This is an expression that gets bandied around all the time. You can usually find it in the blurb of a horror novel as it promises to scare you senseless. It’s a sort of anti-warning to readers that this book… Read More ›
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Five Essential Writing Tips That You Probably Know. But it Doesn’t Hurt to Have a Quick Refresher Now Does it?
I’m starting yet another blog post banging on about how there are so many writing advice blogs out there with valuable tips on them for the budding author, blah blah blah! We all know this. It’s not like you’ve clicked… Read More ›
A Beginner’s Guide to Twitter by A Beginner on Twitter
Well, I never thought I’d be here giving tips on how to use social media. I’ve been a Facebooker for years, back in the days before your grandparents knew how to use the internet and before ‘updating your status’ became… Read More ›
Book Review – The Scarlet Gospels by Clive Barker
I think it’s important to state before I start this review that I am a big fan of Clive Barker. I saw Hellraiser many years ago and it creeped me out like you wouldn’t believe (or maybe you probably would,… Read More ›
Is Being an Author Like Being a Musician?
I’m here again comparing the written word against the sounds made by musical instruments and the human voice. Successful authors have long careers spanning many years with many novels and articles published in much the same way as bands and… Read More ›
Blogging About Writing, or Writing About Blogging, or Just Blogging About Nonsense?
Being a writer is hard. It’s hard, hard work. ‘Nothing really surprising about that intro,’ I hear you scream (or maybe you just think it – screaming at a computer or phone screen is a bit of a strange thing… Read More ›
Remastering Classic Literature
In many of my blog writings I tend to, not always intentionally, compare aspects of books with those of movies and music. For me, these three mediums interweave themselves in most of my daily activities. I enjoy reading not only… Read More ›
iPods vs. Records, Kindles vs. Books
Technology is moving on and it has been for a while or, I suppose, forever. These breakthroughs of mankind have made our lives much more convenient and helped to create a much lazier society. But I’m not complaining, who doesn’t… Read More ›
MORGAN K TANNER, Writer of Horror 