I hereby posit that there is no such thing as the perfect horror story. To my mind the absolute perfect horror story would be so utterly terrifying that the reader would drop dead upon reading the story. He or she would be literally “scared to …
Read MoreCould Charles Dickens make it as an author if he were just starting out today?
I finished reading Charles Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend just the other week or so (the roughly 900-page tome). There is something to be said for sitting down and plowing through an actual book book, something thick and weighty. You can feel the heft of the …
Read More“To Olivia,” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and “Man from the South.”
Not sure where to begin here, so I’ll just jump into it . . . About a year ago I stumbled across a movie called “To Olivia.” I was intrigued when I read the description. This was a movie about Roald Dahl and Patricia Neal, …
Read MoreCHAT GPT Writes a story!
Sort of. So you’re probably familiar with the terms “smart technology” and “artificial intelligence.” And you may or may not be familiar with the term “natural language processing,” also known as NLP (not to be confused with neural linguistic programming, which is something different). In …
Read MoreTo continue with the SCUBA mystery theme . . .
I don’t know that I actually forgot about having previously written a SCUBA mystery of my own when I was writing the last post, but I didn’t mention it. Perhaps I was just too excited about the new books I had found. Of course, the …
Read MoreI’ve been remiss. A Thank You is in order.
Here is the Thank You: Sincerely, to all who entered the Goodreads Giveaways for Blue Girl and the Stars, and The Scarecrow (Volume four of the Dark Tales of the Civil War series) I very much appreciate it! And, as usual, to those who won, …
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