[Warning: Spoilers Ahead] I had planned on writing about darkness in fiction once again, but after looking around the blog tour I decided to switch topics. Becky LuElla Miller and Thomas Clayton Booher both offered interesting thoughts about what, exactly, afflicted Sam Travis, his brother Tommy, and Captain Whiting. Booher wonders if there is an…
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CSFF Blog Tour: Seeing in the Cave
Michael, who is 36, now often refers to gay life as a kind of cave … Had Michael been secretly unhappy as a gay man, and was he now projecting that onto all gay-identified people? I broached the question later that night at his small off-campus apartment, where we sat in his barren kitchen eating…
CSFF Blog Tour: Darkness Follows
What is it that takes a sane, upstanding citizen and turns him into a menace? What makes him destroy his life and hurt everyone he loves? What makes a man a murderer? The darkness. Darkness follows Sam Travis’ family, and now it’s come for him. He struggles against it, but it is by no means…
CSFF Blog Tour: Buyer Beware
I was thinking of doing a post on religion today, but then I decided to gripe about the publisher instead. When I looked through the Amazon reviews for The Ale Boy’s Feast, I saw comments by people who started the book without realizing it was part of a series. And I felt their pain. I…
CSFF Blog Tour: A Vote for Happiness
[Warning: Spoilers, spoilers, spoilers everywhere] Do you know what irony is? Irony is a man wondering if he can find a new life, and then getting killed ten minutes later – due to past sins, no less. I don’t know if Jeffrey Overstreet intended such a morose irony, though he did write it. That was…
CSFF Blog Tour: The Ale Boy’s Feast
(Note: In conjunction with the CSFF Blog Tour, I received a free copy of this book from the publisher.) The king is missing, but frankly, that’s the least of these people’s problems. The people of Abascar are exiles without a home behind them. Bel Amica is an open refuge, except for maybe the refuge part….
CSFF Blog Tour: When Satan Attacks
Have I said how much I like Greg Mitchell’s commentary on The Strange Man? I ought to, because I am about to quote it again. Here he writes about the end of chapter 4: So, this is probably THE most controversial and debated scene in the book among readers and even my editors. Lindsey cries…
CSFF Blog Tour: The Art of the Point and the Point of the Art
The Strange Man opened with an old man telling the sad, strange tale of Joe Hallerin. At the end of the telling, he stood and roared the moral of his story: “And if the Strange Man ever come knockin’ at your door, don’t you ever, ever let him in!” A few chapters later, a mother…
CSFF Blog Tour: The Strange Man
(Note: In conjunction with the CSFF Blog Tour, I received a free copy of this book from the publisher.) Dras has problems. He has no job, no money, no prospects, and no ambition. Plus, he just got gypped on a Snake Eyes GI Joe action figure. But the Strange Man is coming to town, and…
CSFF Blog Tour: The Warring Nations …
I liked The God-Hater. I thought I’d say that before I devoted a post to how it tripped over a peeve of mine. The book has an important subplot revolving around corporate warfare – and that’s not a figure of speech. Myers called corporations the “warring nations of today”. I’ve seen this in science fiction…