Tag: mickey spillane

  • Shifting Gears

    That funny grinding noise you hear is my brain trying to shift from school speed to writing, full steam ahead.  Last night I felt rather lost, thinking: I’ve got homework, I am sure… wait, no.  So I stepped away from the computer, and picked up a stack of books to study beginnings, before starting Dragon…

  • Pixie Noir Reviewed

    Pixie Noir Reviewed

    ‘Pixie Noir’ author possesses talent Posted: Sunday, December 29, 2013 12:00 am (link is behind a paywall) By MARK LARDAS (snipped) What follows is a rollicking fantasy adventure. If you have ever wondered what literary cocktail would result from a mix of Mercedes Lackey’s Bardic Voices novels, Larry Corriea’s Monster Hunter tales, the detective novels of Dashiell…

  • The End

    The End

    When you are reading a novel, how important is the end to you? What’s a great ending you remember? What’s one that will make you toss the book and think ‘never reading that author again’? I’m getting to the very end of Pixie Noir, and I want to make it good for you, my readers!…

  • The Marinated Writer

    The Marinated Writer

    I know what you are thinking, and no, that’s not what I was marinating in. We did have a beer with dinner last night, and that’s as much as I’ve drunk in a week, so I’m not *that* kind of writer. What I am is one gathering flavor for my writing by reading. In this…