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 MoreI’ve updated the title story of Rohmer’s Garden.
You’ll get the full explanation, along with the updated version of the complete story here: The reason I’m not posting the whole thing here is that the story comes in at over 5000 words, which I’m thinking might be too long for a post. My …
Read MoreShall I blame the characters?
I suppose I could do so, but why? Am I not the author, the one supposedly in control? If you happen to be reading my book, A Haunting We Will Go . . ., (if you are one of the winners of the Goodreads Giveaway) …
Read MoreEnough Rope by Lawrence Block, a fantastic deal at any price, but today it’s only $2.99 for the kindle version.
Eighty-four stories! This book is massive, and includes complete versions of three of L.B.’s short story collections: Sometimes They Bite, Like a Lamb to the Slaughter, and Some Days You Get the Bear. Any one of these collections alone is worth well more than $2.99. …
Read MoreWell, one day left for Pirate Tales book Giveaway on Goodreads!
I usually try and have the Pirate Tales giveaway start or end on International Talk like a Pirate Day, which is September 19 every year. The day sneaked up on me and I tried to submit the giveaway two days before the big day. There …
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, …
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