I wanted to wrap this all up by putting together some thoughts and ideas. Personal experiences are peppered throughout the article but some final musings are called for. I never thought in a million years that I would become a review writer. It was a need for some kind of “process” for a small portion [...]

After just watching the BAFTA’s, and now looking ahead to this summer’s blockbuster films, you might notice there’s something quite literary about the movies this year. From The Lovely Bones to A Single Man, from the next Harry Potter to the next Twilight film (cringes) – (I feel your pain – Editor), if you thought [...]

Welcome, dear reader, to the last in a mini-series of articles about the positive and negative attributes of Fan Fiction. “But we’ve already gone through the ‘good’ and the ‘bad’ articles!” I hear you cry. This simply means, dear reader, that we have traversed to the ‘ugly. I will have to warn you now however…this [...]

So, we’ve already gone through the [good] points of Fan Fiction, and this is where I’m now allowed to briefly discuss a number of bad points about this genre of writing. I mentioned in my last article that until very recently, I stayed as far away from Fan Fiction as possible, and I think it [...]

This is the first of three articles, all about the phenomena that is Fan Fiction. Until a couple of months ago, I was dead set against Fan Fiction. But my mind has changed a little recently, which is why I have decided to start out on a good foot when it comes to this mini-series [...]

Each reviewer is going to have to decide for themselves what it is worth to them to handle the ARC and the possible ethical ramifications. I cannot tell you what you should do, because it is not my place to do so. Nor is each situation exactly the same. But I can warn you that [...]

The Advanced Review Copy, or ARC as it is called in the trade, is a book that has been released in advanced of the public release for review purposes. Usually they are sent to well known and established reviewers who the publisher feels will give the book the best coverage before it is actually released [...]

You’ve just finished writing a new poem or a chapter of a story you’re particularly proud of at three in the morning. What do you do next? a) Sleep on it. I’ll revise it in the morning when I’m not tired. b) Go to bed and see if I can get some feedback from people [...]

So, thus far in my previous article, we touched upon the topic of people not reading because they have no time to do so. We also managed to denounce that particular myth. It does however, leave us with a problem. Why don’t people read as much as they used to? Well, fifty years ago there [...]

We are faced with the reality that we do not always like what we read or we do not agree with the material presented in bound form. So, what do we do about it? When discussing fiction, there are probably more good books then bad out there, and with so much good, why waste your [...]