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HOW TO BE A BETA READER: pun intended

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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

GAIA: 5 STAR BOOK REVIEW

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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.”

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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

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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

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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

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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

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