- Too Many Eyes?
With one week left before the deadline to enter the Colorado Gold Literary Awards, we are receiving more entries every day. I’m not here to discuss procrastination (plenty of other posts have already been written about that) but rather what a writer might be doing in those final days before a deadline, be it for…
- From Subtle Unease to Heart-Pounding Thrills: Using Tension in Fiction
For my second novel, Blindspot, I ventured into a new genre, that of psychological suspense. It’s the type of book I gravitate to as a reader and I’m a long-term fan of anything in the mystery realm (I devoured the entire Agatha Christie oeuvre when I was sixteen) How hard could it be? Insert hubris…
- Three Thoughts
The Eclipse Who among us, given a sextant and a supercomputer, could accurately predict the arrival of the next solar eclipse? Yeah, me neither. They (those scientist / astronomer types) started predicting eclipses 300 years ago. I have one question: “how?” But the sight of millions of people moving to the path of totality made…