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Sunday Serial: Sherlock Holmes “A Case of Identity and Zombies”
Part Six “Your Master?” Sherlock interjected calmly, “Your second Master, surely, since the clan name is different from your own Mistress.” Taking no offense to the observation, she agreed, “Yes, my...
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Editor’s Notes #118
Image source: http://editorialiste.blogspot.com Welcome, blog readers, to this week’s round up of posts! Before we get to that, though, I’d like to remind you all that the launch of the Jet Fuel...
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Writing Advice: Art of Editing
http://copyblogger.com Let’s face it, folks. Editing is one of the hardest things about writing. Sure, it can be tough to sit in front of a blank page and get started, but I think it’s even tougher to...
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Discuss: Bookstore Love
http://nbcnews.com For most of my teenage years, Borders was my favorite bookstore of all time. This is where I attended the midnight release of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and it’s where...
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Poem from Slate: “Distant Wants”
Image source: http://thisgurllovesjune.blogspot.com Good morning, blog readers! This week’s featured poem from Slate is entitled Distant Wants and it’s written by Jeffrey Skinner. As always, Slate...
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Goke, Body Snatcher From Hell
Goke, Body Snatcher From Hell In 1956 Don Siegel’s science fiction masterpiece Invasion of the Body Snatchers was released to much acclaim. Turning the vague yet omnipresent paranoia of the Cold War...
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Liz’s News of the Books
http://squidoo.com The Women and Wikipedia This always seems to happen–the literary world is as still as a pond, and then right as I start panicking and amassing my ways of insulting various authors of...
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Fictional Friday: Lemony Snicket
Courtesy of wikipedia.org One of the biggest series I remember from my high school days (besides Harry Potter) had to be Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events. Lemony Snicket is the pen name...
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Sunday Serial: Sherlock Holmes “A Case of Identity and Zombie”
Part Seven The insides had been stripped out and the watch was more like a charm box in which this angel resided. A mesh covering kept the object from falling out of its casing, from how it was all...
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Editor’s Notes #119
Image source: http://editorialiste.blogspot.com Hello, blog readers, and welcome to this week’s round-up of the past week’s posts. Before we get to that, though, I’d like to congratulate the Jet Fuel...
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Writing Advice: Writing with a Job
http://writeplacewritetime.tumblr.com Let’s face it, folks. For most of us, our writing does not support us fully. In order to live actual lives full of food and, you know, shelter, we need to work...
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Discuss: Comfort Reading
http://barnesandnoble.com Okay, picture this. You’ve woken up in the middle of the night and your phone tells you it’s 2:00 am. Try as you might, you cannot get back to sleep. You know you have school,...
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Horror Blog: “The Roaches”
http://tagshadow.com Thomas M. Disch’s “The Roaches” is a darkly humorous tale that reminds me of the movie Willard. The story is about Marcia Kenwell, who has recently arrived in New York to seek out...
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Fictional Friday: Manga
Courtesy of tumblr.com One of the most well known comic styles has to be the Japanese tradition of manga, which was developed in the late 19th century. Manga is also one of the best examples of a...
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Sunday Serial: Sherlock Holmes “A Case of Identity and Zombies”
Part Eight Obviously the concern of the whole outweighed any individuals but she said her worry aloud, “It was the time that Master Windibank happened to cross by our meeting place. He glanced in our...
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Editor’s Notes #120
Image source: http://editorialiste.blogspot.com Hello, blog readers! This week was a bit of a quiet one, but we did have some great posts. Before we get started, I just wanted to remind you to check...
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Writing Advice: Be Different
http://howtowriteanessays. wordpress.com You open up a book and it begins with a prologue. Or it doesn’t. Maybe it just starts right off with a chapter and paragraph after paragraph of story. But what...
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Discuss: Shelving Techniques
http://www.isbn-books.info So, I’m guessing that we all have some bookshelves in our rooms, right? And I’m also guessing that these shelves are pretty important to you. I know that my two shelves are...
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Poem from Slate: Terri Witek
Image source: http://thisgurllovesjune.blogspot.com This week’s featured poem from Slate is entitled Tomorrow Night, Shake Me and is written by Terri Witek. As always, I want to encourage all of the...
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Baxter: The Anti-Dog Movie
Baxter’s poster I’m a dog movie apologist. Sure, they’re mostly vapid fluff but then again so are dogs. The thing about dog movies is that they all follow the same story: person obtains dog, dog...
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