The Book Blog

This year I read about 145 books— very close to last year's 140. The best book of the year was I.J. Kay's _Mountains of the Moon_. I...

Of course, is that adding all those elements of disaster (person rejected, drought imperils the farm, government oppression, tornado), are s...

Can't write seriously, that is. Cannot use in literary fiction (the Serious Stuff). Can use only in satire or humor or tragedy. I hate t...

About time to get back to this, don'tcha think, o two or three followers of this mighty blog? By the way, and in keeping with the idea t...

I belong to a Facebook community that is mostly populated by self-published writers. The major problem they have with their books seems to b...

I’ve been pondering writing, as I am wont to do. More so because the Santa Barbara Writers Conference just happened a month ago. Going to t...