Reader Complaints About Modern Fiction
Instead of using a Facebook book promo forum to do a BUY BUY BUY on my new book this weekend, I pulled a fast one: I asked the participants what they didn’t like about modern fiction. Fellow authors: These people are your market. They’re the...Why Do You Want A Life Where Nothing Happens?
Story time. I was on a train in Spain crossing the plain eating plantains maintaining my brain. Ok, that last part was wrong. I was on a train in Spain, but it was going along the Mediterranean coast. It was somewhere between the French border and Barcelona. And I was...Review: Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve
Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve My rating: 4 of 5 stars I don’t frequently read in the YA (young adult) genre, but when I hear other grown-ups call it their favorite, I understand why. YA authors know that kids respond to obscurity with boredom. Most kids in that...Poem: Read Us a Poem Mister Funny Man
Read us a poem mister funny man Said the snarling brute while His gun pressed against my cheek. You got your book and it says ‘poem.’ Clearing my throat, I paged to one I thought apropos, about a man So hurt he had to hurt others. The brute nodded,...Poem: Would Then I Finally?
“Would Then I Finally?” When I can finally write a poem That doesn’t make nice people cringe And turn away with faint disgust and piteous condescension: Will then I finally be healed? When I can finally write a song That’s not about petty...
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