Did your occupation as an educator lead to you writing? I grew up in Michigan and came to Canada in the 1960s to attend the University of British Columbia, where I more or less flunked out of my PhD program in Modern Chinese History. This turned out to be a blessing...
Photo by Luriko Yamaguchi on Pexels.com After the horrors of yesterday, we need to escape into story and take care of our mental health. As Lewis Carroll said: When we read a narrative our imagination clicks in to help us visualize the setting, the characters and...
The Ghost Wrangler Gold Winner in the 2024 Global Book Awards by critically acclaimed author, Matthew Hughes In a world of wizards and walled cities, Galabras Nachecko is a necromancer in the seaport metropolis of Golathreon, connecting the living with deceased...
1. What made you want to write your memoirs? My first memoir, Looking for Normal I wrote for my three adult children. They never met my father and he was quite a character–kind, comical and fun loving. I wanted my children to know him. Initially, I began by...
The definition of science fiction is narratives based on imagined future scientific, or technological advances and major social, or environmental changes, which frequently portray space, or time travel and life on other planets. We are used to the main categories of a...
As we are on the precipice of the New Year today, I wanted to say a huge and grateful thanks to all my followers. You make all the effort in maintaining and creating this blog so worthwhile. I am open to suggestions on content, so always let me know if you want me to...
As many of your know I announce my blog schedule for the upcoming year around this time annually. As the past couple of years schedule has worked so well, I will be keeping the Bibliophile's Collective Tuesday and Wordsmith's Collective Thursday into 2025. If...
So today we celebrate Jolabokaflod, which is Iceland’s Yule Book Flood. The name translates to "Christmas Book Flood." The tradition is the giving and receiving of new books, but also the joy of reading them together all day on Christmas Day and drinking hot cocoa. As...
This week we will celebrate National Short Story Day on the 21st - the shortest day of the year! So grab a notebook and pen this winter solstice and enjoy some calm within the pre-Christmas chaos and write a short story. There are no hard and fast rules as to the...