Sipi Falls is an absolutely beautiful place near the eastern edge of Uganda, right at the northwest corner of the Mt. Elgon national Park. It’s a well known spot for hikers to visit and is famous for the falls, but also for its coffee. We got to stay at the lovely Sipi River Lodge. If…
33 itemsFirst day at Murchison Falls. As we neared the Falls we were greeted by some locals. Of course then there was mom and baby ignoring us. The Murchison Falls Park was incredible. I got to enjoy one of my favorite passtimes – photography. As you can see, most of the time I spent was looking…
To get from the camp to the park we had to take a ferry, and to do that we all had to be in the van no later than 6:30AM! Why? Because the ferry ran once an hour, no matter how many vehicles were waiting. So you did not want to miss it! Finally…
In the afternoon we did something different – a boat ride along the Nile. This way we could see the animals that tended to stay near the water as opposed to the savanna. The most obvious are the hippos. The African Buffalo is also very common along the shore. Of course, it wouldn’t be the…
Atthys Gage is a writer with a lifelong love for myth, magic, and books. His second real job was in a bookstore. As was his third, fourth, fifth and sixth. Eventually, he stopped trying to sell books and started writing them. He has always had a fascination for that cloudy borderline between the normal and…
Let me start with a disclaimer – I’m not all that familiar with recent Young Adult genre fiction. Prior to reading Paolo Bacigalupi’s Ship Breaker, and The Drowned Cities, the most recently published YA book I’ve read was Spacemen, Go Home by Milton Lesser, the last in the Winston Science Fiction YA series, published in…
Hello All, Note: Prostitute of State has now been published! Visit Amazon and get yourself a copy! Today’s interview is with Kate Kinnear, poet and author of Prostitute of State, currently available as a free read on BOOKKUS. If you haven’t yet read my review of Prostitute of State you can see it…
Note: Prostitute of State has now been published! Visit Amazon and get yourself a copy! [NOTE: Prostitute of the State by Kate Kinnear is a free read posted on Bookkus.com. It has not yet been accepted for publication. So it’s not been editorially reviewed, and you will come across the occasional typo or rare…
Hello All, Welcome to my interview with Michael R. Hagan, author of the paranormal thriller DEMIURGE, Blood of the Innocent, published by Bookkus Publishing. Just for full disclosure, I’ve know Mike for a few years, since meeting him on Book Country, the writer’s web site. We’ve posted comments, along with many others, helping each other…
Post 24 Character Development – Keeping notes. My first bit of advice about character development is simple – keep notes. Especially if you want to write a story laden with multiple characters it’s very important to strive for consistency in characterization. I know, I know… we’ve all read and seen stories where the coward suddenly…