Category Archives: Literature

The Writer’s Block: In Twain’s Shadow

August 31st, 2016 | Posted in Literature

I live in Connecticut. As you might imagine, we have to scramble to find things to brag about. We have two impressive casinos, the best women’s college basketball team in the nation, and a failed hockey team. It was in Bristol, CT, in 1989 that Milli Vanilli’s scam started to unravel. That about sums up […]

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Secret Things by Stacey Longo

December 17th, 2013 | Posted in Literature

It’s a cool thing when a writer you think you know can surprise you. It’s a cooler thing when a writer who’s also a friend blindsides you with the sheer originality of their work. This is the case with Secret Things: 12 Tales to Terrify, a collection of short stories by my friend and terror […]

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Enter to win Michael J. Sullivan’s new book on Goodreads

June 13th, 2013 | Posted in Literature

Author Michael J. Sullivan is a very talented writer and has been a good friend of SFSN. He has been on our show and we had an incredibly candid conversation about his process and his books. We got an email from him this week and I would like to share some of it with you. […]

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A Quick H.P. Mallory Update

April 30th, 2013 | Posted in Daily Rants, Literature

  A few weeks back we had HP on and had a wonderful time. We talked about enlisting social media to introduce the characters of her newest novel and the profiles are up! Here are Facebook links to: Lily Harper Bill Angel and Talis Black. And here is a Youtube preview. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2C5lVJF4lDM]

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Horror Fiction as a Möbius Strip – Crabapples

November 27th, 2012 | Posted in Daily Rants, Literature

Rob Watts‘  series, The Crooked Roads Through Cedar Grove is an ongoing project of  combination novellas/albums by writer/composer Rob Watts. Each of the four titles is to be released in a limited edition of 250 signed and numbered volumes available until all 250 are sold out. At the conclusion of all four books the author is planning to […]

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Ready Player One Review

August 16th, 2012 | Posted in Daily Rants, Literature

What does the world’s greatest video game designer do when he amasses a large fortune, builds a technological legacy, and has no heirs to leave it to? Create a video game contest, of course! Ready Player One by Ernest Cline sets the standard in using geek nostalgia to write a fun and engaging story.

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Ray Bradbury – The Last Grand Master

June 7th, 2012 | Posted in Daily Rants, Literature

The great authors of science fiction are often grouped into categories and historical time frames. First came the Innovators:  Jules Verne, Edgar Allan Poe, and Edgar Rice Burroughs. The next group are affectionately called the Grand Masters of Modern Science Fiction, a group that consists of four  amazing and talented men: Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac […]

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Silver Vengeance by Kasey Shoemaker

May 2nd, 2012 | Posted in Daily Rants, Literature

  So here’s the story:  through no fault of anyone’s I got interrupted reading this book on 4 separate occasions and felt the need to retrace my steps when I started again. Why? It’s a complex read, and to give it justice you must immerse yourself in this reality. From the initial family turmoil, to […]

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The Soul Collector by Tracy L. Carbone

March 20th, 2012 | Posted in Daily Rants, Literature

When a young adult “horror” book crossed my path, I was concerned. As I finished it I was surprised, and most pleasantly so. This isn’t a horror book in any sense of the word. The Soul Collector is a book about an young girl, American Stonehenge, alien presence and (just for good measure) divorce. At […]

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Feed by Mira Grant

December 22nd, 2011 | Posted in Daily Rants, Literature

I was a little leery about getting into this book, but I am so glad that I did. What a great zombie book! Instead of dealing with what happens when the zombie outbreak happens, its dealing with how people go on living when the outbreak is controlled but not gone, and it does it very, […]

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