May 15, 2018 | Current Ned Note, Horror, On Writing
Last week, I picked up a book that’s been on my shelf for a long time. This was Different Seasons by Stephen King. This book is a collection of four novellas, and was his first publication that reached outside of the horror genre. The book includes the novellas Apt...
May 9, 2018 | Bookstores, Current Ned Note, Past Notes
Find my books at Ada’s Technical Books Read more BOOKSTORE POSTS In the early 2000s, a blusterous tech guy I knew in Seattle went to work for Amazon. Shortly afterwards, I had coffee with my old friend, and he proceeded to tell me how the future of books...
May 7, 2018 | Current Ned Note, Past Notes, Poetry
Maria Hummel’s book House And Fire was the winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize, 2013. “Station” is a pantoum, a Malay verse form, imitated in French and English, consisting of quotations. by Maria Hummel Days you are sick, we get dressed...
May 4, 2018 | Current Ned Note, On Writing, Past Notes
A simply marvelous Tolkien Lecture by the wonderful writer Victoria Schwab. Schwab speaks of J.K. Rowling, Neil Gaiman, Susanne Clarke and so many more writers who have my world astonishing, more hopeful and yes, stranger as well. I truly enjoyed every moment of this...
May 2, 2018 | Current Ned Note, On Writing, Past Notes
Highlights: Ned Hayes Ned Hayes was a part-time author of historical fiction when he got the idea for The Eagle Tree. The novel was so different from his previous work that he feared nobody but him would like it. He decided to submit the novel to Kindle Scout – a...
Apr 30, 2018 | Bookstores, Current Ned Note, Past Notes
If you are a connoisseur of bookstores, like I am, then you might find this to be an unusual post, because despite my previous posts praising the shining stars of the indie book world — mainstays like Kepler’s in Silicon Valley, Powell’s in Portland,...
