Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor tells the story of a black farming family attempting to cope with racism in Mississippi during […]
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New online serial
Broken Eye Books is publishing my new serialized novel Blossoms Blackened Like Dead Stars. The serial continues where I left off in my contribution to […]
The Braided Novel
It’s pretty easy to confuse a braided novel with a fix-up novel. What’s the difference? A braided novel follows multiple viewpoint characters, each of whom […]
The Fix-Up
Most avid fiction fans have probably read plenty of fix-ups, but they might not know the term for this type of book. A fix-up is a collection of […]
Unreliable Narrators
Caitlín R. Kiernan’s dark fantasy novel The Drowning Girl: A Memoir and Robert W. Chambers’ supernatural story collection The King in Yellow have several themes in common—ancient […]
On Plots in Fiction
Simply put, a plot is the series of events that make up a fictional story or novel. My first really big epiphany with regard to […]