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Horror: A genre doomed to literary hell?
Check out this post over on Pumpjack Press linking to The Guardian Book Blog by Stuart Kelly. “The status of the crime and SF genres is being raised by great modern writers. Why hasn’t horror received the same treatment?” Kelly asks.самостоятельная раскрутка и продвижение сайтов
Lonely together
When you have the loneliest job in the world — writing — it helps to have a partner. Few professional pursuits are as lonely as writing. A lighthouse keeper comes close. Or a hermit seeking enlightenment. Or possibly a toll booth operator. It’s not that writers purposefully cut ourselves off from people, it’s just that…
Self-inflicted research (don’t try this at home)
My one and (hopefully) only experience getting shot By Clark Hays (with a lot of help from Kathleen). In Blood and Whiskey, the second book in The Cowboy and Vampire Thriller Series, there’s plenty of action. Since cowboys are involved, some of that action involves guns (along with romance and cowboy-on-vampire lust, of course). But…
Margin messages: the final phase of a co-authored book
Sometimes, a picture is worth far more than one thousand words. Nerves frayed, the very last edit of the galleys for Blood and Whiskey. seo компании рейтинг
Andy Warhol saved my vision
A detached retina put a serious crimp in my writing and reading. On a recent trip to Washington, DC, with Kathleen (her home town) for a family event, we took in a Warhol exhibit at the Hirshhorn. Called Shadows, it featured 102 silk screen prints of exactly the same scene — a shadowy view from…