“Nothing’s gonna change my world.” My questions and musings on Banned Books week 2013…. Why do we ban books? Who are we trying to protect when we censor ideas, words, and images? When something offends us, why do we feel the need to not only look away, but to keep it away from others as … Continue reading
These days it seems like every celebrity and everybody who thinks they’re a celebrity has written a book. Then, you read the fine print and see that really a ghost writer actually did all the work while the “author” babbled on about a series of unrelated experiences over a mimosa and a cigarette. Anyway, that got me … Continue reading
Last week I got to cross a big item off the Bucket List. One that I never really thought would get crossed off, so I actually had forgotten about it until the opportunity presented itself in crazy, random sort of happenstance way. Stephen King was in Dallas last week promoting his new novel 11/22/63 (about a guy who … Continue reading
I have a deep and profound love of horror. I have my whole life. As a kid (and still to this day quite frankly) my favorite part of Willy Wonka was when they take the boat into the tunnel and Gene Wilder is reciting that eerie poem with a look of insanity in his eye while … Continue reading
I’m working on a short story that I plan to send in to at least one Literary Magazine/Writing Contest. I’m not sure what the rules are on submitting one story to multiple contests, because what if it won two different contests? I know that is incredibly unlikely, but a lot of these contests want to claim … Continue reading
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