Raymond E. Feist, author of the quite lengthy Riftwar Cycle series (30 novels and 3 short stories in length), wasn’t my favorite author as a teen. In fact, I stopped reading the Riftwar Cycle somewhere around book 9, Shadow of Read More…
Greatness comes in many shapes, many forms, and doesn’t always flout its greatness. In fact, many would argue that the greatest in our world are those that just live. They live as themselves and give of themselves so that others Read More…
I started this post with the intention to say, let’s be frank as in let’s be honest, but then…cat. So let’s be DiNozzo, here. According to my cats, I am not a writer. My real job is a cat herder. Read More…
The first time I read Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift (published in 1726), I was ten. My father and I were up in Michigan visiting my paternal grandmother, aunts, uncles, and cousins. I remember it was the holidays, and we Read More…
In the 17 months since I retired teaching to write full-time, I’ve heard that sentence from more people than I care to mention. Some of them friends and family. Some of them people who want to be writers. The other Read More…
I read The White Raven by Diana L. Paxson in 8th grade, with no knowledge that it was a retelling of the Celtic legend about Tristan and Iseult. In fact, I’d never even heard the legend of Tristan and Iseult in Read More…
I just finished reading Insurgent (2nd book in the Divergent series by Veronica Roth) and enjoyed it enough that book 3 is on its way to my mailbox (thanks Amazon Prime!). Honestly, I enjoyed Book II more than Book I. Read More…
Published in 1982, Crystal Singer was penned by Anne McCaffrey as a result from events in her personal life. If you don’t know a lot about Anne McCaffrey, she was a musician and opera singer for a bit of her Read More…
This is more of a craft-of-writing post than a post for the readers, but anyone is welcome to read it! Magnolia Chapter One is focusing on the craft of dialogue this month. Today, my article entitled “Siri-ous Dialogue” went up Read More…
EDIT: Since writing this post, I’ve learned about the author’s history of child molestation and abuse. I can no longer support MZB’s works or this book. You can read more on that here. 876 pages. That’s the length of Marion Read More…
