May 1, 2023 | Interviews Features and Reviews
Happy May 1st! I’ve written extensively in the past about modern May 1st celebrations in Greece, Anthesteria and Thergelia, and the International Workers’ Day of May and the Haymarket Affair. So, instead of writing about May 1st, I thought I’d share today...
Jan 15, 2023 | Interviews Features and Reviews
Novelist Pia Manning is one of the authors who have a short story in the soon-to-be-published anthology The Haunted Train: Creepy Tales from the Railways. Today, she tells us about her childhood memories of trains, creepy experiences, and writing. What fascinates...
Jan 13, 2023 | Interviews Features and Reviews
Gothic short story author R.J. Meldrum is one of the writers featured in the anthology The Haunted Train: Creepy Tales from the Railways. He joins us to talk about train journeys, reading, and writing. What’s the weirdest experience you’ve ever had on a train? The...
Nov 4, 2022 | Interviews Features and Reviews, Quora
I had been following Nelson McKeeby on Quora for a while before finding out that he’s a fellow author! He has now published On Other Shores, the first book in his Tea Merchants series. You can find him on Prince of Cats. On Other Shores Despite being rogue and a...
Aug 10, 2022 | Interviews Features and Reviews
Christine Robinson is a long-time friend of this blog (and my work). Her historical fiction book, Three Years of Her Life, has now been released on Amazon. Three Years of Her Life is her debut historical fiction book, inspired by Grandfather Gustav F. Heim’s...
Jun 22, 2022 | Interviews Features and Reviews
AI software like LaMDA is pretty impressive but we’ve been using AI for years without even realizing it. One perfect example of this is OCR (Optical Character Recognition) tools that let us digitize printed documents. While there’s something to be said...
Apr 5, 2022 | Interviews Features and Reviews
This is a guest post by Rayne Hall. You may know Rayne from her successful Writer’s Craft series. And you may remember how we wrote together Copywriting: Get Paid to Write Promotional Texts. Rayne is also the author of Storm Dancer, one of the finest fantasy...
Feb 3, 2022 | Interviews Features and Reviews
Remember my interview with Pamela Turner, one of the authors of Among the Headstones, an anthology of Gothic horror stories? Today, I’m interviewing Tylluan Penry, another one of the anthology’s authors. Interview with Tylluan Penry Hi Tylluan, it’s great...
Jan 7, 2022 | Interviews Features and Reviews
You may remember Rayne Hall from our recent collaboration: we wrote together a book on Copy Writing. Now, Rayne has edited an anthology of graveyard tales called, appropriately enough, Among The Headstones: Creepy Tales from the Graveyard. For today’s post, I...
Oct 19, 2021 | Interviews Features and Reviews
You may remember how my Greek edition of Whisker Smile, published by Patakis Publishers, has won the prestigious IBBY award for illustration. Today I have 5 of my favorite children’s illustrators, selected from a post by Domestika. Maurice Sendak Where The Wild...
