Armchair BEA 2015: Introduction

Somehow it is already time for Armchair BEA again! Cheers to the lovely folks who organize this virtual get-together each year. It’s always great fun.   Tell us a bit about yourself: How long have you been blogging? Where are you from?  I began blogging about books nearly seven years ago. I’d been writing film…

That time I did #TwitterFiction

This year, I won a contest to participate in Twitter Fiction Festival. The week-long event, sponsored by Twitter, Penguin Random House, the Association of American Publishers and USA Today, features well-known authors alongside completely unknown writers who present short stories on Twitter. I opted for a Monte Cristo revenge ghost story set in Savannah. I…

REVIEW: XO ORPHEUS

This not your grandparents’ Bulfinch’s Mythology.  Bernhiemer has commissioned stories from contemporary writers from all around the world.  Their contributions, while inspired by a “classic” myth, are wholly fresh and new. What’s fascinating is that which the Ancients perceived as important or problematic, remain so even now and easily translate into modern sensibilities.  Indeed, these…