Summer Reading
by Raymond M. Coulombe I never put up a suggested summer reading list at the beginning of the season. It’s not too late to […]
Rants
Death by Amazon
by Raymond M. Coulombe Recently I received a panicky e-mail from a writer I sometimes follow. For reasons unknown, Amazon suddenly banned his books. […]
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 […]
Skill Sets
by Raymond M. Coulombe The publishing process is more democratic than ever before. It used to be a pretty high bar as publishing took a […]
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 […]
Minorities in Fiction
by Raymond M. Coulombe Junot Diaz, Pulitzer Prize winning author, has been dethroned from his lofty public position by charges of sexual harassment. That’s […]
The Creativity Conundrum
by Raymond M. Coulombe Creative people have a hard time. We must create. It’s what we do. Unfortunately, we also have to survive in […]