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Liz’s News of the Books
http://squidoo.com This Article Will Not Be Retracted These literary controversies keep creeping closer and closer to me. While maintaining a professional smokescreen about the situation, let me just...
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Sunday Serial: Sherlock Holmes “A Case of Identity and Zombies”
Part Nine “Very likely not,” agreed Sherlock, “the young Mistress was very decidedly carried away, and having quite made up her mind that her Master was away on patrols, just more frequently than...
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Editor’s Notes #121
Image source: http://editorialiste.blogspot.com Hello, blog readers, and welcome to this week’s round-up of posts on the Jet Fuel blog! Firstly, I’d like to remind you all about the Spring 2013 issue...
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Writing Advice: Lose Track of Time
http://thislittleblog.com At times, writing can be an all-consuming practice. Hours can disappear quite easily if you’re working hard on a passage and don’t stop to eat or say hello to family members....
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Discuss: Gender & Book Covers
http://en.wikipedia.org Recently the Young Adult author Maureen Johnson launched this amazing challenge on her Tumblr. The challenge was called “Coverflip” and it centered on messages she sometimes...
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Poem from Slate: “How to Steal the Laptop of Your Childhood Nemesis”
Image source: http://thisgurllovesjune.blogspot.com This week’s poem from Slate is entitled, rather interestingly, How to Steal the Laptop of Your Childhood Nemesis, and it is written by poet Eric...
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Sunday Serial: Sherlock Holmes “A Case of Identity and Zombies”
Part Ten – The End As we walked to the stools again, Sherlock picked up another blade and held it to the flames. Cleaning the air of the cold-blooded-scoundrel’s aroma with the stench of rotting flesh...
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Editor’s Notes #122
Image source: http://editorialiste.blogspot.com Welcome, blog readers! This week was another quiet one here at the blog as our bloggers begin to enjoy their summer holidays. But I’d still like to do a...
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Writing Advice: Avoid All Clichés?
http://wikihow.com I’m sure you’ve heard this writing advice before, but it always bears repeating: you should really avoid clichés I’m certain that if you have ever taken a Creative Writing course,...
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Discuss: Readers & Their Books
http://litstack.com Hello, blog readers! Once again, I must make an assumption about all of you. I’m guessing that you’re all pretty big readers. Why else would you be following the blog of a literary...
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Editor’s Notes #123
Image source: http://editorialiste.blogspot.com Greetings, blog readers! I want to apologize, firstly, for the lack of posts here last week. I was on vacation in the awesome locale of New York City and...
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Writing Advice: Be Yourself
http://shelleymartinfiction.com Well, it turns out that one of the paramount pieces of advice when it comes to writing is the same as advice that you get for simply living: be yourself! One of the main...
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Discuss: Awesome Literary Things
http://www.contemporist.com/ Bookcase Staircase/Slide Well, folks. Sometimes it’s a Tuesday and you’re feeling a bit ill and you need something fun to perk up your day. And besides, it’s been quite a...
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Slate Poem: “The Escape Artist”
Image source: http://thisgurllovesjune.blogspot.com This week’s featured poem from Slate is entitled The Escape Artist and it’s written by David Lehman. As always, here is a friendly reminder that...
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Writing Advice: Story Structure
http://rwtverio.ncte.org There are many bumps along the way when you embark on a writing journey. Of course, I don’t have to tell you this. If you’ve ever attempted to write anything, you will know...
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Discuss: Summer Reading
http://politics-prose.com Generally, I try to read all year round. I always have at least one book going (sometimes two) and it actually terrifies me to not have something lined up for when I finish...
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Poem from Slate: “This Horse”
Image source: http://thisgurllovesjune.blogspot.com This week’s featured poem from Slate is entitled This Horse and it’s written by Rebekah Stout. As always, I’d recommend heading over to the Slate...
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Bill Forsyth’s Comfort and Joy
Comfort and Joy poster One night, a few summers ago, when it was too hot to sleep I remember lying in my bed and listening to the heat drive one of my neighbors insane. It was around two in the morning...
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Writing Advice: In the Headlights
http://habithacker.com Last week I posted about outlining and the many different ways to execute that planning mechanism. As I concluded in the post, the way you outline really depends on you, your...
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Discuss: Summer Reading Redux
http://waltham.lib.ma.us A couple of weeks ago I did a post about summer reading. I had originally intended for it to be all about the “summer blockbuster” books that are coming out this year, but it...
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