monsters | monsters
Apr.08.2013
Now available for FREE download, another short tale from "The Death Wizard Chronicles" titled "The Black Fortress."
Praise for Jim Melvin’s The Death Wizard Chronicles from the Charlotte Observer: “. . . a masterful new fantasy writer . . ."
In "The Black Fortress," Torg, the Death Wizard, faces...
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Feb.10.2013
Magnolia trees have been blossoming here in South Carolina for the last three or four weeks. Daffodils and narcissus and azalea bushes have been showing off their glories. The local garden stores have spring herbs and flowers for sale. It is early February and the world has...
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Oct.29.2012
Monsters come in many forms. There's the monstrously misshapen but initially kind creature who is turned into a real monster by humanity's intolerance. There's the beautiful, seductive monster with sinister plans or unnatural and unholy appetites. There are human monsters, man-made monsters,...
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Oct.27.2012
It has been an eventful past few weeks for both me personally and my fantasy series professionally. This past weekend, I went to St. Petersburg and appeared on Saturday (Oct. 20) at the Times Festival of Reading, where I gave a talk/reading/signing which by all accounts went really well.
Just...
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Oct.22.2012
Today, I have the privilege of launching the Official Blog Tour of author T. K. Harris. She starts by sharing how her novel, Phantom Dreams, was born.It started with a dream. I know cliché right? But it really did. I had a dream that I was walking through a large crowd of people, surrounded by...
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Sep.15.2012
One of the great things about the ebook explosion is that it has revived hope for thousands of authors who until recently could not attain much success unless they were able to sign with one of the mega-giant publishing houses. Ebooks have evened the playing field and made it possible for new...
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Nov.12.2011
Grendel, by John Gardner
image via hammysbooks.blogspot.com
Beowulf has been an on-again, off-again read for me since high school. Then, a few years ago, Seamus Heaney’s translation of the tale placed me in the first row for Beowulf, and so when I came across Gardner’s telling of Grendel’s...
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Oct.21.2011
From the first day that she and her husband moved into their Prague flat overlooking the botanical gardens and the Vyšehrad Chapel, she was drawn to the abandoned building across the way, with its back side facing their picture windows. First, it began as a mild interest. She would smoke her...
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Aug.23.2011
I wrote my first novel when I was 21 years old and Jimmy Carter was president. Sarah’s Curse was an artsy murder mystery bursting with passion and intensity. I shopped it around to various publishers and got no bites, but I wasn’t particularly concerned at the time. It’s usually the second or third...
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May.16.2011
Shapeshifting is generally associated with Native American culture and legend, but I can't say for certain whether or not it is regarded as truth among Native Americans themselves. However, it has become a sort of mainstream interest with paranormal and occult enthusiasts, with books and websites...
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