One Bite at a Time

I don’t usually post about individual books. Lots of people can dissect a book better than I and I’ll leave them to it. What I am qualifie...

3. Never use a verb other than “said” to carry dialogue. 4. Never use an adverb to modify the verb “said.” (Elmore Leonard, “Elmore Le...

Michael J. Clark is best known to Winnipeggers, Nova Scotians, and pretty much anyone with an internet connection as an award-winning Cana...

Jenny Milchman gets around, and I mean that in the most flattering sense. She spent eleven months in her car taking her debut novel Cover ...

The second-best thing about a new Patti Abbott book is that I get a chance to interview her for the blog. (The best thing? The book, dumba...

White Jazz , James Ellroy. My trip through the LA Quartet is complete and I’m a better person for it. Ellroy’s novels are flawed in genera...

Violence against women has been in the news lately. Not that it’s new; men have likely been abusing women since before there was language ...