Anybody who’s anybody in the field of speculative fiction knows the name of China Mieville. He’s only the winner of three Arthur C. Clarke awards, two British Fantasy Awards, three Locus Awards, one Hugo, and one World Fantasy Award. His work in 2010 was The City and the City, a noir novel that has received…
Well, it seems I was tagged by the amazing J.A. Romano in this new meme about a writer’s work and whatnot. Don’t worry; I don’t ramble. Much. 1. What’s the name of your current WIP? As of right now, it appears to be called The Cold Silence. But that could change umpteen times from finishing.…
“You’re broke, eh?” “I been shaking two nickels together for a month, trying to get them to mate.” This is the novel that penned the hardboiled genre, giving greatness to short, snappy sentences and tough anti-heroes. What this is not, however, is a noir novel. One is defined by the terse sentence structure, the tarter…
“Flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo. If you can’t reach heaven, raise hell.” Why do we love action heroes who can take down a giant of a man, brush through firepower without a wink of blood, and still outsmart the villain with an IQ of 165? Why is it that we like the brilliant, the…
“’We all have walls, don’t we? You have your cynicism, her and her ice-queen act. A wall to keep everyone away, outside, so they won’t see the fear.’” I entered this book expecting a novel in the same vein as Daniel Polansky’s Low Town. This was mildly different. More of a better the Dresden Files…
Acerbic Writing 