Category: Reference
A definition of horror
I saw a post that tried to describe what horror was and I had to answer it.
Don’t kiss me in the moonlight
Don’t kiss me in the moonlight, I know where your lips have been. © Copyright 2015 by Kevin Fraleigh.
Nazis, Psychopaths, and CEOs
Psychopaths and Nazis are fun to write about. I’ve written about both. Henry Turner (Any Tomorrow: The Calling) is a classic psychopath―cold, unemotional, violent, and abusive. Of course, since the Any Tomorrow series is dark fantasy, the trigger for his psychopathy isn’t his childhood or his hatred for small furry…
What Stories Influence You?
Whether you’re a writer or a reader, what you read becomes an element of the psychological sum of your parts. Consciously or subconsciously all the words, images, and emotions associated with what you read become part of you. They find a niche somewhere inside your mind and wait there, quietly…
Any Tomorrow: The Calling in the Diesel Bookstore
I discovered yesterday that Any Tomorrow: The Calling is now in the Diesel eBook Store catalog. Same reasonable price, just $2.99. I’d really like to see sales from each of the venues (Diesel, Barnes & Noble, Apple, Sony etc.) so I’ll know how much of that $2.99 I actually get…
Mourning the OED
It has finally happened. The last great bastion of the English language has sequestered itself into elitism. The Holy OED, the Oxford English Dictionary on-line, is now available only by paid subscription. What was the ideal reference for writers has lowered itself into the abyss of filthy lucre and restricted…