Terrible Beer and Awful Employers –Strandberg’s Motivation for Tarot Card Killer
Back in 2009 I was sitting in my Chinese dorm room drinking my umpteenth bottle of Qingdao, perhaps the worst beer known to man. Yeah, I taught English in China.…
Back in 2009 I was sitting in my Chinese dorm room drinking my umpteenth bottle of Qingdao, perhaps the worst beer known to man. Yeah, I taught English in China.…
Choose the Voice of Sydney Rye Sydney Rye is coming to Audio and we need your help picking the narrator! Emily Kimelman's “Sydney Rye” series features a strong female protagonist…
When people hear about the bad side of love, they think abuse or unrequited love. Parkinson’s scorched earth policy taught me that love has other dark sides. I live in…
A while ago, I read someone’s manuscript describing the protagonist being dive-bombed and pecked by a crow. The mood promised shades of Hitchcock’s The Birds until the medics arrived. They…
In a word, balloons. I’m referring to “Familiar Stranger,” which takes up two-thirds of the novella. Like me, the protag Cassandra can’t pass a gift shop without stopping in to…
During the last month, I’ve been proofing two manuscripts for NTD books and editing short stories that will appear in Night to Dawn magazine. I prefer Word’s tracking feature, which…