Over at the Goodreads Summer of Long Knives discussion thread, my reader Lilo is telling us all about a book called Pfaffenhofen unterm Hakenkreuz (Pfaffenhoffen under the Twisted Cross.),
Our subject will be the lives of women in Nazi Germany during the 1930s, and the way those lives are reflected in Summer of Long Knives.
I use Grammarly for proofreading because to err may be human, but who the hell is satisfied with being human? The story twist is an ancient art,
I understand I’ve come to this a bit late, but a cold kept me under covers and (mostly) off computers earlier this week. Judging from
Scott Southard, keeper of a blog of literary musings, wrote a humorous post on literary genres, and the factionalism they encourage, that got me thinking
I’ve been doing a lot of straight history on the blog over the last month or so, but when it came to Hitler, I saw
My books, and my writing in general, tends to go to dark places. Dismantle the Sun was all about cancer and loss. Summer of Long Knives is
Of Pixar’s 22 rules of storytelling–which might better be understood as “22 questions and exercises that improve your storytelling odds” I get the biggest kick
Literary fiction writers don’t usually have to do quite as much world building as their science fiction and fantasy colleagues. We work mostly with existing
Let’s start with V.S. Naipaul, Nobel Laureate of 2001: I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it