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…
Author: DremaDeoraich
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…
The Target
by David Baldacci Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group, © 2014 ISBN 978-1-4555-2123-4 Mass Market Paperback, 432 pages, $10.00 When faced with the opportunity of a lifetime—the chance to take down a global threat—U.S. President Cassion weighs the risks and reluctantly gives the order. The mission must succeed. Failure means certain retaliation, probable impeachment, and…
The Seventh Victim
by Mary Burton Kensington Publishing, Inc. © 2013 ISBN 978-1-4201-2505-4 Mass Market Paperback, 362 pages, $7.99 When Texas Ranger JAMES BECK arrives at the crime scene, the details—victim clad in a home-made white dress, blonde hair fanned out around her head, and a penny clutched in one hand—seem familiar somehow. It’s only after Beck begins…
Time is a Four-Letter Word
I know. I’ve written about time before. I probably will write about it again. It’s that important. Writing takes time – between day-job and daily commute, between cooking/eating/showering/sleeping, between family and friends and home maintenance, there’s blogging, reviewing, researching, brainstorming, writing and editing and rewriting. That was the point of my previous post. This time,…
Just Fall, by Nina Sadowsky
Ballantine Books, © 2016 ISBN 978055394863 304 pages, $26.00 Looks can be deceiving. That’s what ELLIE LARRABEE finds out moments after saying “I do” when the man of her dreams reveals in one shocking sentence a truth that shakes her world. Everything she has taken for granted is built on shifting sands and suddenly her…