By Sylvain Neuvel Del Ray/Random House. ©2016 ISBN: 9781101886717 Trade Paperback, 336 pages 11-year-old Rose Franklin sneaks out of her house to ride her new birthday bike and wakes the next morning in an enormous metal hand lying at the bottom of a deep, square hole whose walls glow turquoise light through intricate carvings. Seventeen…
Author: DremaDeoraich
Grunt Work
I’ve heard others say I should tailor my writing to fit a chosen market. In other words, write to fit the magazine in which you’d like to publish. Maybe I’m just a rebel, but I’ve always done it the other way ‘round—write first, match to a market after. ‘Course, that might explain why I’m not…
Myst III, The Book of D’Ni
By Rand Miller and David Wingrove Hyperion Books. © 1998 ISBN: 978-0786889426 Mass Market Paperback, 544 pages Seventy years after the fall of D’Ni, Atrus and Catherine return with a team of enthusiastic assistants, intent on rebuilding. The devastation is overwhelming, unimaginable. The team hardly knows where to start. But Atrus feels certain some D’Ni…
Planting Seeds
Years ago, I worked in retail and stood on my feet all day. Now that my day job involves sitting, and my “night job” (writing) also involves sitting, I’m getting sludgy around the middle. Walking outside is more fun than the cardio equipment at the gym, but weather gods don’t always cooperate with my schedule….
Myst II: The Book of Ti’Ana
by Rand Miller and David Wingrove Hyperion Books. ©1996 ISBN: 978-0786889204 Mass Market Paperback, 592 pages. Anna lives with her father, conducting geological surveys in the desert. When his death leaves her alone, Anna sets off for the nearest town, but decides to make one last exploration of tunnels in the extinct volcano, discovered by…
Myst I: The Book of Atrus
by Rand Miller, Robyn Miller and David Wingrove Hyperion Books. ©1995 ISBN: 978-0786881888 Mass Market Paperback, 422 pages. Anna is the only person young Atrus has ever known. His mother died in childbirth. His father, Gehn, abandoned Atrus immediately after, leaving him to his grandmother to raise or bury. Gehn didn’t really care which. Anna chooses…
The Joy of the New
I just finished a new story, one unlike any other I’ve written thus far. I can’t explain the feeling, the excitement, the sense of teetering between promise and trepidation at hopes of getting it in print. If you write, you know it. If you don’t, no words will suffice. The characters in my tales are…
Fingerprints of God: The Search for the Science of Spirituality
by Barbara Bradley Hagerty. Riverhead, © 2009 ISBN 978-1594484629 Paperback, 336 pages. From $14.97 Lifelong Christian Science devotee Barbara Bradley Hagerty, inspired by a spiritual encounter she could not explain, spent years exploring the nature of God. Fingerprints documents her journey through the labyrinth of stories from people who’ve experienced a transcendent connection with something…
Setting the Scene to Write
I have a DJ in my head. For some reason, that sucker likes to torment me by playing the same melody fragment of the same song over and over and over for days (or weeks) without pause. Right now, for example, it’s playing a very old Bette Midler tune from her burlesque days. (“If you’re…
Fueling the Fire
My friend William recently asked me to explain what I meant by “God” in five minutes or less. After I finished laughing, I said I was pretty sure no one in this reality could explain or describe God at all, much less in five minutes. However, to me, God is that quintessential Other, who I…