Some books leave you disappointed, some books you finish with bated breath, and some books you finish with a feeling of satisfaction that it was an enjoyable book which won’t collect dust on the shelf in coming years. My experience with Flowers for Algernon was none of these, however. This […]
Karina Teaches – Lesson 4
Over this year, Karina is going to share some of her writing seminars on the blog, with the lessons and references for further study. We’ll be posting these once a month. There’s no assigned homework, but if you have questions, please ask them in the comments. Her first workshop is […]
CWG NEWS
GABLE TRIPLES THE TOP TEN LIST Ellen Gable Hrkach, Vice President of the Catholic Writers Guild, reached a milestone last week: all three of her novels were in the top ten of their category on Amazon Kindle. At one point, all three books were in the top five! (As of […]
CWG NEWS
New Children’s Lenten and Easter Reflections Ash Wednesday is just around the corner, and Amazon is promoting Sarah Reinhard’s new book, Welcome Risen Jesus: Lent and Easter Reflections for Families (Ligouri, 2012). Like Reinhard’s other reflection booklet for Advent, Welcome Risen Jesus uses the Think, Pray, Act model to encourage family reflection […]
CWG NEWS
“The Day Johnny Cracked” CWG Secretary, Dave Law, has a flash fiction story published in White Cat Magazine‘s January issue. “The Day Johnny Cracked,” is Law’s first foray into writing after five years of sitting behind a publisher’s desk. Dave A. Law is a freelance writer and editor, whose short […]
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SHORT STORIES ABOUND 2011 was a fruitful year for CWG member Walt Staples. Five of his short stories were published at various fiction sites and “his stuff,” as Staples calls his writing, appeared in Splashdown Books’ anthology Aquasynthesis (2011). You can also find Staples and his most recent works at […]
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THE YOUNG CHESTERTON CHRONICLES BOOK 2 RELEASE CWG member John McNichol’s newest steam punk adventure with young Gilbert Keith Chesterton has arrived in paperback and Kindle and Nook form. The Emperor of North America (Bezalel Books, 2011) is the sequel to his best-selling novel, Tripods Attack!, that introduced G. K. Chesterton as […]
All the Old Familiar Places
This month I’m going to talk about something other than writing—science fiction scripting and screenplays. To start with, I must admit to a pair of unseemly pastimes. I have a predilection for both old science fiction movies and geology. There. I said it. Hopefully after reading the preceding, people other […]
Writing The Alien Alien
For the writer of speculative fiction, there’s a dodge most of us use—the human dressed in the alien suit. I don’t mean the guy dressed in a serape, lederhosen, Zulu head-ring, and carrying a samurai sword and boomerang (though it does make for an interesting picture); no, rather an alien […]