Tag: The Art of Writing

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‘Screw the snobbish literati’: was Kurt Vonnegut a science-fiction writer? | Books | The Guardian

‘Screw the snobbish literati’: was Kurt Vonnegut a science-fiction writer? | Books | The Guardian
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Selections from One-Star Amazon Reviews of Flannery O’Connor’s Short Story Collections and Novels

Selections from One-Star Amazon Reviews of Flannery O’Connor’s Short Story Collections and Novels

http://biblioklept.org/2019/03/25/selections-from-one-star-amazon-reviews-of-flannery-oconnors-short-story-collections-and-novels-2/
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I like this article’s different approach to reviewing a work: taking the comments from one rating. In some ways, choosing the comments from the one-star rating is more interesting (and telling) than choosing the typical hyperbole from the five-star rating.

A review of Octavia Butler’s dystopian novel Parable of the Sower

A review of Octavia Butler’s dystopian novel Parable of the Sower

http://biblioklept.org/2019/03/25/a-review-of-octavia-butlers-dystopian-novel-parable-of-the-sower/
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Electric Literature Moves to WordPress — Here’s How an Indie Publisher Thrives on the Open Web

Electric Literature Moves to WordPress — Here’s How an Indie Publisher Thrives on the Open Web

http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2019/03/25/electric-literature-moves-to-wordpress/
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Do Not Try This at Home: The Worst Blogging “Strategy” Ever

Do Not Try This at Home: The Worst Blogging “Strategy” Ever

http://artofblogging.net/2019/03/25/do-not-try-this-at-home-the-worst-blogging-strategy-ever/
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“Diabolical: Three Tales of Jack Thurston and Revenge” is Available on Kindle

Jack Thurston is a retired professor of medieval literature and history. He is also a widower and father and a retired sorcerer who has returned to the black arts to exact revenge for the death of his wife, daughter, and brother. He has an intriguing position in the universe at a focal point of life, the afterlife, logic and reason, anger and hatred, the ancient and the modern worlds, grief and his attempts to escape grief through self-destruction. Though he wants to have the peace he once found with his wife, Agatha, he is pulled in many directions by circumstance and by his powerful negative emotions.

I am a fan of the old school horror practiced by such authors as H.P. Lovecraft, Poe, Edward Lucas White, and Arthur Machen.  I endeavor to make a story as terrifying and suspenseful for the reader as possible without resorting to gratuitous blood and gore for a simple shock or quick feeling of disgust.

This collection of three short tales is perfect for those who have only a few short breaks to escape into the hidden world of horror, black magic, sorcery, and anger-fueled revenge.

You can find this and other works at my Amazon author’s page:  www.amazon.com/author/philslattery.

Currently, Jack has a Twitter account (@jthurston666), where he has attracted a small following and where it has only recently been revealed that he is fictional. Jack has his own blog at jackthurstonblog.wordpress.com (a work in progress) and his own e-mail at jackthurston666@gmail.com.

Information on more social media accounts and other characters (as they are developed) can be found at: philslattery.wordpress.com. Please interact with him at any of his social media accounts as you would with a real person.

Show your appreciation for these stories by leaving a review on Amazon, Goodreads, or other social media.

If you enjoy horror, check out my collection of horror short stories A Tale of Hell and Other Works of Horror: Stories of wizards, werewolves, serial killers, alien worlds, and the damned, which includes these stories.