I definitely have a dark side. For as long as I can remember I have loved scary and/or weird stuff, starting with Nancy Drew and John Bellairs (remember The House With a Clock in its Walls? Spooky!), moving on to Nightmare on Elm Street and anything by Stephen King, James Lee Burke or Jonathan Kellerman, and now Lee Child. I… Read more »
As far as creatures go, most wouldn’t think a mermaid would be a part of that group. However, the mermaid we think of today thanks to Hans Christian Anderson’s fairy tale, The Little Mermaid (1836), isn’t the mermaid known throughout history. When you think of a mermaid, you often think of flowing hair, a beautiful face -and body for those… Read more »
You’re about to learn that all that flutters are not fairies. Pixies – also known by a plethora of other names like pixy or even pigsies – originate from Celtic roots. The mischievous pixies, in today’s world, are often confused with sprites or fairies, but throughout history, there were said to be even wars between the groups of fluttery ones. … Read more »
When I first began looking into a creature I love, zombies, I thought I knew quite a bit. I thought I’d read and watched enough that I had my bases covered. Ha! Boy was I mistaken. Not only did I learn that there are different types of zombies, but there are tons of zombie myths and legends around the world…. Read more »
What sort of creature do you think of when you hear the world “fairy?” Odds are, thanks to popular media’s portrayal, images of Tinkerbell, tiny homes built into trees, and dresses made of leaves and flowers come to mind. While the innocent, playful, light-hearted fairy is familiar to most, you would be hard pressed to find anyone who saw them… Read more »
One of my favorite tools of writing is subtext. I don’t know how widely known or used it really is because I didn’t learn about it until my junior year of college. Subtext is a thread that runs through a writer’s work that punctuates major points and/or usually underscores the whole purpose of the story. To put it in laymen… Read more »
Although I’ve never personally emptied my bank account on self-publishing a book – not yet anyhow – I have to say that there has to be a line where expenses just can’t be cut: editing and/or proofreading. Sure, I know the cover is important, as are promotional activities and the like; however, if you spend your entire budget on those… Read more »
Rarity from the Hollow is an adult literary science fiction novel filled with tragedy, comedy and satire that sensitizes readers to the world-wide social problem of child maltreatment. “…The author has managed to do what I would have thought impossible; taken serious subjects like poverty, ignorance, abuse, and written about them with tongue-in-cheek humor without trivializing them. In fact,… Read more »
Butterfly Blink is a book without words. It is intended to be a learning tool for children between the ages of 2 and 6. When Karl asked if Truth About Books would review his book, my first thought was: I’m not qualified to review a children’s book. I have no children and I’m not a teacher. However, I… Read more »
