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One Possible (but Highly Politically Incorrect) Reason Boys Don’t Read “Girl...
Last week, writer friend Katherine Coble linked to an interesting article entitled If Boys Really Won’t Read Books about Girls, We Have a Problem. The author, Amy Sundberg, is coming at this from the...
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Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road”— Masterpiece or Piece of Crap?
Cormac McCarthy’s The Road won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize. It also currently has 312 one-star reviews at Amazon and over 8,000 one-star reviews on Goodreads. Pulitzer Prize. Lotsa one- star reviews. Best...
View ArticleDo Author Blogs Really Sell Books? Here’s My Experience
Another topic that came up in the comments on last week’s thread about crime fiction writer Mark Bertrand was brought up by J.L. Lyons who suggested that “the burden of responsibility for connecting to...
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Can You Critique a Book You Haven’t Read?
I publicly expressed some concerns about the theology of a recently released book. I was contacted by the Contributor / Editor and we exchanged some private messages in which he challenged me to read...
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Monsters of Literature — Anthropophagi
The list of cool monsters found in literature is quite extensive: Frankenstein, Dracula, Medusa, Grendel, the Balrog, Cyclops, and the list goes on. One of my favorite recent reads was Rick Yancey’s...
View ArticleAre Negative Reviews a Form of Bullying?
That was the question writing coach and consultant Martha Alderson was asked, specifically about some negative reviews she had received on one of her writing books. Martha answered that question in the...
View ArticleReading Books You “Should” Read v. Reading Books You Want
In his book on the craft of writing, Stephen King condensed his advice down to two simple axioms: “If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.” Hard...
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“I Don’t Read Mormons!”
That was pretty much the response I got from one Facebook friend when I asked about reading Brandon Sanderson. I’m regularly hearing good things about Sanderson’s novels, but his catalog is so vast I...
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“Booked”: A Spiritual Memoir for Book Lovers
I’ve never really wanted to read Jane Eyre. Until now. Jane Eyre is just one of several pieces of classic literature that Karen Swallow Prior, Professor of English at Liberty University, uses to...
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Blog Hop Tour
So there’s a “Blog Hop” tour going around among some writer friends in which we all answer the same four questions about our latest release and other writing related stuff. Thanks to novelist Kerry...
View ArticleHow Autonomous Are Your Fictional Characters?
In his book On Writing, Stephen King uses a unique illustration to describe the relationship of the author to her story. Novelists, suggests King, are less creators than they are discoverers. He...
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Kindle Countdown Deal for “The Ghost Box”
I’ve been getting some great reviews for The Ghost Box since its release last month. Grace Bridges said the novel is “Funny as heck… with some awesome surprise twists.” Mike Roop described it as “a...
View ArticleMy 2014 Reading List
Sadly, one of the things I sacrifice when writing, is reading. Ironic, huh? By the paltry size of these lists, you can see I’m not a prolific reader. Or maybe I was just writing a lot. Either way, I...
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