No, this is not another post about poor Michael Jackson, dancing master though he was. My guest today is M. E. Kemp, author of historical mysteries set in Puritan New England. Staid? Dull? Not so much! Marilyn points out that Puritans were Elizabethans, after all,…
Category: Writing
Okay, settle down, I’m talking about a book title: HEIRS OF MARS, by Joseph Robert Lewis. First, I’m a Red-Head–red planet, that is. Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars in his books and short stories are among my home-away-from-home locations. A pied-à-mars, as it were. I read…
It’s snowing its brains out today, and that makes me think about weather. (Oh, really, Captain Obvious?) Shut up, self. Anyway, it makes me think about weather IN FICTION. They say you shouldn’t start your book or story with a description of the weather, but…