Writer Tamago

I finished Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor about a month ago. I was stunned. It's taken me about a month to sift through my feelings and impressions. Nnedi has graciously agreed to answer some questions about the book, and I'll post those here when they come. Here's my review. One of the interesting routes [...]

Flash back to the beginning of June. June 1st was Hulk Hercules' book day. It was also the book day of fellow author Jon Gibbs' Fur-Face. Jon is a writer's writer. He runs a very interesting blog about writing, and works hard to help other writers find critique groups at Find a Writing Group. He's [...]

Caroline Stevermer wrote A College of Magics in 1994, so I'm a little behind the curve on reading it. My only defense is that in 1994, I started working on my doctorate in Second Language Writing, so I missed a chunk of material coming out from then until around 2001. I enjoyed Stevermer and Wrede's [...]

It's no secret that I've sung Jim C. Hines' praises before on this site. Last year when we were lucky enough to have Jim as our author GOH at Icon, I went so far in a book group discussion to call Jim's Goblin series an every man novel. No, I'm not going to 'splain that [...]