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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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Dead But Dreaming
That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die. In his house at R’lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming. […]
The Yellow Wallpaper
The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a brilliant 1892 story that presents the first-person chronicle of a woman in a stifling marriage driven […]
Rappaccini’s Daughter
The classic Nathaniel Hawthorne tale “Rappaccini’s Daughter” tells the story of a young man named Giovanni who moves to Padua to be a university student. […]
The Graveyard Book
(Spoilers follow!) The Graveyard Book is a children’s novel by popular author Neil Gaiman. It’s constructed as a set of linked stories — Gaiman loosely modeled the […]