In 1999 Witherspoon earned rave reviews for her portrayal of Tracy Flick, an overly ambitious high-school student running for class president, inAlexander Payne’sblack comedyElection. The following year she was cast against type as the girlfriend of a serial killer (played byChristian Bale) in...
Kim’s testimony --- along with a receipt belonging to her found in Gacy’s house, proving that Rob had been there --- would be pivotal in convicting the serial killer who assaulted and killed over 30 young men and boys. Though she grew up far from Des Plaines, Courtney has lived in...
Of Hungarian descendant, something that figures into his fiction which he says is neither fantasy nor SF. He is perhaps best known for his novels about the assassin Vlad Taltos, one of a scorned group of humans living on a world called Dragaera. All are great reads. The Dragaeran series ...
This is exactly what it sounds like: an author editing their own book. It’s not a replacement for professional editing in any way *even when self-publishing). Let me be clear on that before someone smacks me upside the head with theChicago Manual of Style (17thEdition). Rather, self-e...
Back in Buckaroo, Sheriff Crane is still working the lead that Warren gave her about the town doctor – Doctor Glory who is almost certainly involved in the mystery of the butchers. She is assisted by Buckaroo’s mortician, Reverend Fairgold, and a very unlikely source – a freshly released...
I did get a bit tired of reading about how Baum was trying to influence readers to his political views (to be fair some of this may have come from other sources I was reading while confirming what Zipes was noting). If the scarecrow was made from a Munchkin farmer’s clothes, would ...
It's time for the world's most formidable family to take the fight to the enemy . . . THE DARK IN YOUseries:BURNBLAZEASHESEMBERS Embers (Dark in You #4) by Suzanne Wright is the final installment of the Knox/Harper storyline in this series. ...
The first third of the book is a James Bond who is so unfamiliar. He can’t think, he can’t work. It’s a good look at depression, but that’s surely not something we expect to read about the world’s most famous spy. The second third of the book is a whole lot Japanese cult...
You: You’re blogging about it. Jane: Totally different. Hush. You’re breaking my flow. You drive me to the airport at 4:30 a.m., and that’s also 21st century love, isn’t it, anam cara? Moments like this, I do think that we are changing the world, dismantling some of its...
Kim’s testimony --- along with a receipt belonging to her found in Gacy’s house, proving that Rob had been there --- would be pivotal in convicting the serial killer who assaulted and killed over 30 young men and boys. Though she grew up far from Des Plaines, Courtney has lived in...