HarperCollins Publishers, LLC, © 2014 ISBN 9780062444134 Print length 467 pages, $10.81 When Rosemary’s feet leave Mars for the first time, it’s to take a cramped pod shuttle to rendezvous with her new employer, Captain Ashby Santoso, aboard the Wayfarer, a tunneling ship that digs passages through space, shortcuts for travel throughout the Galactic Commons….
Author: DremaDeoraich
It’s a Love Thang (or How I Fell In Love With My Characters)
Writers are omniscient, at least within their own worlds. They know who’s doing what to (or with) whom and why, what the probable outcome will be, what price will be paid by those involved, and where all the action is taking place. Ask any author about the city where her story takes place. She can…
Hyperion, by Dan Simmons
Spectra Publishing, © 1990 ISBN 978-0553283686 Mass Market Paperback, 481 pages, $6.82 In a dark and foreboding universe, Hyperion is only one among many terraformed human worlds, though it may well be the oddest. Home to the Time Tombs, which move backward through time, Hyperion is also home to the Shrike, a horrific monster said…
Going with the Flow
As I said last week, my initial foray into writing fiction was flawed. In the science fiction market, the genre for my first novel, acceptable manuscript word count tops out at around 120K as a maximum for a first-time author; mine was greater than 800K and still going with no signs of ending any time…
Letting My Inside Voice Out
Nobody takes fiction writers seriously. That’s what I used to think. As a volunteer journalist and editor on a small non-profit press for more than ten years, I snorted at the suggestion I should write fiction. Why, if I wrote something as superficial as a novel, no one would ever buy my non-fiction books, which…
Bad Blood, by Lucienne Diver
Samhain Publishing, © 2012 ISBN 978-1-60928-594-4 219 pages, $14.00 Any book that includes Apollo—the Apollo—hiding among humans as an adult film star is bound to grab my attention. And he isn’t alone; Circe, Poseidon, Hephaestus, Hermes, and other Big Names make appearances in this first book of the Latter Day Olympians series. Add in skeptical…
Wake Up! The Role of Ecstasy in Spiritual Practice
There’s an old joke about a Taoist who, when ordering food at a hot dog stand, asks the vendor to make him one with everything. Even as we laugh at this play on words, we know exactly what is being implied in the punch line: reunion with the All-That-Is — God, Goddess, Buddha nature, Universe,…