Joanna Bourne

On this lovely afternoon I've been thinking about immortality ... not so much as a personal preference, but the way it's presented i...

 A casual, wandering, interesting interview with Gaiman that touches on his writing methods. Find it here in a small review of American God...

I came across this in my reading.  The article considers, "How does the hero confront violence without becoming violent themself?...

I’ve been thinking about “The Setting as Protagonist.” That is, when setting acts in the story. When it has its own narrative. Fr'ins...

I was thinking the other day about how we create characters, since I'm trying to do some of that.   What are the ingredients we knead an...

Netflix is showing two Rurouni Kenshin flicks. The first, Ruroumi Kenshin: The Beginning , gives us interesting plotting, subtle acting, com...

An exciting weekend in which I set up my external hard drive. On a Mac this means buying a black plastic box the size of a good novel, fiddl...

I was talking to a friend who is looking at the final stages of her Southern Gothic manuscript. She says, kinda doubtful, "What do I do...

Here's the publication order of the six books of the Spymaster Fictive Universe. It's a perfectly fine order to read them ...

--> tl:dr summary: Don’t say stuff twice. I don't know about you, but I do this all the time. My final editing is f...

  There are folks who get the words right the first time they lay them down. I am not one of those people. Think of it as shoot...