Hard-boiled Detectives
Raymond Chandler and Erle Stanley Gardner are among the authors that popularized a very different style of detective from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's cerebral sleuth Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie's…
HISTORY versus OUR STORY
In an earlier post, I mentioned the frustration of discovering that the history on which an historical novel was based is incorrect. Imagine finding out that virtually everything you have…
Romancing readers
While not all my books qualify as Romances, all so far have contained an element of romance within the story. Perhaps a psychologist would suggest I am looking for a…
NEW POSSIBILITIES
Life is always full of possibility if we open our eyes, minds, and hearts to opportunities. Sometimes they peek at us and wave, sometimes they hit us over the head.…
WILLIAM MORRIS
News From Nowhere And Other Writings tells a whimsical tale of time travel from the 19th century to an unspecified future England in which people live without money, without government,…
DONNA GRANT
Donna Grant's Dark Sword series features steamy paranormal historical novels of the fight between good and evil as waged by Druids versus droughs (mages who give themselves to the devil)…
Who are we?
"Better the lies that exalt us than the truths that demean us." That saying may be well known, and many may agree with it, but it would more accurately be…
What is that?
In reading Sense and Sensibility, I found references I had never seen before. Some were explained in a "Notes" section at the back of the book, others I could guess…
Language in motion
In reading Jane Austen books from my To Be Read pile, it struck me that not only words commonly used have changed―such as her use of twelvemonth instead of year―but…
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A WORLD WITHOUT BOOKS
Books have gotten expensive both to buy and to make―along with paper, food, and everything else as inflation (which is a hidden tax imposed by greedy governments and businesses) rises…