YOUR CRIME FICTION OBSESSION
Why does crime fiction have such a hold on many of us? In the western world, crime fiction makes up somewhere between 25 and 40 percent of all fiction book sales. Crime is undoubtedly fascinating. It’s also highly addictive, which is why many authors have a great deal of success writing fictional accounts of it, […]
WHAT DOES AN AUTHOR FEEL WHEN WRITING A BOOK?
When I get an idea for a book, it’s feels like a movie trailer playing in my head––just the highlights or what I think are the highlights at that point––in fabulous cinematic glory, with very little plot and a convenient glossing over of the details, but it’s there. And that’s invariably where I start. I’m […]
HOW NEW YORK CITY BECAME A FICTION WRITER’S DREAM SETTING.
New York City is unique in so many respects that the mere mention of its name immediately conjures up for most people iconic images of the place and an opinion of its people. It’s the city than never sleeps, where skyscrapers reach dizzying heights and sidewalks fill to capacity every day with a crush of […]
RELIC – LOST IN THE CORRIDORS OF HER MIND AND HER HOME
I was drawn to the tagline of this movie: ‘everything decays.’ That undisputable fact of our lives has always fascinated me and seemed very apt for horror movie. Relic was released in July 2020 and I’ve only just got around to seeing it after getting through all the books I wanted to read last year. […]
SEDLEC OSSUARY – THE BONE CHURCH
During my last visit to the Czech Republic, I couldn’t pass up visiting this macabre looking place. Just the fascination of why something like this would exist in the first place, was enough to make me want to go see it. An ossuary is defined as a container or building used to store the final […]
EXPANSION AND THE SISYPHUS STONES – SPIRITUAL CREATIONS ON THE HUDSON
New York is such a vibrant cultural city, that it’s hard to single out anything that truly stands out. But two mysterious, almost supernatural-looking objects immediately called out to me. I recently came across and immediately wanted to find out more about the Expansion sculpture by Paige Bradley and the collection of strange rock formations […]
JACK REACHER VS. CORMORRAN STRIKE
Two series I have enjoyed, for their action and their plot twists, are Lee Child’s Jack Reacher series and Robert Galbraith’s (an alias of J. K. Rowling) Cormorran Strike’s series. Any good story requires the reader to become engaged with the principal character, and in both cases Reacher and Strike deliver. They are both being […]
TRUE DETECTIVE – A SOUTHERN GOTHIC THRILLER
I haven’t been watching much TV lately while I’ve been writing. Now my book is with the copyeditor I have time to catch-up. And True Detective is turning out to be one of the best shows I have seen in a long time. This is the type of series that has all the ingredients for […]
SERVANT – HEAVILY ATMOSPHERIC
Late to the party on this one I know, but if you’re stuck for a TV series to watch which is creepy, suspenseful and highly imaginative, you won’t find much better at the moment than Servant on AppleTV+. And with Season 2 scheduled for February, it’s a good time to catch up. M. Night Shyamalan […]