Category: Fiction Writing

The Power of Imagination

What is imagination? It is the faculty or action of forming new ideas, or images or concepts of external objects not present to the senses. It is the ability of the mind to be creative. Can you imagine how boring life would be if not for the imagination? The Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys books…

Presumed Dead – a Review

Reggie is a psychic who lives and works in Irvine, Kentucky, but no one else in that small town knows about her psychic abilities. And that isn’t the only secret this lady has. Her name isn’t really Reggie. Why doesn’t she want others to know she is a psychic? Why is she using an alias?…

Suffering for Beauty: Ohaguro, the Practice of Blackening Teeth

To what lengths would you go to make yourself attractive to the opposite sex? Would you dye your teeth black? Down through the years, women have bound their feet or worn corsets. Today, some still wear lip plates or neck rings. Here in America, many wear high heels. But women aren’t the only sex to endure discomfort to…

Bodacious Creed – a Review

What if once you died, you could be rebuilt and brought back to life? Before I began to read Bodacious Creed, I saw that it was steampunk zombie western. I know what a zombie is and I know what a western is. But what is steampunk? That is one genre that I hadn’t read before.…

Michael Bray – From Fiction to Reality: A Year Spent With a Paranormal Investigation Team

I’ve been writing now since 2012. Just to think about that passage of time is pretty scary. Since then I’ve turned out lots of books, one of which has been adapted into a film for which I also co-wrote the screenplay. Other titles have since been translated into multiple languages all over the world which…

Butterflies Lost Within The Crooked Moonlight – a Review

What is poetry? According to dictionary.com, poetry is the art of rhythmical composition, written or spoken, for exciting pleasure by beautiful, imaginative, or elevated thoughts. I had to read poetry when I was in school. To be honest, I never thought much of it except for two poems by Edgar Allan Poe: “The Raven” and “Annabel Lee.”…