Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron by Jasper Fforde compares to nothing I’ve ever read before, in a way that was very welcome. I picked it up because I read Fforde’s Big Idea piece on Scalzi’s blog and liked his idea of focusing on what happens after the apocalypse. In fact, the [...]
If I had judged these books by their covers, I probably wouldn’t have picked them up, since teenage drama at a snobby boarding school isn’t usually my thing. But when I found out the boarding school was just a cover for an elite spy school, I took a second look. And I’m glad [...]
From the moment the main character wakes up on a slab in the morgue, Three Days to Dead by Kelly Meding had me hooked.
Evy Stone, a hunter of Dregs (nonhuman species like goblins, vampires, and weres), has been resurrected into a new body and has three days to figure out who killed her and why. She has [...]
One of my worst procrastination habits is testing new writing software. I’m an organizational freak and can’t be content with just opening a new document and typing. I need a program that lets me make timelines, outlines, and keep detailed character notes as well as all my research close to hand. Also, I prefer to [...]
yWriter is a free novel-writing program developed by Simon Haynes, programmer and author of the Hal Spacejock books.
Because Simon wrote yWriter for his own use as an author, the program is continually improving and expanding as Simon considers feedback from other users and his own needs for the software. I’ll be discussing the most [...]
