When you don’t have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it’s sex. When you have both, it’s health. If everything is simply jake, then you’re frightened of death. — J.P. Donleavy There are many reasons why my mind turns to dark subjects. I love the ability shadows have to hide the unknown…
I try to read a short story, or part of a long short story, every single night. A good habit I started years ago. In the past couple months I picked three books with the word Dark in the titles: Haunted: Dark Delicacies III, Dark Masques, and its companion, Darker Masques, off my shelf I store books…
My favorite season is here. Fall into fall. Did anyone celebrate the solstice? Planning the trip to the pumpkin patch? Here is a photo of one visit to a most excellent pumpkin patch outside Portland, Oregon, complete with two terrifying corn mazes. One for daylight, and the other for night time horror screams. Yes, I…
“In Live Like a Fruit Fly, Gabe Berman shares his recipe for living a more joyful, worthwhile, and abundant life in every way. A witty, entertaining, and insightful read.” — Deepak Chopra It is my pleasure to introduce Gabe Berman, author of Live Like A Fruit Fly, to readers of A Writer’s Life Blog…
JAWS — Going back to Amity: A Classic Film Recommendation. Where were you when you first watched Jaws? Do you have a story to tell? Please let me know what your thoughts are in the comments section. “You’re gonna need a bigger boat.” — improvised line by Roy Scheider from Jaws. I received word earlier…
Lorna T. Suzuki is a prolific author and by reading her short biography I gather Lorna sets her mind on a task and reaches her goal with great satisfaction. We share the love of Alexandre Dumas’ novel The Count of Monte Cristo, a book that should be required reading for any fantasy, suspense, and adventure…
Zippy is right beside me most of the time when I’m in the writing and editing mode. Kipling is waiting by the door to go outside. She misses out on a lot of the tunes playing. Elvis Presley is currently on the spotlight with 50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can’t Be Wrong, an album that captures his…
In Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar’s own words from her Acknowledgements page: This collection began as a whim while I was a graduate studying literature at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina. I took a creative writing seminar as an elective because I’ve always been an avid reader and, as I told the group of…
It is my distinct pleasure to introduce author Tracy James Jones to my A Writer’s Life blog. Tracy is in the writing trenches, producing several books you can find at Amazon right now. These musical selections do not stick to a favorite album list as several other authors have chosen to do within these blog…
If you are a fan of Justin Cronin’s The Passage, and I’m a huge fan, you’ll also dig the new book trailer for The Twelve. What The Passage did for vampires was thrilling. Anything that began to leave behind the glittering emo vampires of Twilight (which I also liked) was a good thing — and…