10 great science fiction novels I’ve read in 2015

I don’t read nearly as much science fiction these days as I did back in medieval times, when I was a teenager. But I still go out of my way to check out the Hugo and Nebula Award-winners and just about anything else that’s new either written by…

7 Classic Books that taught me 7 Principles of Life.

By Lisa Marie Burgess

When I woke up this morning, I sat up in bed and glanced over at the bookshelf in my room. I started thinking about the principles of what some of the older books had taught me and how those principles have impacted my life. I…

Bad Book Reviews: Not About Your Book, But About Your Readers’ Expectations

Several months ago, when I was planning the promotion for my first book, On Hearing of My Mother’s Death Six Years After It Happened: A Daughter’s Memoir of Mental Illness, I decided to publish some…

I wrote a review of “Fain the Sorceror” by Steve Aylett several years ago. I’ve decided to post it here for no good reason.

The late Robert Jordan claimed he would not stop writing “until they nailed shut his coffin”. This was probably a wise move, for had he stopped writing, his imagination may have started working, thereby…