Book Review: “The City & The City” by China Mieville

Angel's Adjectives: Ponderous and prim China Mievelle has a reputation as a fabulous writer, and yet, reading this book, I got the impression that people loved it because there's an intellectual (physics) concept at its core, and thus, reading it makes them intellectual by extension. Not. Mieville has a good command of the language, and this is the only book…

Poem: “More”

Back then, I wasn't much more than "Lemme try" and "I want another." Arms held high, reaching out for the sky, reaching out for mother. My bed was a ship, my toys the crew, on a magical trip to Mars. And as I grew, an explorer in cut-off jeans, dreaming beneath the stars of a time when I'd be grown.…

Book Review: HORNS by Joe Hill

Angel’s Adjectives: Bold and Brilliant Have you ever read a book that gave you the feeling you were in the company of greatness? Joe Hill’s Horns did that for me. It’s the story of a man who discovers a growing affinity with the devil as he unravels the circumstances surrounding his murdered girlfriend. Its primary theme is that sin is…

Book Review: INVISIBLE INK

Angel's adjectives: helpful and succinct I feel compelled to tell you about this book. It was recommended to me by a friend of mine (Matthew Haley) who is a film director, and it's wonderful. Maybe it hit me at just the right point in my "writerly" development, or maybe it's just an amazing book. It's called Invisible Ink, written by…

Top Ten Reasons Why I Hate Novel Piracy

Inspired by an F. Paul Wilson article called “Word Thieves II.” (Read it.) He’s talking about websites that scan novels without permission and offer them for free to the masses without morals. He does a marvelous job of explaining why piracy is bad. I freely admit that there are no hard and fast facts to support the following numbers, but…

Masters of Horror Anthology

Welcome to a world hidden behind the blinds of reality, a landscape waiting to be molded into a thing of pain and torture. This anthology is not for the faint-hearted. The ideas, themes, and disturbing images portrayed within these pages will send your brain into overdrive on the road to madness. This book is guaranteed to rob you of sleep…