![]() I hope that my books can provide that escape to readers who need it. ![]() While I read all genres, I always come back to mysteries, and cozies, in particular, when I’m looking for an escape. I have loved cozy mysteries since I was a child, reading Nancy Drew and graduating to Lillian Jackson Braun’s “The Cat Who” series. ![]() WHY DID YOU CHOOSE TO WRITE COZY MYSTERIES?
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5/31/2023 0 Comments Not even bones book![]() ![]() Agent: Suzie Townsend, New Leaf Literary. The thrilling plot proves thought-provoking, and it concludes with more questions than answers. Occasionally graphic and frequently featuring unthinkable conflicts, the narrative spotlights the importance of bodily autonomy and offers readers a glimpse into a murderous us-vs.-them mindset. ![]() This sets off a chain of events that plunges Nita further into the black market world, only this time as a commodity rather than a supplier. When Nitas mother brings home a live specimen, Nita quickly realizes that she doesnt want to do this anymore, especially when the monster is just a. Shes not the one who hunts, kills, and sells monsters on the black market thats her mothers jobNita only dissects and packages them. After Nita comes up against one hard and fast moral line she won’t cross-slicing pieces from a live specimen, a boy-she defies her cruel mother, who doesn’t take disobedience lightly. Nita is content not to think about her work. Nita, herself a self-healing unnatural, has the grim task of dissecting the corpses, though she likes it just fine. ![]() ![]() In Peru, 17-year-old Nita’s mother hunts and kills “unnaturals,” supernatural beings who coexist with humans, and her father sells their body parts online. Author Schaeffer debuts with a dark fantasy tale of survival. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Then I realized it had a baby in it, and the baby was angry. But this story came to me all on its own. ![]() I took a long break from the short story, except when asked to contribute to something. But then came essays, then poems, then novels-screenplays were mixed in there too. I started out as a short story writer, stubbornly resistant to all other genres. I wanted to try her voice out in an extended form, a story. The poems often focus on a particular moment in life: Katherine Hepburn discovers the dead body of her brother in an attic, or painter Mary Cassatt. I also wanted to write from the voice I’d found in poems-this woman with two stiff buns worn ho rnish on her head, who spoke using words that have been dropped from English a strange, wild, bedridden woman writing letters (and warnings) to her lover. Lizzie Borden in Love, a collection of poems by national bestselling author Julianna Baggott, offers poignant commentary in the voices of women as varied as Mary Todd Lincoln and Monica Lewinsky. But she came back to me this past year as I was thinking about tropes in horror-in particular, Frankenstein’s monster. Another contributor to A Very Angry Baby: The Anthology provides insight on her story’s conception: I was obsessed with Marie Curie years ago while writing a series of poems about her and her daughter, some of which were part of my collection called Lizzie Borden in Love. ![]() 5/31/2023 0 Comments Cosmos pale blue dot![]() ![]() Sagan sees humanity's future in the stars. The exploration and eventual settlement of other worlds is neither a fantasy nor luxury, insists Sagan, but rather a necessary condition for the survival of the human race. In Pale Blue Dot, Sagan traces the spellbinding history of our launch into the cosmos and assesses the future that looms before us as we move out into our own solar system and on to distant galaxies beyond. Now in this stunning sequel, Carl Sagan completes his revolutionary journey through space and time.įuture generations will look back on our epoch as the time when the human race finally broke into a radically new frontier-space. Preserve and cherish that pale blue dot are creatures of the cosmos light years. In Cosmos, the late astronomer Carl Sagan cast his gaze over the magnificent mystery of the Universe and made it accessible to millions of people around the world. Carl Sagan said of the image: '.a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. ![]() perhaps the best of Carl Sagan's books."- The Washington Post Book World (front page review) Pale Blue Dot: Few images from space are as iconic as the Pale Blue Dot, taken by Voyager 1. ![]() |