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 [...]
No Plot? No Problem!: A Low-Stress, High-Velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days by Chris Baty is a guide to writing a novel in a month, whether as part of the official National Novel Writing Month in November or as part of a personal challenge at some other time of the year.
In his [...]
If you need a jolt of writing energy, read How to Become a Famous Writer Before You’re Dead: Your Words in Print and Your Name in Lights by Ariel Gore. It may be just what you need to get moving again.
According to Gore, if you have no idea how to publish a book, [...]
