Visiting Old Friends
by Raymond M. Coulombe I’ve got a real hard time letting old books go. That may be why I have more books than the […]
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The Disastrous Trip from Pulp to Film
by Raymond M. Coulombe John Carter is a 2012 film from Disney Pictures. It was mostly based on the old Edgar Rice Burroughs pulp series, […]
Just How Anti Do You Like Your Hero?
by Patrick LeClerc This is an important question, both for writers and for readers. The anti hero has gain prominence lately, and there are a […]
The Good Hero
by Raymond M. Coulombe Recently I was sitting in on a writers’ panel. One of the participants mentioned something about heroes that caught my […]
What I Learned from Anthony Bourdain
by Patrick LeClerc Anthony Bourdain’s death hit me hard. He was an inspiration to me, through his writing and his television shows, making an impression […]
Story Basics
by Raymond M. Coulombe In my not too distant past I spent way too much time wading through the slush pile of story submissions. […]
Out of favor
by Raymond M. Coulombe There are a multitude of writers, good writers, who’ve fallen into obscurity. Others have fallen out of favor. Ernest Hemingway […]
Serialitis
by Raymond M Coulombe When is it time to end a book series? For example, did John Norman’s Chronicles of Gor really need thirty-four […]
Walking the Tigh-Trope
by Patrick LeClerc Saw the new Deadpool movie recently. Loved it. Recently, I read a discussion about it, and one of the points brought up […]
That New Fangled Book Format
by Raymond M. Coulombe Remember when books went to that new fangled format? No, not e-books. I’m talking about paperback books. It was a […]