Recently I was given a copy of YA graphic novel a + e 4ever by Ilike Merey from Lethe Press. I am not a graphic novel reader habitually, so I wasn’t sure what to expect. I read it in one sitting, and by the end of it two words came to me that described the experience. Heartbreaking. Beautiful. I found the art to have just the right level of impressionism to it – emotions exaggerated almost crudely, perhaps from a …

Some writers love the revision/rewrite process. Some loathe it. Some grow too big for their britches and skip it altogether, then shit all over the Amazon.com comment pages when called out on it. But most will say that rewriting is a necessity. No matter how brilliant your first draft may feel, how effortlessly it poured from your fingers as if the Muse herself were manipulating your hands upon the keyboard, there will be something wrong with it you’re just not …

2011 sucked in so many ways, but for one area: new books to read! After getting a Kindle last Christmas, I began collecting more and more new books to read, since I no longer had to worry about shelf space. Here, in no particular order, are the four books of 2011 that stuck most with me. In no particular order, and with the warning that I probably forgot another gem or two along the way – my brain holds nothing …

Well said.