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We’ve no doubt all heard the cliche, “It takes a village to raise a child.” But award-winning author Neil Gaiman turns this phrase on its head and, with The Graveyard Book, explores a much more interesting premise: “It takes a graveyard to raise a child.” The prospect leads to tantalizing questions. For those who can imagine it, can the dead teach a child how to live? Can the dead protect a child from being . . . → Read More: Review: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman 
I had the pleasure today of seeing and hearing acclaimed and award-winning author Jeffrey Ford not once today, but twice! A prolific author in Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Mystery, Jeffrey Ford has written novels, such as The Shadow Year: A Novel, The Girl in the Glass : A Novel, and The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque : A Novel, along with collections of short stories, such as The Drowned Life (P.S.) and The Fantasy . . . → Read More: A lecture and reading by Jeffrey Ford 
What’s it like going to a writers workshop? Are these things worth the expense, time, and effort? What’s it like traveling by boat to a tiny uninhabited, off-the-grid island, to be secluded with ten other attendees off the coast of Maine for a week? Will this end up like Lost or Survivor? Tune in to find out, as I am en route to the Norton Island Writers Workshop, moderated by the novelist Tom . . . → Read More: Norton Island Writers Workshop: pre-arrival Be sure to check out the forthcoming Richmond Noir, an anthology of original noir stories by Dean King, Laura Browder, Howard Owen, Yazmina Beverly, Tom De Haven, X.C. Atkins, Meagan Saunders, Anne Soffee, Clint McCowan, Conrad Persons, Clay Chapman, Pir Rothenberg, David Robbins, Hermine Pinson, and Dennis Danvers. With a Foreward by Tom Robbins. Edited by Andrew Blossom, Brian Castleberry, and Tom De Haven. By the way, rumor has it that the tomb pictured . . . → Read More: Richmond Noir anthology of great noir fiction |
 
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