It’s rare that I read a book that leaves me feeling like Catfish Alley: simultaneously a bit raw and heartbroken; joyful and hopeful. I couldn’t immediately talk about it, and even now, I’m sure I’m not doing justice to this amazing, wonderful story. Set in the mid 2000’s in a fictional Clarksville, Mississippi, Lynne Bryant’s Catfish […]
It’s not often that you think of punk rock and PhD’s mixing, but they meld perfectly in Anarchy Evolution: Faith, Science, and Bad Religion in a World Without God. Co-author Greg Graffin has a PhD in Zoology, teaches Evolution at UCLA, and is the lead singer of punk band Bad Religion. Anarchy Evolution is my […]
Today, I have a guest post from Nelle Davy, author of The Legacy of Eden. Here, Nelle talks about writing on taboo topics. Writing on Taboo Topics Because the novel (The Legacy of Eden) was inspired by I Claudius, in which all these things occur it wasn’t difficult to write because it was the natural course for […]
Not long ago, I reviewed Nelle Davy’s The Legacy of Eden. Nelle was gracious enough to answer a few questions for me, and here they are for you. And come back Wednesday, when I’ll have a guest post (my first ever) from Nelle. What inspired you to write THE LEGACY OF EDEN? I Claudius – […]
The bad redhead in a sea of Orange County blondes, Rachel Thompson (RachelInTheOC) is back with her trademark humor and snark in The Mancode: Exposed. This time, she’s deconstructing the differences between men and women. We all have things that bug us about the opposite sex. Thompson’s deconstruction of the behavior of men in her life […]