up adrift in some doldrums about what kind of themes broader audiences wanted. I started writingSlashin a coffee shop in Albany New York in part as a satire of paranormal romances like theTwilightseries. The idea was to write a story that started out as a romance then had everything crash...
Leave a comment Posted in Uncategorized Tagged augusta, beach-reading, book-review, book-reviews, books, cats, fiction, horror, maine, old-port, portland, romance, splash, twilight, zombie-cats, zombies BOOK RELEASE: RED DECEMBER Posted by Carl R. Moore on June 26, 2024 Happy to announc...
Dark Academia means an aesthetic that revolves around the essence of classic academia, mystery and romance. It takes inspiration from traditional universities, libraries, castles, galleries, museums and boarding schools of the Victorian era, the Gothic era and some elements from the Medieval era. If...
getting detained or tortured. Taranom struggles with the isolation that goes with living in a safe house away from her community, while Sharifa serves as the most common example of women stuck at home with few liberties. If you need a definition of systemic oppression, this film provides it....
The romance of peasant-blouse shapes mixed with folk references: re-imagined Peruvian, Moroccan and Indonesian textile embellishment and cowrie shell detailing (which appeared again on sandals); prints encompassed stars, again on an ochre base, tiny dots, red on black, and the branch-like barbed...
Afternoon Reading: Violent Delights – Deadly Romance The Perils Of Self Doubt Conceptual Writing Stay In Your Lane Don’t Rush To The End Artistic Freedom ABACAB: A Writing Method According to Sanford Meisner, the definition of acting is “behaving truthfully under given circumstances.”...
Blake Lively is absolutely amazing in this. I missed Gossip Girl with her, not my thing, but she came to my attention with Green Lantern and her strong desire to play Star Sapphire in the sequel that will never happen. Her first truly memorable turn was in the supernatural romance Age of...
It’s a genre characterized by contrast, mixing elements of dark romance, horror, and the supernatural. The macabre and grotesque are sketched out in flowery prose. The humor is dark and the angst is palpable. In some Southern Gothic books, the supernatural is used to heighten the sense of...
Dean Wells RSS The Years That Weren’t Posted bydeanwells949onJanuary 11, 2021 When I posted my last entry, it never occurred to me that two years would pass before I updated these pages again; two, plus the year preceding them. Not a single word, though I did keep creatively active ...
SS: I never put on a cap and say THIS IS HIGH FANTASY but tell a story. The way I write comes out rough & brutal, be it a horror, romance or western. If anything, life is brutal and I try to be as close to real as possible. I don’t go out of my way to get my jollies...