Category: Staff Articles

I try out my hand at noir—style detective fiction with a twist over at JD Mader’s place. (Or one of his places.)

I asked authors to send me pictures of themselves from 10 years or more ago, even high school yearbook pics, but nothing they’d use on a book cover.

Here is my first volunteer. Yes, you have seen this young lady before. She is one of the authors I have interviewed here.

Her first book just came out and is now available in print as well.

Her advice to aspiring authors is, “If you truly love to write, then don’t think of yourself as an aspiring writer. Just be a writer and write.”

Do you know who she is? (Answer below the fold) Continue reading “Guess Who? (#1)”

I have not read the books and have not watched the movies. Any rational person would withhold opinion, but hey—I go where angels fear to tread. Besides, I did see the previews of all the movies and it scarred me for life. Stephanie Meyer has killed vampires more effectively than Buffy could ever have dreamed of doing.

She combined the angst-ridden teen drama of 90210 with vampires. Take that, Lugosi and Lee et al. She made the vampires sparkly, the way Tim Allen’s character suggested Santa’s elves should be in “The Santa Clause.” That’s just wrong. Continue reading “Die Twilight! Die!”

Nicole Humphrey Cook lays out 7 Simple Ways Writers Can Pay It Forward.

Superhero Katheryn Lane on how to UPGRADE your life.

The ubiquitous Janet Beasley interviews George Sirois.

Old, but still news to me: the top 10 songs for writers?