With a launch looming early next year, Urban Fantasy writer Kim Harrison released the cover and first chapter for her latest installment of her Hollows series, The Undead Pool. Throughout the week Harrison teased the cover on her blog and today she gave her readers a glimpse at the 12th […]
From the fine folks at Mental Floss: As we previously mentioned, November means NaNoWriMo, AKA National Novel Writing Month, which challenges writers to pen a novel during the month. While no one expects masterpieces to be written in such a short time span – the goal is to force writers to get […]
It’s November, which means it’s National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo for short. Described by Grant Faulkner, the executive director of National Novel Writing Month, as a literary marathon, NaNoWriMo writers “exit the month with more than a novel; they’ve experienced a transformative creative journey.” For me, it is a […]
On this day, December 3, in 1857, Joseph Conrad was born in Berdichev, Imperial Russia (modern
Ukraine, then a part of Poland). While he settled in England and wrote in English, he always considered himself a Pole. Heart of Darkness, one of the most famous of his 20 novels (which explores colonialism and the attitudes regarding what constitutes a barbarian versus civilized society) is considered one of the best English novels of the 20th century, as is his novel Lord Jim, which chronicles a crew’s abandonment of its disabled ship. Conrad died in England in 1924 at age 66.