Failing again. Failing better.
SAGA by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples continues to be one of the most beautiful, interesting, and fantastical comics series around. There’s a reason volume 1 won the Hugo for Best Graphic Story in 2013 and volume 2 was nominated for Best Graphic Story in 2014, and Staples was nominated for the Best Professional…
My latest article on Fantasy-Faction has been posted. It’s a review of Jo Walton’s WHAT MAKES THIS BOOK SO GREAT? If you want to read more books inside genre, Walton gives a lot of great suggestions. And if you consider yourself a big genre reader already, Walton will show you how to read deeper.
AFTERPARTY by Daryl Gregory is a near-future sci-fi thriller that explores what happens when anyone can cook up a batch of the latest designer drug–or create their own–in their garage. Overdoses, mental illness, and crime are at the heart of this novel, but before I make it sound like a real downer, I should point…
A lot happened this week: some bad news and some good news. The bad news from this week is that after a long illness, Nobel-Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez has died. If you haven’t read ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE, LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA, or any of his other novels, short stories, or…
I’ve been working on a new project. Like many proto-stories, I have a few scenes in mind, some setting details, and some characters. And, as I’ve talked about before, I’m an outliner. And each time I outline a story, I aim to make it better, stronger, a really solid outline–one that can demonstrate conflict, pacing,…