Need nonfiction? I can help!
Last week, I added a couple of new reward levels to my Patreon: Ghostwriter $150 or more per month In addition to all my writing, prompts, and monthly chats, I will write up to 750 words of nonfiction to order per month. Need technical documentation? Business letters? Memos? Reports? Blog posts? Copy writing? Instructional materials? Essays? […]
The Call of Cthulhu
“The Call of Cthulhu” is probably H.P. Lovecraft’s most enduring and influential story. It’s been reprinted and borrowed from and adapted in thousands of ways since its publication in Weird Tales in 1928. Lovecraft, a movie fan, would probably approve of the faithfully retro black-and-white film of his tale released by H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society in 2005; he might be horrified by […]
More Advice to Beginning Writers
Several years ago, I posted some advice to beginning fiction writers. I still field regular queries from aspiring writers. Lately, the questions I’ve received have fallen into three general categories. How to Keep Writing When Things Get Tough I’m a binge writer at heart, so I set aside large blocks of time to work on my stories. […]
The Waste Lands
Early on The Waste Lands (the third book in The Dark Tower series by Stephen King), protagonists Roland, Eddie, and Susannah encounter Shardik, a gigantic bear who is at first portrayed as a kind of ancient wilderness deity: Once, the Old People had lived in the West Woods (it was their leavings which Roland had found from […]
The Drawing of the Three
The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King is the second volume in The Dark Tower, his epic, cross-genre novel series. I enjoyed the first novel, The Gunslinger, but for me, this is where The Dark Tower really starts to get interesting. One of the aspects of the novel that I found particularly interesting was King’s narrative technique of having Roland (the main […]
The Gunslinger
The Gunslinger is the first novel in The Dark Tower, Stephen King’s classic, epic cross-genre series. It introduces the reader to the last gunslinger, Roland of Gilead, as he pursues The Man in Black across a vast land laid to waste. The setting is part Wild West, part medieval fantasy, and part far-future dystopia. King started writing the novel […]
On Being Nineteen
When I started reading Stephen King’s Dark Tower novels, one of the things that resonated with me is his introduction, “On Being Nineteen”, which is included in each book in the series (at least the editions I’ve been reading). In his essay, King covers his motivations for starting The Gunslinger way back when he was just a teenager and […]
Choke Hold
Choke Hold is the 2011 sequel to Christa Faust’s Money Shot. It offers the first-person narrative of former porn actress Angel Dare as she tries to save the mixed martial artist son of a former lover from being murdered by gangsters. Faust offers a fast-paced, gritty, action-packed narrative that offers a more critical, more aware view of violence […]
