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I like books 1 Reading came first. It always does. Reading is the inhale, writing is the exhale. I once read somewhere that kids who like to read fall into two groups. The first naturally picks up reading from their environment: they see their parents reading, they find books in the house, they go to libraries [...] Many tools have been developed to aid law enforcement personnel. These include fingerprinting, blood typing, lie detecting and DNA (desoxyribonucleic acid) analysis. The latter, especially, has undergone continuing improvements and is now an established forensic tool. Its use has been spreading to law enforcement agencies throughout the world. Even a [...] The biggest problem with my first novel, I think, was the fact that it straddled genres or defied easy classification. I used to refer to it as a “maybe ghost story.” It’s not all that unusual a concept. There’s a ghost in the book if you believe one character, and it’s all in the character’s [...] A press conference was held yesterday at the Frankfurt Book Fair in Germany to announce my latest project, HELLstalkers. This new series is being written in conjunction with my friend and fellow writer, Jon Merz, and what makes it so new and interesting to us is the fact that it is being written for the [...] Thank you, thank you, and I’d especially like to express my appreciation to the following people: * Deena Fisher of Drollerie Press for editing my novel, Alien Dreams, and also doing the cover art and design on the book; * Jody Wallace of NovelBooks, Inc. and Michele Dowdey of Mundania Press for editing successive editions of my novel, Beyond [...] [Another Storytellers alumnus...you'll note that Sarah, who has several books behind her now and quite the career going, was just "becoming" a horror writer at the time of the original posting. Next month Gary and Lucy will resume their regularly scheduled posts] At some point this year I evolved from being an ordinary person into a [...] Want to know why no one ever writes about a perfect day? Because it’s boring. Want to know why no one cares about a perfect person having a perfect day? Same answer. It’s simple, really. Your characters have to be human enough in one form or another for people to read about them and to care [...] The first rejection stole her confidence. She didn’t put her typewriter away, but she did stop mailing out the manuscripts. Emily had stories to tell. Inspired in her youth by Shirley Jackson and Margaret St. Clair and C.L. Moore, she wanted to write weird fiction. Every time she thought she had produced something [...] MY ARCHIVED COLUMNS & COMMENTS ARE NOW FULLY RESTORED!!! Hello, fans and friends, and welcome strangers! As you can see, there has been a scene change on the StorytellersUnplugged stage. Joe Nassise’s original brainchild is being transferred to David Niall Wilson’s site for easier management. The dust will be settling for a brief while, but as of October [...] |
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