When bored, I tend to go digging through websites just like Perpetual Prose looking for something new, something different and something that might really strike a chord in me that I’ve simply never seen before. When I came across a description for a genre known as ‘urban fantasy‘ [......]
Archive > July 2009
WAR FOR THE OAKS by Emma Bull
Lulu – Website of the Month
One of the most exciting advances for writers today is the ability to print your own books to your own personal standards. This allows the writer to take the power away from publishing houses who may otherwise have controlled their fate. It means that you no longer need to wait around to be recogniz[......]
Want to be a Celebrity Author?
While browsing Twitter, I found an interesting link on on the profile of Philip G. Davis. It led to a website called, Wake Up Celebrity Author. They are running a competition to help authors gain notoriety online. It doesn’t matter if you are tradionally published, POD published or self-publi[......]
Episode 2 – To Cap or Not to Cap
Over the past few days, I participated in an impromptu editors’ discussion (via email) on the rules for capitalization of titles. We were trying to reach a consensus in terms of our in-house standard (we all work for a small publisher).
Titles such as president and secretary general can cause much c[......]
Kathleen Guler – Author Interview
Kathleen, tell us about how you got started first as a writer and then as an author.
Ah, when has writing not been part of my life? It’s always been my favorite and best way to communicate, even when very young. For me, having grown up in a family of readers, the written word came naturally. I[......]
GIVE US THIS DAY by Sidney Stewart
For many years, a very close friend of mine used to tell me how lucky he was to have met, and to have had as a psychoanalyst, a man named Sidney Stewart. He said that Stewart was tough on him, but had been a superior professional, giving him so many things to think about. But most importantly, Stewa[......]
A Brief Look at Hemingway’s Poetry – Part 2
The second entry is even shorter, “Neo-Thomist Poem”:
The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not
want him for long.
Again Hemingway turns his focus to religious reflection. Here, though, is a much lighter, more sarcastic look at religion in modern day life. “Neo-Thomist” refers to Thomism, or t[......]
A Brief Look at Hemingway’s Poetry – Part 1
Ernest Hemingway wrote poetry? Yes, the winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature, the novelist famous for his innovative prose style, his terse and minimalist writing, dabbled in poetry as well. It is not uncommon for great writers to cross into other forms of writing, such as poetry or screenw[......]
Episode 1 – To Infinitively Split…
If you play Trivial Pursuit, you know about the grammatical error featured in the opening credits of Star Trek. The famous line “to boldly go where no man has gone before” contains the split infinitive “to boldly go” (where the adverb “boldly” splits the infinitive “to go”). While the line remains m[......]
Cym Lowell – Interview
Cym, you work as a tax lawyer. Is writing secondary to this or do you balance the two jobs? What made you want to pursue writing?
My day job is as an international tax lawyer. My passion is writing thrillers. There is no real problem in balance, as I tend to write in spurts as I feel the story evo[......]
