In a magazine article I published in 1998, I had observed that most video games either excluded woman altogether – or cast them in passive roles, such as a princess to be rescued. This might not have bothered me so much – and I may have never been published – if I had been able […]
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I have written two fantasy novels, and I have just started another. However, I have a weakness: fight scenes. I have written a few, but tend to avoid them if I can. And yet, they are a huge part of the genre. In fantasy, the culmination of a story is almost always an epic war. Usually
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There was a time that I had decided that all television was dumb and that only books were worth my time. I hated the vacuous sit-coms and the laugh tracks that told viewers how to react. I was fifteen then. Perhaps at that time, in the mid eighties, the quality of many shows were sub-par.
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The best novels are the ones you regret having to finish reading. I was happily surprised to have discovered one by an Abbeville author, within easy driving distance from where I live. Written by Amy Alley, The Absence of Anyone Else is about Grace, a single mother of a toddler and an underpaid art teacher,
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