A Collection of Curiosities: Part V

You may have noticed that it's been a bit quieter in these parts as of late. I've noticed a turn in the venues I use for output as the sun comes out from hiding all winter. This is to say my [...]

There's a part of my writer's brain that switches off the social normalizing mechanism that would often give another sane person pause when typing a similar phrase into google, but for me it [...]

Okay, so. Where to begin. Beyond the requisite knuckle cracking and shoulder rolling, this shouldn't take much of an effort, but I find when trying to do the best by certain authors, it takes a [...]

Oh, it's certainly that time of week again: today, we're poking at a trope that pisses off people pretty quick: writers are either for or against it, but divided they stand and the rift that [...]

I'm happy to invite author L.M. Pruitt to the blog today to share a story today on her blog tour travels for her upcoming horror novel, Silk. Details about the book can be found at the bottom of [...]

Monsters. Making them. Breaking them. Setting up the big reveal. Prolonging the suspense. Making them scary... And how monster archetypes work in contemporary fiction. I've got a selection of [...]

I might be late to the party, but I suspect that's the fashionable way to handle these things. I like scheduling these "wunderkammer of the web" type posts for the 27th or the 28th of the month, [...]

I’m pleased to welcome Kristy Harding to the blog today to talk about discipline, writing, and the inevitable burnout that we as writers sometimes experience. Frankly, sometimes the standard [...]

This is a particular collection specific to writer-types dabbling in the supernatural stuff. Since this is the place where I live and breathe ninety percent of the time, it follows that a lot of [...]

Oh books. It's nice to have a bit of space to be buying hardcovers again. I cleared off two stacks worth of (very old) paperbacks to make more room on my shelves and to send all those Anita Blake [...]