As promised in my recent Six Degrees post, here is a short review of the Worm Ouroboros by E.R. Eddison. Hope you enjoy it. This book is brilliant, a literary feast that makes modern works seem wanting in their command of the English language. It is written in Jacobian english and is highly stylized, requiring …
After a brief hiatus, it’s time to pick up again on our thousand foot survey of my experiences as a reader. Last time I shared some details about my reading during college. Now we’re going to move beyond that into what I tend to think of as my “non-fiction” years. It’s not that I read no fiction during …
I love writing, but some days it’s pretty hard. Ok, most days. And this little metaphor kind of popped into my head recently. It’s one way to look at writing. Not the only way, but I’ll bet many of my fellow authors can relate. Ever meet a guy selling water in a rain storm? Writing is …
Another mid-week update and the biggest news is that the site is now mobile friendly. I had thought this would require a lot of effort and probably a retheming of the site, but I did a little backend work on Monday and voila, the mobile site was born. Apparently Google is going to penalize you in the …
Heigh ho, heigh ho, it’s off to Six Degrees we go! This week we once again hop from book to book and character to character as the mysterious, circuitous path known as Six Degrees of Kool Books continues. In the last link in the chain, Jenelle Schmidt introduced us to the multi-volume, history spanning world of …
Just a quick update today. I’ve been keeping a pretty steady pace on the writing front. I’ve finished the second draft for my 50 page fantasy short story Brazen and I’m a quarter of the way through the second draft for my upcoming fantasy novel The Last Motley. This book was actually written two years ago, but I …
Today I am pleased to introduce to my readers Julie Gilbert, author of multiple novels, many of which are “imaginative” fiction as I like to call it. She and I are both members of an online group of authors committed to writing “clean” books, i.e.those which focus on the good, the true, and the beautiful. …
I’m excited to bring you another Nightstand Books post this month. Especially excited this time because I’ve got books to share this month that I am actually currently reading! While both Phantastes and the Hobbit qualify as “old” books for me, meaning that I’ve already read them before, I recently picked them up again and this …
