I began reading Gae-Lynn Woods’ The Devil of Light in January, at about the same time I started watching True Detective on HBO, the gritty series starring Woodie Harrelson and Matthew MacConaughey, and was immediately struck by the similarities between the two stories. Both stories feature victims of ritual murders, corpses found in bizarre […]
Image: zoetnet via Flickr/Creative Common In my continuing quest to blow your minds, I again present three very different authors whose answers to the same questions may surprise you. Sydney Landon is a New York Times bestseller-listed author of romances, including the Danvers series; David C. Cassidy’s books, including Velvet Rain and Fosgate’s […]
Guest post by David Small, the Wandering Promoter This Monday blog features guest blogger David Small, author, international hockey coach and entrepreneur. His new book, The Wandering Leader, launched on Valentine’s Day and is already climbing the Amazon bestseller lists in non-fiction. David hails from Kenora, Ontario — I town I spent many summer weeks […]
Creative Commons/Flickr In the sporadic series where I ask bestselling authors about their reading habits and inspiration, I again turn to two very different authors. David Vinjamuri is the author of bestselling military thrillers Binder and Operator, as well as two books of non-fiction. It’s hard to categorize Terry Tyler’s writing other than as “contemporary […]
Image from HBO’s True Detective opening I know, it’s been more than a week since the conclusion of this innovative show aired. But I’ll argue that I have let my impression process in the back of my mind, and now I’m ready to make a more carefully considered evaluation. True Detective, in case you missed […]
Bestseller Toby Neal has just launched her sixth Lei Crime novel. I asked her how she has changed as an author since she launched the first novel, Blood Orchids, in 2011. I know my characters so well now that dialogue really flows—banter between Lei and her partner, Pono, interdepartmental meetings with Captain Omura, therapeutic phone […]
Whenever I watch TV shows like Downton Abbey, or movies like The Remains of the Day, stories that centre around servants in a thankfully extinct era, I am always struck by the attitudes of the servant class — the way that they reinforce their own subjugation, partly because it allows them to abuse those lower […]