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Review: THE ABSENT WOMAN by Marlene Lee 12 Apr 2013 | 07:33 pm
“I feel flat,” I tried to explain to my friend Jerry the day after I’d seen the old hotel. “I want adventure. I want to accomplish something. I want to live in a fishing village at the edge of the con...
Interview: Steve Weddle, writer and editor of NEEDLE: A MAGAZINE OF NOIR 26 Mar 2013 | 09:49 pm
Steve Weddle grew up on the Louisiana/Arkansas line, holds an MFA in creative writing from Louisiana State University, and currently works for a newspaper group. He lives with his family in Virginia. ...
The Joy of Cutting 19 Mar 2013 | 10:57 pm
This is not a post about self-injurious behavior. It's about learning to love cutting words. I started a fictional blog called THE IRATE SAVANT back in 2004. When I decided to turn it into a novel, ...
Interview: Elva Maxine Beach, author of NEUROTICA 5 Mar 2013 | 07:53 pm
Reposting a 2009 interview I conducted with my great friend Elva Maxine Beach, author of Neurotica. One reviewer had this to say about Elva Maxine Beach's story cycle, NEUROTICA: Beach has written a...
Why I quit rating books 20 Feb 2013 | 09:00 pm
I rated something like 250 books in Goodreads. The other day I took all the ratings down. Why? First of all, a five-star scale is the absolute worst fucking way to rate a book--except for maybe a t...
A brainstorming technique 5 Feb 2013 | 10:06 pm
Get a box. Bedazzle or spend a fortune if you must, but any box will do. A shoebox is perfect. Buy several packs of index cards--blank, lined, colored, whatever. Then, whenever you have an idea, w...
Untitled 19 Mar 2011 | 07:34 am
I'll be back. Later.
