The Haunting of Hill House will scare the pants off you. It scares me. It scares Neil Gaiman. It scares Stephen King. Need I continue? It’s a super creepy haunted house story and I want to warn you, but I also don’t want to ruin the fun. Just remember, it’s not real. Probably. Keep the lights on, just in case. The Haunting of Hill House was published in 1959 and
Australian author, Sally Hepworth, got the idea for her latest novel when her real-life mother-in-law was living with her for six weeks. Hepworth swears that it’s a complete coincidence that the book is a murder mystery with the mother-in-law as the victim. (We’ll take her word for that, shall we?) It’s not your average whodunnit, however. This story flashes backward and forward in time and is told from two points
When people tell me that they wish they had my life, one of the things they long for is the freedom to set their own schedule; to work when, where and how they want. The funny thing about being a writer is that I’m on the job 24/7. I do things that non-writers would recognize as work—answering email, typing on the laptop, taking meetings and so on. But sitting quietly
Daisy Jones & The Six is a love story involving the lead musicians of a fictional 1970s American rock band, but it’s far from a typical love story. Author Taylor Jenkins Reid has innovated the heck out of it. I’m really tempted to tell you all the amazing things that are happening with this novel, but I don’t want to ruin the story for you. So, without giving too much
One of the skills that a professional writer has to develop is the ability to say no. No to social invitations. No to interesting projects. No to clueless asks. It isn’t an easy thing to do, but when I’m under deadline, saying yes to them means saying no to myself. No to my novel. No to my career. No to my sleep. Somewhere along the line, Steven Pressfield (one of
Ahhhhh, summer has finally arrived! I’ve gotten some requests for a romance, so this month I’ve chosen a charming story from Sue McDonagh, a debut author out of Wales. Before I go further, a brief word about romances. It’s an easy genre to poke fun at and the uninitiated love to roll their eyes, criticizing it as somehow low brow or a less valid form of literature than say, thrillers.
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