When the wild creeps into the human spaces, the fear crawls along with it like a wounded animal, snapping at anything that moves. From time immemorial, bandits have hidden in the forests, even if only metaphorically, and a tangle of trees and brush ignites a spark deep in the brain. An instinctive reaction to an… Read More Wilding Places
This is a repost, the article originally appeared at the Otherwhere Gazette two years ago. Cedar’s note: this post engendered a lot of discussion, much of it from failing to read carefully: the First Reader is talking about the church as a political entity, not as a body of people. There’s a comment on the… Read More Curmudgeon’s Corner: Pride
The First Reader and I were talking the other day about audiobooks. I know I’ve been asked more than a few times about having the Noir series made into audiobooks, and frankly the only thing stopping me is time. I had started to look into it about a year ago, and stopped to deal with… Read More Audiobooks and the Art of Reading Aloud
Ok, usual warnings apply: this is rough draft, so there will be errors. Feel free to point them out in comments! Hope you enjoy, and I still haven’t gotten this out to beta readers, I have been so busy with school. To begin at the beginning, look here: Snippet Round-Up. ****************************************** “What?” Bella straightened with… Read More Trickster Noir: Snippet 5