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74Publishing Short Stories: How to Get Your Fiction Published
Writers often struggle to find the right place to publish their short stories and other work. Where can I publish my fiction? Where can I publish my short stories? A lot of people lament the "death" of the...
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72Michael Parkes - The World's Leading Magic Realist Painter
The Last LionMichael Parkes, born in 1944 as an only child is said to be the world's leading Magic Realist Painter. He studied graphic art and painting at the University of Kanas and planned to be a teacher,...
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78What Is Magical Realism?
Magical Realism is a genre of fiction literature that invokes a wide array of opinions from different readers. These books evoke a wide array of responses. Some absolutely love magical realism books, but...
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77Responding to Isabel Allende's Of Love and Shadows
I was quite pleased with Isabel Allende’s Of Love and Shadows because it reads well, has multiple interesting characters, and has a plot in which events of some consequence actually take place. One of the...
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77Review of Haroun and the Sea of Stories
The excesses of Rushdie’s imagination are both the strength and weakness of this novel.The Shah of BlahHaroun is more accessible than some of Rushdie’s other novels, which should make it a good starting...
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69Pockets
Dimensions. That's what Doctor Takagawa called them. Dimensions. Like something out of a corny old comic book. After six hours of prodding and poking me with a hundred different instruments, from the...
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60Massimo Bontempelli
Massimo Bontempelli Massimo Bontempelli was born in 1878. He graduated in 1903 in Philosophy and Letters from the University of Torino. He taught in numerous schools and began his literal activity during...
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69Great Marquez - The Master of Magical Realism
Who is Marquez? Gabriel García Márquez is a great Columbian novelist who was awarded Nobel Prize in literature in 1982. He was born on 6th of March, 1927 in Aracataca, Magdalena, Columbia. He was the...
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61The Problem of Genre
I was not quite seventeen years old when I wrote the first chapter of The Few Who Count. I was twenty-three by the time it was finished. It was my first novel. I sent out a query letter to just about every...
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56How to Create an Immersive Setting
There are as many ways to create an immersive setting for a novel as there are novelists who achieved it. They all manage to build up enough detail about the world of the book that the reader is swept away...
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