By Siggy Buckley Siggy Buckley’s newest book is launching this month, accompanied by a blog tour. It’s an exciting event because this is a book that will turn your preconceptions upside down. So what was I doing on an Irish farm? I was a German city girl and a high school teacher. My then-husband — […]
That’s what Russell Blake, author of Geronimo Beach and other action novels, asked in his guest blog post on the World Literary Café. When is everyone’s favourite passtime in page form too much, whatever that is? I’ll admit I don’t read bodice rippers or erotica, so that’s not what I’m talking about. I’m asking the […]
If you haven’t yet heard of the force of literature named Russell Blake, crawl out from under that rock and check out his website and pages on Smashwords, Barnes and Noble, Kobo, Amazon and the other usual e-book sellers. It’s time to be brought up to speed. Blake writes a new novel every couple of months. […]
“The skunk in the back yard last night stunk, didn’t it?” “No, it stank.” Or is stunk right? What about this one: “The ship sunk during the storm last night”? Is that correct? English. It can be beautiful, powerful, inspiring. It can also be maddeningly confusing and inconsistent. There are so many inconsistencies to trip […]
By Alan McDermott Alan McDermott, the master of the firefight, has done it again. Just when you think he could not top the tension, pace and world-shattering implications of his plots, he has raised the bar again with his fifth Tom Gray book, Gray Vengeance. Sometimes I wonder if Tom Gray isn’t getting tired of saving […]
Here’s something that bugs me: sentences constructed as “this needs to happen.” For example, on a news report about the lack of mental health care workers in Nunavut, the journalist said “more nurses need to be hired in Nunavut.” That’s obviously false. Maybe nurses do need to be hired. Professionals need jobs. But that’s not […]
A few years ago, a group of blogs hosted something akin to a blog tour called Six Sentence Sunday, posting six sentences from their books. I’ve decided to revive that, rerunning some samples on my new blog. This sample comes from my first novel, The Bones of the Earth. Let me know what you think in […]