World Without Pain: The Story of a Search
Bedlam Battle: An Omnibus of the One Thousand Series
After the Fireflood
Caliban’s Children
The Fantasy Book Murders
Opting Out and Other Departures
Sunflower: A Novel
America Redux: Impressions of the United States After Thirty-Five Years Abroad
Fear or Be Feared: Fantasies
Writing as a Metaphysical Experience
Reviews and Reflections on Books, Literature, and Writing
The One Thousand: A Novella
The One Thousand: Book Two: Team of Seven
The One Thousand: Book Three: Black Magic Bus
The One Thousand: Book Four: Deconstructing the Nightmare
After the Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Memoir of Greece
The Misadventures of Mama Kitchen: A Novel
Dark Mirrors: Dystopian Tales
Love Children: A Novel
Painsharing and Other Stories
The Dragon Ticket and Other Stories
Tag Archives: Writing
Life Is Entertaining
This essay came about because of a terrible commercial I’ve been seeing lately on various TV and internet sites. In it, a certain A-list Hollywood actor walks around a city, and as he does, scenes such as those that appear … Continue reading
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Tagged contemplation, meditation, television, Writing
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Book Review: Scratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living – Edited by Manjula Martin
Let’s get one thing clear from the outset: this book is not about what the title says it’s about, what the back blurb says it’s about, or what I thought it was going to be about. Finally, I thought: A … Continue reading
Meditations on Late-Blooming Literary Success
While on the bus on the way to a gathering of local writers, I was somewhat ruefully contemplating the fact that many of my colleagues, although decades younger than me, have reached a level of popular and commercial success that … Continue reading
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Tagged Ernest Hemingway, Jack London, literary success, Philip K Dick, Writing
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Snapping Out of It
We’re going to conduct a literary experiment, you and I. Well, in fact you’re going to play the role of observer and I’m going to conduct it. We’re going to see if I can snap myself out of the post-surgery … Continue reading
An Assessment of 2016
The freelancer’s life is not for the faint of heart, especially if you happen to be a single parent at the same time. Ask J.K. Rowling before Harry Potter took off. You struggle day by day to bring in enough … Continue reading
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Tagged freelance writing, life of a freelancer, publishing, Writing
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Book Review: Traveler of Worlds: Conversations With Robert Silverberg by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro
Robert Silverberg was one of the most important writers of science fiction in the late 1960s and early 1970s, during the so-called new wave, when a number of innovators attempted to eschew the genre’s pulp origins and create more literary … Continue reading
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Tagged New Wave, Robert Silverberg, speculative fiction new wave, Traveler of Worlds, Writing
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Book Review: How to Write Like Tolstoy: A Journey Into the Minds of Our Greatest Writers by Richard Cohen
The title of this book, although catchy, is misleading. Personally, I wouldn’t want to write like Tolstoy anyway. I am perfectly content to write like John Walters. Anyway, the author makes no attempt to teach writing or techniques of writing. … Continue reading
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Tagged books on writing, how to write, How to Write Like Tolstoy, Richard Cohen, Writing
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Mistakes
We all make them as we stumble through life. Sometimes we think we do more wrong than right in our pursuit of excellence. Many people, though, think that books are an exception, that they should be mistake-free. As a reader, … Continue reading
