I’m in the middle of reading two books which have made me think about death — and specifically death in murder mysteries (although neither book is a murder mystery). One book is Across the River and into the Trees by … Continue reading →

Story is “done” I think I’m done with “The Heron Island Mystery,” at least for now. Since I posted the last part of the story, I’ve printed the whole thing out and read it through twice, and I’ve also had … Continue reading →

I thought this article had an interesting premise about TV shows. In brief, it talks about the “dangerous myth — the unwritten rule that the season finale has to be the most ‘exciting’ episode.” The article draws the comparison between … Continue reading →

I enjoyed this article in the New Yorker: “An Elegy for the Landline in Literature.” I’ve dealt with cell phones in my writing by never writing about them. Poof — they don’t exist. Likewise for computers and the web and … Continue reading →