Category: Features

NaNoWriMo: No No Wri Mo

  • November 20, 2015

  • 3 mins to read

National Novel Writing Month is upon us once more, and I have thoughts on that. Firstly, there’s the knee-jerk, irritable me response: “Oh good, yet more word count boasting on Twitter.” You know the sort of thing – This morning I wrote 2000 words, went for a run and then wrote 2000 more. #amwriting. And …

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The Cutting Room: Fear The Walking Dead

  • November 19, 2015

  • 2 mins to read

Living in the same universe as The Walking Dead, Fear the Walking Dead is a gritty drama that explores the onset of the undead apocalypse through the lens of a fractured family. Set in Los Angeles, a city where people come to escape, shield secrets, and bury their pasts, a mysterious outbreak threatens to disrupt …

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Guidelines? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Guidelines

  • November 18, 2015

  • 11 mins to read

Um, yeah, you do. Confession: I’m not doing NaNoWriMo this year. I have nine million irons in the fire right now, in the form of columns to write as well as reviews and my own fiction. Also, Fallout 4 hits this month. And Battlefront. So there’s that. Don’t let my nonparticipation in anyway discourage you …

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Look Out For… The Rim Of Morning by William Sloane and Thinking Horror

  • November 17, 2015

  • 4 mins to read

Look Out For… The Rim Of Morning by William Sloane “The Rim Of Morning demonstrates Sloane’s skill at building an atmosphere of tension and dread.” In the 1930s, William Sloane wrote two brilliant novels that gave a whole new meaning to cosmic horror. In To Walk the Night, Bark Jones and his college buddy Jerry …

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