Sheila's Guests and Reviews

When I was offered the loan of a copy of Philip Dick's A Scanner Darkly I couldn't resist. I love the movies based on Dick's stories. And I've loved every one of his stories I've had the chance to read. It kind of annoyed me that I'd not read this one yet. But what I didn't expect was to find myself in doctor's and dentist's waiting rooms, glued to my phone, frantically reading the next chapter. One my phone! I suppose it's appropriate. After all, Dick was writing of a future world with future technology (and modern-day problems), so my not read on a phone. But my phone...! I'm going to load it up with more books now. I think I'm hooked. It's the one item I'm guaranteed to always have with me, so now I'll always have a book to read. Meanwhile, in paperback, on my tablet, kindle and y computer, and in every spare moment, I read other books. They're all kind of dark. They all scan kind of strange places. And here are my re...

Not everything in life lends itself to easy explanation. Not everything in fiction either, and sometimes the not quite normal worlds of fiction are all the more believable for not explaining everything. Sometimes it's enough just to live, for a little while, in an unreal, paranormal place, looking back perhaps at the real and seeing how much is beyond our understanding. Sometimes it's good to remember we don't know it all. Otherwise we get caught up in arguments about things we don't completely know, and forget to listen to those hints of truth behind the fiction, myth, history or imagination. I enjoy fiction, myth, history and imagination. I'm totally sure there's more out there than I'll ever wrap my mind around. I believe there's much that's been revealed, but that's for my other blog-- inspired by faith and science . Meanwhile I'll read. Find yourself a coffee and see if any of these nicely paranormal tales capture your imagination as t...

It's one of those favorite remembered misunderstandings--the child who stares at flies, watch in one hand and plastic-tipped arrow in the other, obeying an edict that was meant to be an observation: Time flies like an arrow. But this week time has truly flown. I had great plans of books to read, and instead I filled the hours with efforts to fulfill the promise of good news. Good news number one was an email asking for copies of Dribble-IT . Currently only available from Lulu, the price is fine for purchasing online, but I'm not sure what price I can afford to sell it at. I'd long intended to add the book to Createspace, so now, at last, I did it--well, I nearly did it; watch this space and I'll give you the link when the files are finally done. Good news number two was an email from my publisher with a tentative cover image and interior files for my next novel: Infinite Sum. So hours were spent re-reading the interior file, checking for errors of writing or forma...