I loved Overreader‘s description from last year so much that I’m mostly stealing it. Here ya go: It’s Armchair Audies time! What’s that? Never heard of them? Well, they’re new. The Audies are annual “awards recognizing distinction in audiobooks and spoken word entertainment” and are awarded in June. [Over a hundred audiobooks are nominated in more than twenty different categories.] [...]
On the weekend of March 7-9, I went to quite a few sessions at the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature. Today, I’m going to write about what I heard (and learned) at a session called “Creating Compelling Literary Characters: Good, Evil and Lolita’s Fingers”. Find out how, in both Ashes of the East and his latest [...]
On the weekend of March 7-9, I went to quite a few sessions at the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature. Today, I’m going to write about what I heard (and learned) at a session called “The English Language: Hero or Villain?”. For many decades and for many people, the English language has been considered the [...]
On the weekend of March 7-9, I went to quite a few sessions at the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature. Today, I’m going to write about what I heard (and learned) at a session called “Page to Screen to Page”: Readers are often passionate about how their literary heroes are translated from page to screen, [...]
On the weekend of March 7-9, I went to quite a few sessions at the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature. Today, I’m going to write about what I heard (and learned) at a session called “The Blogging Panel”: Do you blog? Why would you? Who would you write to and is it just another reason [...]
