Yanji, neither North nor South and certainly not a unified Korea, still separated as it is by the unfinished war between North and South, a place of an almost unreal status. The two half-brothers have never met before and, being as foreign to ...
It was the Bandera 100K, relocated 90 minutes west at Camp Eagle due to hard rain, a church summer camp with a lot of land on the Nueces River. I can’t think of any place on earth closer to hell than South Texas in the summer, but I suppose they make the most of the Nueces ...
I’m a fan of historical fiction and foreign settings, so I knew I had to read this book. Samantha Hastings is also a local author, which made me even more eager to dive in. This book was a fun summer read full of sisterhood bonds, adventure, and romance. ...
I’m a big Swanwick fan and this book strikes me as a glorfied Faust, SF stylw that not only reworks the various well known tales of Faust, but in it’s glory gives a message about the nature of Science Fiction itself, it’s fictional martyrs, and the end game represented. Or, I...
continent”,which combined qualities of Africa and South America. I may have more than one such tropical region, if I can make them distinct enough. I do definitely like the idea of a very Mesoamerican region. Mesoamerica is really, really cool, and it’s mostly ignored in fantasy fiction....
X-sports fan hangs clothes up in gorge Heatwave brings high temperature to Beijing Sotheby's sells world's most expensive earrings for £45 million A pair of odd-coloured diamonds have become the world's most expensive earrings by selling for a staggering £45 million. The Apollo and Artem...
One of our readers for tonight’s show is unable to make it due to illness. So we’re bringing back one of our 2017 readers: Tina Jenkins Bell. Tina is a published fiction writer, journalist, academic, fiction editor for an online zine, blogger, and literary activist. ...
I have three other fiction books in the immediate pipeline (another collection of flash-fiction, a short story collection, and a fantasy novel), and several others in various stages of writing. I do not say this to toot my own horn, but to make clear that the method I describe is not...
Critic John Mosher was no fan of Jean Harlow’s, but he did acknowledge her box office appeal, and that fans eagerly awaited the Blonde Bombshell’s next picture, The Girl from Missouri…with its “usual plot of a gold-digger and millionaries.” Mosher also noted that Harlow, along with...
like my brain is too busy focusing on new information to focus on creating. I listen to a lot of melodic rock while I write both poetry and fiction. Either that or I need white noise, like the hum of a box fan. I cannot write in pure silence. Some artists I’ve listened to includ...