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Apr.26.2012 My Interview, Part 1 Following is the beginning of my interview at a cool website for newbie and professional writers, The Writer's Block, at Raychelle-Writes.blogspot.com. Specifically, you can find my interview here. But it's an interesting site, so look around! Welcome to The Writer’s...	Aug.15.2011 Flashback--Dan Simmons The good thing to say about this book is that I bought it about a week ago and read the whole thing in about three days. So it (mostly) moves swiftly, or I read well and swiftly, or both. Otherwise it is very disappointing. Not a bad read, exactly, especially for these rainy days;...
Mar.14.2011 A Winter Haunting Very effectively creepy. Reminds me a lot of an Aidan Quinn/Kate Beckinsale movie, Haunted, and John Gielgud, in which everyone's a ghost, and everything's haunted, and that the beautiful mansion he saw was actually a decrepit wreck of a former mansion. Both this book and that movie have an...	Feb.19.2011 The Terror I've beat the Dan Simmons drum before, with the recently-read Drood. That book had been very good; for a look at my review on this blog, go a few blogs entries below here. But now, let's talk about The Terror. This book is much longer, and much more brilliant. At 955 very thin, paperback...
Feb.09.2011 James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway--and Dan Simmons A friend of mine is leaving Sunday to go overseas for a few months, so he and I hung out for awhile tonight. Where would two writers hang out on a Wednesday night with the salt and sand trucks haunting the roads and with both guys short on money? Borders, of course! Since his birthday is...	Feb.04.2011 Drood--What Is Good Mystery Writing? I have been away a little while; an immediate family member has been diagnosed with an advanced form of cancer--in a few different areas. This is bad enough, but there's also a major deadline at work: tons of things due this coming week. Of course. So what does one do when faced with all this? ...