Thursday, June 20, 2024

KRL review of the Pharaoh's Heart



The Strange Case of the Pharaoh’s Heart cover"The Strange Case of the Pharaoh’s Heart is a paranormal romp with Holmes and Watson, and a time warp to the well-researched 1920s, from glittering haunts of the rich to the tombs of the Valley of the Kings."

Read the entire review at KRL News and Reviews.

Tuesday, June 11, 2024

Age Limit


The Strange Case of the Pharaoh's Heart.
roey, six, reading                                      Rory, six, reading The Strange Case of the Pharaoh's Heart.

                                      Recommended for ages 6 to 600.

Sunday, May 19, 2024

Raymond Chandler

Raymond Chandler at desk

A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong."                                --Raymond Chandler





Sunday, May 12, 2024

A Minifesto

 

myself with book

Call it a minifesto.

Art imitates life, said Aristotle, but Oscar Wilde allowed as he’d gotten it backward: life imitates art. These days, we’re worried that machines imitate art uncomfortably well, but that’s not where the real threat to artists comes from. It’s the audience imitating artists that should worry us. The general public has taken to imitating art with such gusto and aplomb that the artists—read storytellers—are getting crowded out.

Read the entire piece at Criminal Element.