert Frazier 