I apologize for being negligent in my posts leading up to NaNoWriMo. However, I am gearing up to start NaNoWriMo (in fact, I currently have 1349 words — how about you?). I am going to try my darndest to have posts throughout the month with encouragement Read More
What sets apart Z: Zombie Stories is the population it focuses on. Instead of the adults, who are often cast as the victors and victims during the zombie apocalypse, this book is all about the younger crowd. What is it like to come of age while zombies Read More
I can't even begin to tell you how excited I was to find this year's Ripley's book in my mailbox. It wasn't just me either. My husband and eight year old daughter were thrilled too. We all loved last year's edition, and this year's Strikingly True does Read More
Draw the curtains, lock the doors, and light the candles. It's time to give in to all seven of the deadliest sins. It's time for A Miscellany of Murder. The Monday Murder Club has put together a tome of trivia, quizzes and real life tales meant to Read More
Geek Girls Unite is a coffee table must in the home of any girl who has ever felt the need to have Daria marathons, thinks Coachella is the only place she’ll ever find love, or parades around quoting her Tina Fey handbook. Read More
Now that we know what NaNoWriMo is, we're at the perfect opportunity to start thinking about an idea for our stories. If you already have an idea, some of these could just be fun writing exercises to practice getting a certain amount of words a day. Read More
Max Allan Collins has been writing novels, screenplays, and comics since 1973. When his friend Mickey Spillane died in 2006, Collins was given some of Spillane’s incomplete novels to finish, including The Consummata. I had the opportunity to have an Read More
The Consummata is the sequel to 1967’s The Delta Factor. Spillane gave the unfinished manuscript to his friend, Max Allan Collins, hoping that they could do something with it later. Sadly, Spillane died in 2006. Collins finished this novel (and others Read More
NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month, is going to be starting the 1st of November. If it starts in a month, why am I talking about it now? Well, because this is the best time you'll have to A) Learn about NaNoWriMo if you haven't before and/or B) Read More
Before reading this book, I thought of myself as a misanthrope. Shopping, for example, always finds me grumbling under my breath at the idiots who park their carts in the middle of the aisle then stand there for ten minutes trying to decide whether to Read More
We have just started the seventh season of Supernatural, but fans can also take a look back at the year that was with the new Supernatural: The Official Companion: Season 6 out this week. Filled with behind-the-scenes tidbits, trivia, and further Read More
