Category: Featured

Here are some of my featured (a.k.a. “most popular” or “ones I happen to really like”) posts.

I hope you enjoy them!

Coming Soon–In Time for Halloween!

I’ve got two pieces of work that will be published by Halloween. Fittingly, both are horror pieces!

A short story, Traitorous, Lying, Little Star will be republished by Digital Fiction Publishing Corp. in their all women horror anthology, Killing It Softly. The Kindle version may be available as soon as next month. I’ll keep you posted here and on my author Facebook page.

A poem, “That Witch We Dread,” will be published in the third anthology of the New England Horror Writers, titled Wicked Witches.

I have some other writerly news as well, but I’m not ready to disclose it yet.

NEW! I’d love to get more followers both here and at my Facebook page, so please share a link to either on Facebook, twitter, or elsewhere, and if you do I’ll enter your name into a drawing to receive a free book! (Feel free to tag me or zip me an email if you’re afraid I won’t see that you’ve shared.) The drawing will take place on or around Halloween, and the giveaway will involve at least one of the books mentioned above. I’m thinking I’ll draw at least two names, maybe three if I’m feeling generous 😉

 

 

 

Religion and Scifi Works from Panel at Ro-Con

It’s taken over a week, but here is the list of works mentioned at the “Scifi/Fantasy Works as Religion” panel I was on at Ro-Con. We spent the bulk of the time discussing why SF/F works take the “place” of religion for some people. Then we spent several minutes discussing some works that have religious themes–either by incorporating existing religions, creating new ones, or having religion-like aspects.

The ones with asterisks (*) are among my personal favorites.

The ones indicated with  ^^ symbols before them denote authors who have religious/political views that are offensive to many people, or the author has otherwise behaved abhorrently (in the case of Marion Zimmer Bradley.) So, if you’re interested in these works but don’t want to support the authors/their estates, try to borrow a copy or get these works from your public library rather than purchasing them.

Books:

*American Gods by Neil Gaiman

Terry Pratchett’s “Small Gods” series

Almost anything by Ursula LeGuin

*Earthseed books by Octavia Butler (Parable of the Sower, Parable of the Talents. And for the record, Parable of the Sower is my FAVE BOOK EVA.)

*A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller

*The Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons

Dune saga by Frank Herbert

^^ Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley

*The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell (and the follow-up, Children of God)

^^ Many works by C.S. Lewis

^^ Some works by Orson Scott Card

The Left Behind Series

Waiting for the Galactic Bus by Parke Goodwin

Various works by Robert Anton Wilson (especially those co-authored with by Robert Shea)

The Future of an Illusion by Sigmund Freud

 

TV:

Babylon 5

*Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Supernatural

Lucifer

*The Leftovers (it was mentioned that there is a movie by the same name, but I couldn’t find a reference to it online)

 

As you can see, this is a small list, since this was not the crux of the panel. But let’s keep the discussion going! Have any comments on what’s listed, or want to add your own suggestions? Comment below.