Tag Archives: Novels

Quote of the day: D. G. Myers on why read fiction any more?

Posted on 18/01/2012 by

‘If reading is the key to self-mastery, fiction is the master key . . . fiction demands that you either identify with the characters’ decisions or distance yourself from them, and this has a powerful effect.  In doing so you … Continue reading →

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Writers’ quote of the day: literary agent Kate Schafer Testerman on self-editing and writers’ groups

Posted on 07/10/2011 by

‘Read everything you can get your hands on!  Read novels in your genre, read books about writing, read author blogs.  And know that just finishing a manuscript, while a personal triumph, doesn’t mean your novel is ready to be shopped.  … Continue reading →

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Writers’ quote of the day: Canadian novelist John Buell on why novels have to be more than setting

Posted on 06/09/2011 by

‘If you’ve got a good story your setting can be virtually anywhere.  And if you happen to be a Canadian, your setting’s going to be Canadian, but if you write a novel whose whole import is that you’re describing the … Continue reading →

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An interesting list of classic heist (robbery) novels by Duane Swierczynski

Posted on 14/08/2011 by

Let’s book ‘em: a sure-fire survey of bank robbery novels Click on the link above for the full list of short reviews.  I have just read this one and it is excellent: Loophole, or How to Rob a Bank (1973) … Continue reading →

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Writers’ quote of the day: author Will Lavender on genre fiction, thriller novels and growing up as a writer

Posted on 04/08/2011 by

‘Thrillers, like all genre fiction, remain for the most part “beneath.”  There is a feeling in literature, more than any other art form, that books meant to simply entertain must be flawed.  There is an entire cache of what critics … Continue reading →

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Book Review: ‘Looking for the King: An Inklings Novel’ by David C. Downing, Ignatius Press, 2010

Posted on 25/05/2011 by

‘Looking for the King: An Inklings Novel’ by David C. Downing, Ignatius Press, 2010 This is a mystery/adventure novel that I very much wanted to like but found myself unable to do so.  It’s not that I strongly dislike it; … Continue reading →

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Book Review: ‘Toward the Gleam’ by T. M. Doran, a good idea poorly executed

Posted on 26/04/2011 by

‘Toward the Gleam’ by T. M. Doran, Ignatius Press, 2011 I have just finished reading this novel and must admit that I was sadly disappointed.  It is advertised as an action adventure in which the main protagonist “races against time” … Continue reading →

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Book Review: ‘The Halcyon Dislocation’ by Peter Kazmaier

Posted on 16/03/2010 by

‘The Halcyon Dislocation’ by Peter Kazmaier Peter Kazmaier is a research scientist in Mississauga and this is his first novel, a science fiction story taking place in a parallel universe.  Due to a laboratory accident an island campus of university … Continue reading →

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