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 …
Time for another spin on the merry-go-round of literature known as Six Degrees of Kool Books. This week, we’ll spin our way from one snowy land to another. From the book, Treasures in the Snow, which Jenelle Schmidt talked about last week to the frozen lands of Russia with The Brothers Karamazov. While I have not had the pleasure of …
Well, I hadn’t planned on writing anything today, but Jenelle Schmidt challenged me to the 777 writing challenge and, like any would-be knight errant in training, I cannot resist a good challenge, can I? Here’s how the 777 writing challenge works. To participate, a writer must go to the 7th page of their current work-in-progress, go to the …
“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.” – Kurt Vonnegut
Today I thought I’d share a little bit about something I’ve been working on recently. It’s a short story (currently about 50 pages) entitled, “A City Called Brazen”. It started out as a science fiction story in my head, but when I sat down to write it, it became a fantasy story instead. It takes place in a …
“Writing is like farm work. Solitary, demanding, and you don’t do it for the money.” – Sibella Giorello
Well, here we go with another stop on my lifelong, roundabout reading tour. Last time I talked about how I began branching out from fantasy into other genres. That process accelerated greatly in college as you may imagine. One of the first courses I took was on Shakespeare’s history plays. Having never been exposed to the Bard’s …
Well, hullo there wanderer, and welcome to another edition of Six Degrees of Kool Books. In this playful little literary trail we hop from one book to the next looking for characters that have similarities and trying to find connections between sometimes very different books. Where else will you find Heidi, Dr. Jekyll, and Robin …
