Will North
Water, Stone, Heart is a modern romance set in Cornwall, England. The tale meanders comfortably through the countryside and through the friendships of two Americans come to the Atlantic coast:…
Water, Stone, Heart is a modern romance set in Cornwall, England. The tale meanders comfortably through the countryside and through the friendships of two Americans come to the Atlantic coast:…
Book burning is not a new phenomenon. And the equivalent in the digital world is simple deletion. But both involve choices to destroy something that has been created, which many…
My first science fiction novels were those of Robert Heinlein. I could not get enough of them. Starship Troopers introduced me to life in outer space. The characters written by…
One of the difficulties in writing is the need to make a story "believable." The trouble is that what is believable in the mind of one reader is absurd to…
Perhaps best known for The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown does not restrict himself to tales with religious overtones. In Digital Fortress, technology meant to crack codes succumbs to human…
Much is made of what we read: fiction or nonfiction, genres or types within each of those, in print or digital form, as books or articles or blogs. But what…
Charming the Highlander combines a Scottish warrior, a wizard, time travel, a wintry mountain landscape, and a modern woman into a Romance that is both predictable in the sense that…
In a previous blog post, I mention a specific actor and film that inspired one of my characters. Creativity is said to come from putting existing elements together in a…
Pompeii is an historical novel through which the reader lives the last days of that doomed city of luxury and its neighbouring community, Herculaneum. The signs are there: Wells and…
Authors joke about getting even with enemies, or those who simply tick them off, by writing them into a novel and killing them off or otherwise visiting nastiness upon them.…