Tag: Fiction
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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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Drunks, rapists, incompetent basketball coaches: an excerpt
“You have any enemies?” Chief Gray asked. “None that ever wanted to dump a body on my lawn,” Kramer said, his gaze drifting to a framed photograph of his father on the mantel. The glass had been shattered by a ricochet, but the picture itself was still intact. “But you…
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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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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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Last Discworld book by late author Terry Pratchett on sale Sept. 1
“Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.” Terry Pratchett, 1948-2015 UPDATE: Aug. 26, 2005: New Discworld book hits stores Sept. 1 Fans of the late Terry Pratchett will be happy to know his latest (and sadly last) Discworld book, The Shepherd’s Crown, will hit bookshelves Sept. 1. His assistant,…
Story By G. Robert Frazier 