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Poem from Slate: Nan Cohen
Image source: http://thisgurllovesjune.blogspot.com This week’s featured poem from Slate is entitled The Fear of the Dark and is written by Nan Cohen. As always, I would encourage you to check out this...
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Mark’s Awesome Word of the Week
qualia Suppose that meet a Martian. This Martian has spent its entire life drifting in the voids of space, always moving in a straight line (and having a fine old time doing it). Now, you start...
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Fictional Friday: Karen Miller’s Mages
Courtesy tumbler.com In the wake of the popular Harry Potter series, I became obsessed with sorcerers. Karen Miller’s Kingmaker, Kingbreaker universe takes on a new view of the use of magic in an...
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Editor’s Notes #111
Image source: http://editorialiste.blogspot.com Hello readers and welcome to this week’s editor’s notebook round-up! I hope you enjoyed this very full week of posts here at the Jet Fuel Review blog....
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Writing Advice: Flying Blind
http://www.flickr.com/jjpacres/ When writing a compelling story, you want your readers to be constantly guessing as to how it might end, and how everything will be resolved. That curiosity is what...
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Discuss: Your Book Pile
http://bookriot.com The contents of your room say a lot about who you are as a person. Whether it’s neat and tidy or more messy and scattered, how you organize your own space can give an insight into...
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Books on Screen: Harry Potter
Courtesy of pricepar.com One of the most iconic books on screen adaptations has to be the Harry Potter series. After the first book, I was immediately hooked on the series. The concept was just so...
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Poem from Slate: “Creation Myth”
Image source: http://thisgurllovesjune.blogspot.com This week’s featured poem from Slate is entitled Creation Myth and is written by Josh Kalscheur. As always, I’d like to encourage you to click the...
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Bibliophilia: Dogtown & the Fight Against Gravity
A “Babson Boulder” in Dogtown There’s a small section of Cape Ann Massachusetts that the locals refer to as Dogtown but was once known as the Common Settlement. It was originally settled by farmers...
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Liz’s News of the Books
http://squidoo.com Wherefore art though, Juliet, in the New York Review of Books? What kind of problem affects 50% of the writing population? I’ll tell you. It’s that women are criminally...
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Fictional Friday: Jim Butcher
Courtesy jim-butcher.com Last week, I wrote about one of my favorite lesser-known authors Karen Miller. Another author that I really like that writes in the same vein is Jim Butcher. He’s best known...
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Editor’s Notes #112
Image source: http://editorialiste.blogspot.com Welcome, readers, to this week’s wrap-up post. First, a quick bit of business about the Jet Fuel Review. Though your window of opportunity is closing,...
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Writing Advice: Protect Yourself
http://thegracefuldoe.files. wordpress.com For the most part, these writing advice posts focus on practices you should put in place when actually writing. But there is other advice that writers could...
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Mike’s Horror Blog: “Heat”
http://www.flickr.com/gregoryjordan Steve Rasnic Tem’s “Heat” is a story of pain and loss, where tragedy begets obsession. The main character is Sandra, an average woman that lost her husband and son...
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Poem from Slate: “Late at Night”
Image source: http://thisgurllovesjune.blogspot.com This week’s featured poem from Slate is entitled Late at Night, written by Gail Mazur. As you know by now, Slate does a really awesome thing by...
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Bigger Than Life: It Lurks Within Us!
Bigger Than Life Whenever I’m watching a film I love being able to sense the moment when it turns from entertaining to outright enthralling. I love a film that will take a moment to telegraph Margo...
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Mark’s Awesome Word of the Week
moot It is raining very lightly, outside (where it usually rains). Come to think of it, it may not be raining at all—it’s just a bit wet, still, from the rain that’s been falling all morning. Inside,...
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StumbleUpon Ekphrastic: Alice and Wonderland
Gloria Scholik submitted on March 24, 2011 I can honestly admit to my audience, regarding this blog, that my writing went into a form of hibernation I still have yet to understand. I believe there were...
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Fictional Friday: Grimm’s Tales
Courtesy tumblr.com Some of the most iconic stories come from the Grimm brothers, Wilhelm and Jacob. The ones that most people have heard of include “Cinderella,” “Rapunzel,” “Hansel and Gretel,”...
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Sunday Serial: Sherlock Holmes “A Case of Identity, and Zombies”
Welcome to a new blog! This blog is my spring and summer serial project. The inspiration was, of course, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes series. I picked the “The Case of Identity” as my first...
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