August 14, 2012 Quote – Letting People be Themselves “You are what you are… as we are what we are. Let it be so.” -Charles de Lint – Mulengro (Orb 2003) Categories Quotes Comments: 2
August 13, 2012 Performing the Monster A Review of Ian Rogers’ Temporary Monsters (Burning Effigy Press, Toronto: 2009) By Derek Newman-Stille Peterborough author Ian Rogers’ Temporary Monsters is a novella about illusion and performance, the insubstantiality of life and the performativity of everyday existence. Rogers sets his story of monstrosity amongst a performative group of people, actors and actresses, who need to be ‘on’ while on-screen... Categories Fiction Book Reviews Comment: 1
August 12, 2012 Quote – Media and Trash Media “In my experience, the only thing that works faster than the media is the trash media. Though sometimes I can’t even tell the difference between the two.” -Ian Rogers – Temporary Monsters (Burning Effigy Press, 2009) Categories Quotes Comments: 0
August 11, 2012 The Canadian Response to Mercedes Lackey’s Five Hundred Kingdoms A review of Lindsey Carmichael’s The Prince and the Hedgewitch (in Canadian Tales of the Fantastic, Red Tuque Books, Penticton, BC, 2011) By Derek Newman-Stille To anyone who has read Mercedes Lackey’s Five Hundred Kingdoms series, Lindsey Carmichael’s The Prince and the Hedgewitch will strike a familiar cord. Like Lackey’s series, Carmichael’s short story plays with the idea of a... Categories Fiction Book Reviews Comments: 3
August 10, 2012 Quote – Save Your Questions on Surreal Nights, Go With The Flow “This was already turning out to be a surreal night, and I had learned from experience that when things start to take on a Lynchian vibe, it’s always better to save your questions and just go with the flow.” -Ian Rogers – The Ash Angels (Burning Effigy Press, 2010) Categories Quotes Comments: 0
August 9, 2012 Quote- Always Been Fools Who Follow Leaders Without Thought “All though history there have been fools like you and they’ve caused wars and disasters and misery. Fools without minds of their own, who follow their leader without thought, without stopping to ask if their leader knows what he is doing. Leaders like Genghis Khan, like Starbusch, like Hitler, leaders who manipulate their followers like puppets in pursuit of their... Categories Quotes Comments: 0
August 8, 2012 Hockey 30 Days of Night in Canada A Review of Sudden Death Overtime by Steve Vernon (Crossroad Press, 2012) By Derek Newman-Stille In his Sudden Death Overtime, Steve Vernon creates an unusual cast of characters in an epic battle on and off the ice. Vernon takes a group of old Newfoundland hockey players from a small, one-pub town and faces them against an encroaching threat of outsiders.... Categories Fiction Book Reviews Comments: 0
August 7, 2012 Quote – Welcoming Nightmares as Company “The nightmares were her company these days. She welcomed them as a lonely woman welcomes the nightly visit of a phantom lover.” -Steve Vernon – Sudden Death Overtime (Crossroad Press, 2012) Categories Quotes Comments: 0
August 6, 2012 Interview with Steve Vernon An Interview with Steve Vernon About Himself and His Recent Novella Sudden Death Overtime By Derek Newman-Stille It is always a great opportunity to be able to do an interview of an author about a specific work and I want to thank Mr. Vernon for allowing me to interview him and for giving the readers some insights into himself and... Categories Interviews Comments: 7