Coffee and the Muse

I’m proud to announce the release of the first edition of Coffee and the Muse. It’s a bi-weekly free newsletter for aspiring and practicing writers that discusses literary terms, how to write a novel and other writing tips, and gives reviews of well-written books. Yours truly will be providing those reviews, and possibly some articles [...]

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Coraline: Girl Heroine!

Coraline by Neil Gaiman Illustrated by Dave McKean The movie was amazing: beautiful, imaginative, and just this side of too scary for younger kids. If your children can make it through A Nightmare Before Christmas, they can make it through Coraline in theaters and enjoy themselves immensely. My two year old sat through the entire [...]

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The Graveyard Book

I picked this book up at ConDFW over the weekend. I love Neil Gaiman’s work, truly. My first experience with him was Neverwhere, a great, surreal, and exciting read. The Graveyard Book, like the title suggests, is set in a graveyard. A young boy, Nobody Owens, called Bod, is tragically orphaned as a toddler, and [...]

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