Category: Apple Blossom-a story that seduces you Genre: Anthology, Fiction I picked up this wonderful book on one of my bookstore adventures where I visited several bookstores in one day and determined to buy books from all of them. It was tossed onto my pile of 16 books without hesitation; the title was great, itContinue reading “A Tyranny of Petticoats Book Review”
Author Archives: Shea Robinson
A Writing Tip to Hear the Silence
The simplest way to make your characters feel real? Give them quirks. Quirks will unconsciously draw your reader in and embed them in your story because real people have little idiosynchracies that make us who we are. There’s a tick to our speech, we constantly run our hands through our hair when we’re thinking, weContinue reading “A Writing Tip to Hear the Silence”
The Displaced Book Review
Category: Snow Flower-a story that takes you on a journey Genre: Anthology, Non-fiction, Essays, Biography If ever there was a body of people who were ghosts, stolen from their land by someone else’s war, stripped from their identity in the guise of assimilation, living on the peripheries of our notice, voiceless and visible only asContinue reading “The Displaced Book Review”
A Writing Tip to Make your Writing Fine like Wine
What do you do when you’re struggling with adding sensory details to your work? You may be writing a piece of prose and can’t quite bring the setting alive, or writing a poem and wanting to avoid the cliche turns of phrase. Time to check out the tasting notes for a bottle of wine. TheContinue reading “A Writing Tip to Make your Writing Fine like Wine”
Book to Movie: V for Vendetta Review
Category: Apple Blossom-a story that seduces you Genre: Graphic Novel “Remember, remember the fifth of November, the gunpowder, treason, and plot. I know of no reason why the gunpowder treason should ever be forgot!” Immortal words on an immortal date by an immortal graphic novel spun into an immortal movie! The books that seduce meContinue reading “Book to Movie: V for Vendetta Review”
A Writing Tip to Feel the Love
Do you remember being 6 years old? Can you connect back to those memories or can you go further and connect with the person you were then? The one who didn’t know the world quite yet, who played with her friends, who loved and hated things for no particular reason except that it made sense,Continue reading “A Writing Tip to Feel the Love”
The Art of Racing in the Rain Book Review
Category: Snow Flower-a story that takes you on an emotional journey Genre: Fiction There are two types of readers: those who keep their books in pristine condition, never bending a page, never underlining, doing their best to keep the spine uncracked; and those who tear their books apart, taking them in backpacks and purses andContinue reading “The Art of Racing in the Rain Book Review”
A Writing Tip to Speak your Truth
It’s time to hear yourself speak. You might be thinking, but I’m a writer, I hear myself speak every day. I know the tambor of my voice. I feel its resonance. I know how it catches on a particularly beautiful line, or pauses as the image comes, cresting over the horizon of my mind likeContinue reading “A Writing Tip to Speak your Truth”
Ishmael Book Review
Category: Snow Flower-a story that takes you on an emotional journey Genre: Fiction “With man gone, will there be hope for gorilla?” And so this koan kicks off the conversation of a lifetime between teacher and student, between man and gorilla, between the Takers and the Leavers, between all that we have to learn andContinue reading “Ishmael Book Review”
A Writing Tip to Find your Title
When you’re writing a book, you’ll soon find out that writing is more than writing the story. It’s also the title and perhaps the subtitle and the dust jacket (also called a book synopsis) and a synopsis (which is different than the book synopsis) and the list goes on. When I was on the secondContinue reading “A Writing Tip to Find your Title”
Elegance Press 