We’re mixing things up a little today. I’d been meaning to feature my friend and colleague Ethan Dreilinger on this blog to discuss his first novel, Out of the Dust, which he self-published last June. But that wascally wabbit went ahead and published his second novel in October, before I had the chance, making him, [...]
Archive for February, 2012
Writing Tip #72
Posted in Writing Tips, tagged Academy Award, Movies, Oscars on February 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
And the Oscar goes to… As I cobble together this week’s writing tip, I’m watching the tail end of the Academy Awards, during which a slew of winners got up onto that stage and said it was because they followed their childhood dreams that they were standing there tonight and, despite all the odds, became [...]
The Results Are In! Your Favorite Genre Fiction Is…
Posted in Poll, tagged Crime fiction, Fantasy, Fantasy and Science Fiction, Fiction, Genre fiction, Literary fiction, Mystery fiction, science fiction on February 17, 2012 | 5 Comments »
Fantasy, baby! According to our informal little survey, where we asked you to vote for your favorite genre fiction, Fantasy led the way with 23 percent of votes. All week long, Fantasy and Science Fiction were neck and neck until Fantasy pulled ahead in the final days of the week-long poll. The complete results are [...]
Writing Tip #70
Posted in Grammar, Writing Tips, tagged Grammar, Punctuation, Ramen, Semicolon, writing on February 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Demystifying the semicolon. My newly crowned teenager said to me last week: “Mom, I just don’t get when to use the semicolon.” “Never fear,” I said to her (yes, I actually said that). “The semicolon is actually a pretty easy punctuation concept to understand.” And it is, as hoity-toity as the darn thing seems. Think [...]
What is your favorite genre fiction?
Posted in Uncategorized on February 10, 2012 | 10 Comments »
The terrific response to this week’s discussion of fantasy fiction has got me thinking… What kind of genre fiction is most popular? What kinds of books do most people like to read? Please take a moment to vote (you can only vote once, so make it a good one!), and I will share the results [...]
Sometimes a Fantasy II
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 1Q84, Haruki Murakami, Hofstra University, Japan, Murakami, New York Times Magazine, Philip Gabriel, United States on February 9, 2012 | 4 Comments »
A quick addendum to yesterday’s post: I am now reading a New York Times Magazine article on Haruki Murakami from last fall (as you can see, I’m behind on my reading…). Murakami’s latest, 1Q84, is on my reading list, and I have read a few of his short stories in The Elephant Vanishes, which he [...]
Sometimes a Fantasy
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged fantasy fiction, Fiction, Graduate school, Olivia Boler, Stephenie Meyer, Twilight on February 8, 2012 | 4 Comments »
Chatting with yesterday’s featured author Olivia Boler brought back a very vivid memory of graduate school. Olivia told me, “I have an MA from the UC Davis Creative Writing Program, and we were pretty much told by our professors that genre fiction, particularly science fiction and fantasy, isn’t real literature.” I suddenly remembered the dejected [...]
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