Mark Murata's Suburban Fantasy

What is the difference between The Riddler and The Joker? Quite obviously The Riddler is an obsessive-compulsive type who grew up with a lo...

Kari Byron, Tory Belleci, and Grant Imahara have been axed from the long-running everyman science show Mythbusters . They were sometime ref...

In the 1700s, Mary Draper Ingles has everything torn away from her when Shawnee Indians massacre her Virginia settlement. She watches horri...

Pip is an orphan brought up in grinding poverty, but he’s good-natured—he even shows kindness by taking food to a violent escaped convict. ...

To continue from my previous post , back on the 4 th of July I was in an area park. I saw a feature new to me: a large mobile, several fee...

A few weeks ago in Seattle, a woman looked out her apartment window and noticed a drone hovering. As she put it, she was not fully dressed....

The pitch sessions to agents and editors were the main event for most attendees at the PNWA writers conference . Each session had dozens of...

At this year’s PNWA writers conference , I was hoping to see Halie Fewkes, whom I met last year. On Friday when I arrived, I walked into th...

The Pacific Northwest Writers Association holds an annual writers conference down in SeaTac, Washington. Last year’s conference was great...