SO WHAT IS A BETA CRITIQUE? IT IS NOT A ROMAN ARENA FOR A THUMBS UP OR THUMBS DOWN. Agents… Read more HOW TO BE A BETA READER: pun intended
Category: READING FOR WRITERS BLOG
GAIA: 5 STAR BOOK REVIEW
NOVACENE: THE COMING OF AGE OF HYPERINTELLIGENCE BY JAMES LOVELOCK (with Bryan Appleyard) Penguin, London, 2019 Let me begin by… Read more GAIA: 5 STAR BOOK REVIEW
9. Putting on the Wellies / SUSPENSE
PSYCHOLOGICAL SUSPENSE IN NARRATORS NOTES FROM “The Unreliable Narrator,” a lecture by Carol Goodman Crime Bake, MA. 2019 Narrator fallibility… Read more 9. Putting on the Wellies / SUSPENSE
FIVE STAR NON-FICTION: RABID by Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy
As a tailgater of genetic and epigentic advances in medicine, I was fascinated by this somewhat anecdotal and jumpy narrative… Read more FIVE STAR NON-FICTION: RABID by Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy
FIVE STAR DIALOGUE AND MOOD PIECE: ‘THE CHILD THIEF’ BY J. B. ROCKWELL
This stunning short fantasy is published in an anthology titled in LITTLE GIRL LOST, Mannison Press, 2019. It is a… Read more FIVE STAR DIALOGUE AND MOOD PIECE: ‘THE CHILD THIEF’ BY J. B. ROCKWELL
FIVE STAR: REVIEW OF SALMAN RUSHDIE’S QUICHOTTE.
A mesmerizing single-sitting read if you’re up for it. QUICHOTTE is yet another sample of Rushdie’s prose-magic–or “metaphoric roguery”–a serpentine… Read more FIVE STAR: REVIEW OF SALMAN RUSHDIE’S QUICHOTTE.
FIVE STAR: A STRUCTURAL REVIEW OF THE SCI-FI SHORT STORY “STORY OF YOUR LIFE.”
TED CHIANG’s amazing imagination together with his knowledge of math, science, mechanics, and linguistics has gifted us with a volume… Read more FIVE STAR: A STRUCTURAL REVIEW OF THE SCI-FI SHORT STORY “STORY OF YOUR LIFE.”
Putting on the Wellies: Home Research
Classic: Roget’s Thesaurus. Online: powerthesaurus.org Dictionaries: The Oxford English Dictionary (OED), especially useful for establishing historical word use Webster’s Encyclopedic… Read more Putting on the Wellies: Home Research
FIVE STAR Novels of Missing Persons
Jonathan Letham: THE FERAL DETECTIVE. A gripping journey, in the company of Phoebe and the feral Detective Charles Heist, into… Read more FIVE STAR Novels of Missing Persons
FIVE STAR INDIE BOOKS
Elliott Downing: The Keys of the Kingdom. Self-Published. A compelling short fiction dealing with the public exploitation of private grief… Read more FIVE STAR INDIE BOOKS