Purple Prose [05/18/11] 

  • Creating the Non-Stereotypical Character

    How many times have you read a story in which the characters are boring stereotypes? You can guarantee agents’ and editors’ slush piles are filled with these individuals. And we all know what happens to manuscripts containing them.Author Mary Buckham recently conducted a workshop through my local RWA (Romance Writers of America) c…

  1. Review: Figgs and Phantoms by Ellen Raskin
  2. Review: Zan-Gah by Allan R. Shickman
  3. Guest post with poet Veronica Tinto
  4. Review: The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
  5. Review: Vertical Run by Joseph Garber
  6. Thesis: Wes Anderson is the next John Hughes
  7. The Case NOT Against Titanic 3D
  8. Chasing Ghosts: Beyond the Arcade (2007)
  9. Sleepless In Seattle
  10. Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields (2010)