Originally Published in Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, February-March 2016. This is not a review of Marvel’s Jessica Jones miniseries on Netflix. It begins there but heads other places. If you insist, I will establish right away that the comic book it comes from, Alias, is one of my all-time favorites, that I think the miniseries […]
Letter enclosed with a signed copy of the first Gustav Gloom novel sent to a young fan who had a slow start reading but was able to claim that book as the first… novel she had ever finished and loved. Dear ___________: Your teacher has told me that you loved the first Gustav Gloom book […]
First Published on Facebook 29 September 2014. A key misunderstanding people have about their relationship with fiction is the belief that their favorite characters are people they would like to hang around with. In a sense, this is what they’re doing when they read a story or watch a TV show; they are hanging out […]