Category: Blog
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The Rules of Fiction
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2009 I blogged about them on Fresh Fiction.com today. Be one of the first to comment, and win!
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Young Adult Novels are Awesome
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2009 I’ve been gorging on young adult novels this summer, researching a pet project. I never read YA as a kid, and had no idea how fantastic and thriving a genre it is. Many of the books listed below are darker than mainstream adult fiction, and they’re all a heckofa lot smarter.…
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Book Research
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2009 I learned today that 10-20 hours before an earthquake, cell phones, radio, and television reception are all intermittently interrupted. Also, one of the guys who tried to kill Rasputin was dressed as a girl by his mother until his early teens. Can you say, “Sleepaway Camp”?
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Locus Review
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 08, 2009 From September’s Locus: “Sarah Langan is one of the bright new hopes of horror– an intelligent, literary, ambitious author capable of scaring the ever-loving crap out of her readers.”– Tim Pratt
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Atlantic Monthly Article: “How Health Care Killed My Father”
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 02, 2009 I know as a writer I’m supposed to blog about writing, but sometimes life on the outside is interesting, too. The above titled article in this month’s Atlantic Monthly reminded me, despite its anecdotal, painfully weepy human-interest title, of why the Atlantic is so good. It gives an excellent analysis of…