Every week I weed through over 100 blogs, looking for writing advice, publishing news and books to read. Considering how time consuming this is, I share the posts I find the most interesting here every week. If you’d like me to add your blog to my feeder or a link from my weekly tour, leave [...]

This week’s posts over at the Wicked Writer’s blog were book reviews of recent reads. My post, Hmmm… What to Review? ended up discussing Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert and Happy Hour of the Damned by Mark Henry. Read the other writer’s opinions: C. J. Ellison, Book Reviews: C.J.’s choice is Urban Fantasy Greg Marshall [...]

In the tasting room, fallen chairs and spilled wine glasses reflected a hasty exit. No guest would dare re-enter the place after witnessing the pouring of the first varietal. Still, the party had not ended for the uninvited, who once laid contorted and buried beneath the hearty vineyard that covered their mass grave. The uninvited [...]

Button the Maltese began the morning ritual of yapping and waking neighbors when he saw Digger the Beagle poke his nose through a small rounded hole in the fence. Digger followed suit, baying back at his neighbor, but unlike most morning, the commotion abruptly stopped a few seconds later. The dogs’ owners didn’t care why [...]

This story was submitted to a writing contest a couple months ago and made it to the top 100 judging, but didn’t place. Everyone has something to hide, but they can’t hide it from me. I see their secrets in a cloud, literally hanging over their heads. I suppose that’s why I became a private [...]

In one of my networking groups, we were challenged to write a fifty word story. Down the Dark Staircase below is my contribution. The second half came out a little to poetic though. She flipped the switch, but no light illuminated. A tight grip on the banister would guide her down the staircase, and unknowingly [...]

I just finished reading Quirk Has Unlikely Hit with Jane Austen-Zombie Mash-up. The porn industry has been retitling Hollywood films for years, so I’m surprised re-writing classics with a horrific twist hasn’t been caught on sooner. Sure, for major publishers it’s all about making money, and we the public have settled for what they produce. [...]

I’ve started a Twitter novel at twitter.com/by_wjhoward. The novel is The Courier, and the entire story is also available here in the works section.

Short but sweet review on Shelfari at http://www.shelfari.com/books/50958/Cat-O-Nine-Tales-And-Other-Stories/bookthread?reviewid=947152

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