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Sweet Reads
I read like the proverbial kid in a candy store, and since Halloween candy has taken over much available freezer space in our house, candy, like good books, calls to me. Hmm, Snickers, Peanut M&Ms, Tootsie Roll? Nah, I’m full up on sugary stuff. But never full up on reading, never. So much to choose…
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Is There Weather in This Book?
Mark Twain said, “Nothing breaks up an author’s progress like having to stop every few pages to fuss-up the weather. Thus it is plain that persistent intrusions of weather are bad for both reader and author.” Dare I disagree with the famous curmudgeon? What about The Perfect Storm? Snoopy’s opening line: “It was a dark…
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Eden to Everlasting
Poetry readings come in several flavors–minty, spicy, meaty. Last evening the Third Thursday reading at Caribou Coffee in Westminster CO was of the more nourishing variety. The feature reader was Seth, that’s it, Seth. He spoke for about half of his allotted twenty minutes about the background of his new book, A Black Odyssey. I’ve been hearing…
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Questions from Other Worlds
Margaret Atwood has a wonderful book out, In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination. Read it and learn. Wisely, Atwood doesn’t pretend to know everything about fiction, but one question she raises intrigues and frustrates me. Just what is sci-fi? I’ve just finished revising a novel that I’m not comfortable calling science fiction because…
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Maintaining Order among Rioting Poems
Some of you will perhaps recall that I spent the summer writing fiction. While my back was turned, poetry ran amok, took to the streets demanding pay raises and family-leave benefits. So, I sat down this morning to file a new poem and a couple of revisions. And found chaos in the file box and…
Karen Douglass, Author 