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Matthew Toffolo: What is your novel about? Mark Renshaw: A cyborg private detective Infected with a tekvirus teams up with a sexbot operated by his estranged daughter (#awakward) to solve all his cases and find a cure before he shuts down 2. What genres would you say this story is in? Sci-Fi comedy with a […]… Continue reading Interview with Novelist Mark Renshaw (CYBORN) — Matthew Toffolo’s Summary

And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous. No one notices you. You achieve a wonderful freedom. ~ Doris Lessing, British Novelist Except when you’re locked down by a virus. via Stolen Quote: Anonymous — Chasing Unicorns

These are times that are creating great and widespread anxiety, to be sure. Many people report experiencing nightmares. Few of us can remain fully unscathed as we’re forced to change our routines and cut ourselves off from the people and places that have offered comfortable reassurance. And being alone with our thoughts does not, as… Continue reading “My mind is a bad neighborhood that I try not to go into alone.” (Anne Lamott, Novelist) — annieasksyou…

Every Portis fan has a different favorite passage from his novels, but they agree on one thing: no one wrote like Portis. via Novelist Charles Portis Was a True Original — Longreads

The glorification of one race and the consequent debasement of another—or others—always has been and always will be a recipe for murder. There is no way around this. If one is permitted to treat any group of people with special disfavor because of their race or the color of their skin, there is no limit […]… Continue reading Thought for Today: A Recipe for Murder — Three Worlds One Vision

“Many will paint Memmi as a Tunisian author to lend credibility to an imagined version of early 20th c. Tunisia: cosmopolitan, multi-confessional. In my opinion this is not only inaccurate, it runs against Memmi’s thought on the nuances of belonging and the workings of colonialism.” via Tunisian Novelist and Essayist Albert Memmi Dies at 99 —… Continue reading Tunisian Novelist and Essayist Albert Memmi Dies at 99 — ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly

When I was a kid I wanted to be everything. I practiced tight rope walking on the chain-link fence behind my buddy Jeff’s house in preparation to join the circus; explored the city sewers, preparing to become a world-class archeologist; drew up plans for a theater in my backyard and cast Debbie Reynolds in the […]… Continue reading I Am a Novelist! — Mitch Teemley

What’s your dream publishing company look like?… via A Novelist Takes Control: writer Colleen Tews owns a publishing house! — Happiness Between Tails by da-AL

J.K. Rowling is one of my favorite living authors. Her Harry Potter series is amazing, of course, but I also like her downbeat The Casual Vacancy novel and love her compelling crime series (written under the Robert Galbraith pen name) starring the pictured-above private investigators Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott. So it was especially disappointing […]… Continue reading When Novelists Display Intolerance — Dave Astor on Literature

by David Gittlin Most serious writers want to connect with an audience; preferably a big one. You have something to say. You have a story to tell. You want people to read it. One of the best ways to make people want to read your work is to create memorable and relatable central […] via How… Continue reading How to Create Dynamic Fictional Characters — A Writer’s Path