My favorite fictional character is…
By Rebecca Au
In C.S. Lewis’s Till We Have Faces, the princess Orual sees her beloved sister taken from her, and suffers a transformation by which she learns to love well. This retelling of a Greek myth is particularly resonant to me because Orual’s questions about who to trust and where to find identity parallel my own. Orual, […]
My favorite fictional character is…
By Pierre Comtois
Francis X. Gordon aka El Borak! This is a character invented by pulp meister Robert E. Howard (creator of Conan). Ever since grade school I’ve been interested in history with the British Empire and its little wars all over the world, especially exotic India and other places in the middle and far east, just the […]
My favorite fictional character is…
By Elisabeth Wolfe
Asking me to pick a favorite fictional character is like asking me to pick a favorite book. How do I choose, especially among my favorite teams? Whom do I choose: Frodo Baggins, Aragorn Elessar, Faramir, Gandalf, Sam Gamgee, Merry Brandybuck, Pippin Took? Hercule Poirot? Jane Marple? Tommy and Tuppence Beresford? King Arthur? John Sheppard, Rodney […]
New Girlfriend–from the Journal of Melvin P. Wurster
By Christopher Bunn
Nov 3. Went drinking with the boys after work. Plenty of bars to choose from in Washington DC. Sometimes you can see one of the superstars like Henry Waxman or Joe Biden or Charles Schumer. They are real men! Makes me tingle all over to think I have the same employer as they do. The […]
No time to say goodbye, Hello!
By Elisabeth Wolfe
In hindsight, trying to finish four major sewing projects, three large calligraphy pieces, two presentation boards, and a (partridge in a pear tree) novella in the space of three months was… er… overambitious. BUT I did finish the book and one of the sewing projects, published a second book, and made significant headway on the […]
Oh No! I Missed the Academy Awards?
By Erich Forschler
I cruised by my facebook feed this morning and read the comments from friends who had watched some awards ceremony last night. And I’m all like, "Aw, man! I missed it!" My coffee didn’t even taste right after I knew that I had wasted my Sunday evening by NOT watching something about giving millionaires trophies. […]
Wilkinson Kickstarter
By Vishnu Lorax
Last summer, I met Tom Wilkinson, an art photographer who lives in Brooklyn and sports a hipster beard. His wife Alissa was a professor of mine. I’ve since spent hours at their apartment, poring over Tom’s graphic novel collection (including Sandman, Fables, Unwritten, and much much more), playing Mass Effect and watching Buffy on their […]
What Your Character’s Handgun Says About Them #1: An Introduction
By Stephen McDonald
If you write enough mysteries, thrillers, or horror novels, chances are one of your main characters is at some point going to have their fingers wrap around a handgun. Whenever this happens, it offers two main ways to give insight into your protagonist. <b>Two Quick Ways the Weapon Can Be Revealing</b> The first characterization opportunity […]
The Hawks of Kamalon by Michael Reisig
By Carol Kean
In the tradition of Robert Heinlein, The Magnificent Seven, and the glory of the first Star Wars movie, this novel delivers an unwilling team of heroes called to fight on behalf of an alien civilization in another galaxy. The logistics of how these men in their planes are pulled to another planet are not what […]
The Fiction of a Better Tomorrow
By Stephen McDonald
A ruling class and its courtiers living well in the capitol district as the outer provinces commoner struggles. The panopticon surveillance of citizens. A state so monstrously indifferent it’s ruined the healthcare of millions. A feral bureaucracy waging a shadow war against its master regime’s enemies. And a supposedly free people, themselves either so inattentive […]
