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8 Lawyers that Became Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors
Originally published at Grasping for the Wind. Please leave any comments there.
The legal profession seems to breed writers. John Grisham turned to legal thrillers, Scott Turow and Meg Gardiner the same. And who could forget the raucous and bawdy story of Tom Jones, penned (literally, it was the eighteenth century) by seated judge Henry Fielding?
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Stuff and Nonsense
Originally published at Grasping for the Wind. Please leave any comments there.
I’d like to begin by mentioning the catastrophe that has hit Northeastern Japan.
As you all know, the earthquke and tsunami of March 11 left a swath of destruction unrivaled in Japan since the Second World War. Thousands upon thousands of people have lost their lives, ( Read more... ) -
Emerging Trends in YA
Originally published at Grasping for the Wind. Please leave any comments there.
Every couple of years there seems to be an outbreak of new book trends all featured in one genre or sub-genre. In the young adult fiction world, vampires and werewolves have been an extremely popular pick of the last year or two, but now in 2011, a fresh wave of trends ( Read more... )
