- Aug 9, 2016
- 3 min
Writing Tips: Plotting Your Pants (Wait, That Sounds Bad…)
Here's the text of a post Janice Hardy kindly allowed me to make on her excellent Fiction University site: Some authors plot their novels...
- Jul 25, 2016
- 2 min
Book Review: The Paper Magician, by Charlie Holmberg
For a book that clocks in at only 226 pages, Charlie Holmberg’s The Paper Magician sure delves into a lot of backstory. Stranger still,...
- Jun 20, 2016
- 2 min
Book Review: The Drawing of the Three, by Stephen King
Most authors wouldn’t start the second installment in a seven-book series by maiming the protagonist. But The Drawing of the Three was...
- May 23, 2016
- 2 min
Book Review: American Gods, by Neil Gaiman
Did gods create the people of Earth to believe in them? Or did the people of Earth create gods by believing in them? In American Gods,...
- May 3, 2016
- 2 min
Book Review: Stormbird, by Conn Iggulden
History rarely presents a neat narrative, and the Wars of the Roses are about as messy as it gets. Multiple royal houses battling for the...