by Andrew Gulli | Jul 26, 2022 | Blog Article, Fiction, Reviews, Sherlock
Book Review: More Sherlock Holmes Pastiches By: Chris Chan New entries in the Sherlock Holmes saga have become a subgenre in themselves in crime fiction, and this review will cover some interesting new releases. Liese Sherwood-Fabre has released three books in a...
by Andrew Gulli | Jul 20, 2022 | Authors, Blog Article, Fiction
The Challenges of Storytelling By: Nev March I’m reading Chandler’s The Long Goodbye and just like that, a line had me tearing up. What was the line? A cop tells Philip Marlowe that he’s been wasting his time trying to clear the name of his dead friend Terry Lennox....
by Andrew Gulli | Jul 13, 2022 | Authors, Fiction
Butcher Pen Road by Kris Lackey, published in 2021 The first chapter is excerpted below. Chapter 1 The boy stared at the ground as he walked out of a hackberry stand, toward Bill Maytubby’s black Chickasaw Lighthorse Police cruiser. It was parked at a closed...
by Odin Halvorson | Apr 3, 2022 | Blog Article, Fiction, Reviews
Book Review: Aspects by John M. Ford Tor Books, 496 pages, ISBN: 9781250269041 $26.99 Hardcover $13.99 e-book Available April 5th, 2022 Until Aspects, I had never read a John M. Ford novel. For that omission, my life as a whole: literary, personal, professional, has...
by Odin Halvorson | Mar 14, 2022 | Blog Article, Fiction
River of Ashes by Alexandrea Weis and Lucas Astor Coming August 2, 2022 “A psychological portrait akin to Lord of the Flies.” ~Midwest Book Review SOME TRUTHS ARE BETTER KEPT SECRET. SOME SECRETS ARE BETTER OFF DEAD. Along the banks of the Bogue Falaya River,...
by StrandMag | Jan 5, 2022 | Authors, Blog Article, Fiction
Writers are great shirkers, as everyone suspects and all writers know. Our patron saint is Bartleby of Melville’s Bartleby the Scrivener, whose great refusal, “I would prefer not to,” is our battle cry against the world of workaday drudgery. For why work when...
