If you’ve visited the site recently, you may have noticed a few changes in the Reviews department. It’s taken nearly ten months, but we finally feel we’ve amassed enough professional reviews to highlight with a rolling ticker on the main page, and a compilation link. So consider this a bit of a belated unveiling and…
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Let’s be honest, people only really come to appreciate a thing when they are in danger of losing it. This holds true for friends and family, boyfriends, girlfriends, pets, your favorite ratty old chair, that Van Halen poster hanging on the wall, and your extensive beer bottle collection. It also holds true for your characters….
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Something extraordinary has happened: Apparently I now love YA novels. I don’t know when this happened. It seems counter to logic; that a man growing older somehow is regressing in the age range of his taste for books. I mean, if you were to ask me, I’d say that my tastes in literature haven’t really…
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I’m just back from an all too brief vacation. If you’ve read any of my previous posts, you’ll know that I’m a big proponent of stepping away from your work to gain perspective. I’m constantly amazed at, and slightly wary of, the new crop of writers that seem to be able to crank out more…
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The other day I was sitting at my desk, flabbergasted that we, as a people, haven’t yet trained birds to bring us everything we need. There are so many birds out there, and they’ve been there forever, and there are so many things that we use on a daily basis that are bird carry-able, that…
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