Mark Murata's Suburban Fantasy

The accomplished writer Patricia Wrede is giving tips on her blog on fixing chapter one of your manuscript. These are very helpful. ...

Hello, everyone. I’m doing a guest post at Misha Gericke’s blog today. Her blog has the ambitious title The Five Year Plan . You can find ...

My previous post showed how much I liked the movie Edge of Tomorrow . But the people in charge have bungled the novel to go with it. When ...

Drafted into combat, William Cage, a self-centered coward, finds himself in a desperate battle against grotesque aliens who have overrun Eu...

I’ve had more than one freelance editor go over my manuscript for The War of the Worlds and Fairies , but the more recent once gave me some...

Carrie Butler, who often gives helpful advice to writers on her blog , posed an interesting challenge: write a letter to a younger version ...

I saw the new Godzilla movie. He gets along so swimmingly, it could be subtitled, Godzilla Joins the Navy .  If you like giant monster mov...

Last week I attended a middle school play. Among other performances were eighth graders who recited their own compositions on historical fi...

The Cinerama—a gigantic theater in downtown Seattle—will be hosting a Battlestar Galactica event this Saturday. After a screening of a fan-...