Recently, I was reading a Slate piece on artificial intelligence. Writers, after all, have been…
Audra Kerr Brown keeps her stories short—very short. A writer of flash fiction, Kerr Brown…
Of late, the combination of anti-LGBTQ and anti-book bills coming out of the Iowa legislature…
Here’s the pitch Fritz McDonald gives when asked to describe the graphic novel he co-created…
I am an inveterate Star Trek fan. Whether it’s the original series from the 1960s…
Isaac Hamlet has a story he’s been crafting and recrafting for quite some time. Recently,…
As the calendar turns to November, we enter the darkest portion of the year—the period…
For quite a while now, I’ve devoted this space to conversations with Iowa’s indie authors—the…
This month, I’m sharing some thoughts about a range of books I’ve been reading and…
Longtime readers of this column know that I write about Lawrence Block and his work…
Dennis Maulsby is a versatile writer hailing from Ames who took up writing as a…
Mary Helen Stefaniak’s new novel is a delight. That’s a sentence I easily could have…
(Our apologies! The April 15 reading listed in the e-newsletter was in 2021!) When Russia…
Admittedly, the idea of a bunch of indie (that is, self-published) authors discussing what they…
In a recent virtual event, host Terri LeBlanc of Swamp Fox Bookstore in Marion, Iowa,…