What follows is the first of many author interviews I’ll be posting throughout the summer. Hope Ann is a Christian Fantasy author and contributing member of Fantasy Writers and Readers Facebook Group. What are the challenges of being a devoutly Christian author? Quite frankly, the …
Read MoreEff it! Why I (Sometimes) Write with Bad Words #Amwriting
Recently a conversation sparked up in the Fantasy Writers and Readers group. As with any such group, many people hold strong personal convictions about swearing and the use of bad words when writing fiction. Suffice it to say, as I am a writer who tends …
Read More#Review of “Pretty Deadly Vol 1: The Shrike” #Graphicnovel #Comics
The pace of the art and the narrative is intimidating at first, but the activity settles down after a few pages (only to spike again later on). The narrators are a butterfly and a rabbit skeleton — so that’s cool. There’s also a talking crow, …
Read More#Review of Pride of Baghdad, #GraphicNovel. #bookreview
Pride of Baghdad is a graphic novel written by Brian K. Vaughan with art done by Niko Henrichon. Published in 2006, it is definitely a work of its time when the USA and America struggled to come to terms with what was happening in Iraq. …
Read More#GraphicNovel #Review of Batman: The Killing Joke, Deluxe Edition
I’m not a huge Batman guy, or any hero that tries not to kill people. Yes, yes justice is important and and all that. But how many times can we read about throwing a guy in a cell, him getting loose and hurting people again. …
Read MoreReview: Hansel and Gretel by Neil Gaiman and Lorenzo Mattotti #Youngadult #Graphicnovel
Hunger as Motive Hansel and Gretel by Neil Gaiman and Lorenzo Mattotti (Four/Five Stars) Perhaps Gaiman’s best adjustment to this timeless tale is the accent he places over the hunger that Hansel and Gretel’s family endured. Using hunger as a motive for these children’s actions …
Read MoreReview: The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Neil Gaiman
Four of Five Stars The Ocean at the End of the Lane, by Neil Gaiman, is an ‘adult’ fairy tale novel (a novella, really, or close to it) that follows a middle-aged narrator who is inexplicably drawn back to the lane he grew up on. …
Read MoreGratitude and humility following the release of “Consolation of the Rose”
I blinked away the tears as I drove. It took two days before I realized what I had just shared with everyone. I had taken a healthy chunk of my pain and rendered it into a small magical pill exceeding no more than 1000 words. …
Read MoreConsolation of the Rose — A new, free urban fantasy drama #flashfiction
I am (happy? sad?) to release a new flash fiction, urban fantasy drama. This story is the closest I’ve come to writing about myself and what’s going on in my life. Many families are decimated by cancer each day. Yeah, this story goes there. The …
Read MoreEnjoying a better book diet.
I fear a world where everyone reads the same stuff. A new year just turned and with it came troves of book lists telling us all about the most best and/or most popular reads of 2015. Gaggles of readers are now catching up with what …
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