Multi-award-winning Catriona McPherson shares with us some fun she had teaching a class on character, where she asked her students to dream up the worst cliched characters they could. She took six of the worst and wrote a piece of flash fiction in which they were featured.
Ali Karim, assistant editor of Shots eZine, stops in from across the pond to remember Edward Wright, award-winning author of the John Ray historical thrillers.
Who would have guessed that Edgar Allan Poe influenced the development of the game of Scrabble? Read how Poe’s analysis of the frequency of English letters in his short story “The Gold-Bug” served as a basis for Scrabble’s scoring system almost 100 years later.
Meet Colin Campbell, Yorkshireman, 30-year veteran of the West Yorkshire Police force, and the author of The Resurrection Man series of novels. Campbell shares his thoughts on developing a New York state of mind.
Matt Cook is the author of Sabotage, which he wrote at 19 while an undergraduate at Stanford. There he also published two nonfiction books and cofounded a nonprofit dedicated to government transparency. A professional close-up magician trained at the Hollywood Magic Castle, he has performed in over 80 countries, and enjoys weaving exotic locales into his stories. Cook is now a doctoral student in Economics at Penn. He enjoys travel, scuba, and Latin dancing for fun.
