The Literary Mercenary

Well, it's that time again. We're prepping turkeys, eyeing Christmas shopping lists, and plotting how we're going to survive the...

Have you ever been reading a book, and for some reason the author insists on giving you the recipe blog treatment? You know, you came here f...

This week I want to talk about a very particular trend that seems to be cropping up in a lot of books. It is, simply put, the tendency that ...

There is a common attitude among readers (and particularly readers of sci fi and fantasy) that if an author is writing a series that they ar...