Tag: Links
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Stephen King’s IT Parade: The Booklist Reader
Anybody getting excited for the new movie adaptation of IT? I am not sure it will be as good as The Gunslinger, but my hopes are high, as IT is probably the Stephen King book I have read more than any other. (Its competition is The Stand–I can’t remember which one I’ve read more times.) I don’t quite feel up…
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Are you ready for a summer reading challenge?
Calling all readers! If you follow the annual Tournament of Books held by the Morning News, you may want to take part in their summer reading challenge. It’s only six books over the summer, so it’s perfectly doable. I’ve read one of the selections, Ill Will by Dan Chaon, which I recommend if you like your books…
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The Handmaid’s Tale…
Y’all may not have noticed, but I truly love Margaret Atwood. Living The Handmaid’s Tale: a real-life horror story. And, in case you didn’t realize, The Handmaid’s Tale is feminist. Margaret Atwood–high priestess of fiction, yes.
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For all the writers out there… Links!
Classic story structures and what they can teach us about novel plotting. Infographic: The key book publishing paths. How writer’s workshops can be hostile, by Pulitzer Prize winner Viet Thanh Nguyen. From Chuck Wendig, a “hot steaming sack of business advice” for writers. John Scalzi explains the concept of the “brain eater,” a danger lurking…
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Stephen King is always appropriate…
Stephen King is one of my favorite writers, so here’s a little thing he wrote about Donald Trump. Here’s the trailer for The Dark Tower, because we need that now. And just for fun, here are pop songs reimagined as Stephen King book covers.
Shannon Turlington 