BEHIND THE BOOK WITH MARY ANNA EVANS
I admire the ancient cultures of the Americas very much and I am always happy when a story gives me a chance to highlight their achievements and the things they have to teach the rest of us. In Catacombs, I continue with that theme by centering the book around a conference celebrating indigenous art that brings together people indigenous to the Americas with immigrants and descendants of immigrants from Asia, Africa, and Europe. Humanity has created so many things worth celebrating.
INTERVIEW WITH LEILA MEACHAM
I just sit down and write watching my characters evolve. I do not have much of a plan for the place, characters, and plot before I begin writing. I also do not sign up front contracts. For heaven’s sake I am eighty years old and didn’t start writing until I was 65. After five years, at the age of seventy, by a string of miracles, my book was picked up by a literary agent. I have been writing ever since.
Pet Spotlight: Jeremy Finley and Thor
Thor So I’m convinced there is a class system with dogs. Our new puppy proved it to me. Just as we in the lower and middle class look with scorn and...
Goodbye, Mad Magazine
Art is not free despite what the internet tells you. Music, books, comics, plays, movies paintings etc all have to be created. The people who create these things deserve to get paid, they have rent to pay and need to eat.
Bryan Catches Up
Hey Crimespree readers! It is your loyal fanboy/reviewer, Bryan VanMeter returning to the Crimespree Crew once again. For the last two and a half years, I have been attending the University of New Orleans while working on a Masters’ degree in Literature. While that exposed me to a myriad of amazing authors, styles, and works I had not encountered before, it did not leave me a lot of time for reading contemporary novels that you may be interested in reading. Instead, they have been slowly amassing in TBR pile, which had come to resemble the Tower of Babylon.
