Hello all. Today’s interview is with R. F. Bruce, author of The Life and Times of Dinah Marton. (Before reading the interview, you might want to read my review of the book first. Read it here.) About R. F. Bruce: Although Bruce is an avid writer, professionally he is a video game design instructor for a…
Hello All, Today’s interview is with Curtis Bausse, author of the Magali Rousseau mystery series (One Green Bottle and the recently published Perfume Island both reviewed by me here) and editor of the Book A Break Anthologies (With Our Eyes Open and Cat Tales also reviewed by me here). I contacted Curtis by e-mail and…
Let me begin with a disclaimer (or maybe an excuse) – I don’t read a lot of crime/mystery novels, so please read on with that in mind. My experience in this genre is limited to Colin Dexter’s Inspector Morse series, Johnson’s Longmire books, and Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe novels. That’s it. Of course, I’ve also…
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…
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…
The last don’t do I want to discuss for now is really simple – don’t steal plots. Every so often I come across a posted story that elicits a sense of déjà vu as I continue to read. Then it strikes me – this is just (put title of famous novel or movie here) rehashed…
A number of years ago there was an, unfortunately, short-lived scifi magazine titled “Aboriginal Science Fiction.” It published short stories, movie reviews and book reviews. The one thing I will always remember was the way one of its book reviewers began one of his columns. He was responding to the question, “Why don’t you ever…
So your manuscript has been through a number of drafts, been read by a few people in your writers club and fairly heavily critiqued. You’re sure it’s ready. What now? Well, you actually have a number of choices. Send to a copy to a publishing house that’s accepting unsolicited manuscripts. It’s important to check their…
Sitting around a campfire the mind often wanders, explores new ideas or revisits old ones. Sometimes conversations just ramble until someone trips over an interesting thought. This is a page to post those thoughts about writing, science fiction, fantasy, whatever. So stare into the fire and let your mind go…