Say what? How criticism is a special gift (and how I did something stupid while writing this post)

Hi All! Soooo, I wrote this whole long post earlier today. It was poignant, it was insightful, it was funny…it disappeared into the ether, never to return, when I tried to send it. That is, of course, 100% my own fault. I knew my email program had a tendency not to back things up well. […]

What’s my main character’s worst nightmare?

Hello! It’s another warm Saturday here in North Carolina, so I’m looking forward to another deep and hopefully refreshing dive into my characters’ psyches. I thought it would be fun–well, fun for me, at least–to put my somewhat dubious side-quest reading into psychology and personality types to use this summer in an examination of my […]

What’s Jung got to do with it? A deep dive into personality types (Part 1)

Hello, and happy June! I hope you’re enjoying the approach to midsummer/midwinter. Here summer is definitely coming up on us. Summer is our longest season in North Carolina, and it starts heralding its arrival sometime in May or even April, and hangs around until early October. So we are girding our loins and checking our […]

“My True Type” by Dr. A.J. Drenth

My True Type Dr. A.J. Drenth Some people collect kitschy religious objects and use them to connect to a spiritual realm. Some people read self-help books and use them to convince themselves that they’re going to turn their lives around. I read about personality type. What can I say: it’s a sickness. But in all […]

“Astrologer’s Proof” by David John Jaegers

Rufus is on a mission to prove the validity of astrology. To do so, he teams up with other like-minded and well-funded individuals to effect one of the most massive data heists in the history of data heists. “Astrologer’s Proof” covers these heists and the subsequent efforts to use the data, and the fallout it […]

E. P. Clark: Author, Book Reviewer, and All-Around Literary Handiwoman

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