The film adaptation of the graphic novel 300 by Frank Miller I’m afraid doesn’t go much beyond being a graphic novel with stunning cgi. Plainly the target audience of this film wasn’t much beyond 20. It viewed for all of its length as somewhat of a yawn if you were looking for plot, character development, milieu, in short anything that might have made this a great film instead of a dull film with lots of…
The weather last evening was hot and muggy at the Old Stone House. Dinner seemed like an effort, and I, and I knew Gary would, long for something cool, light, crunchy and refreshing. No grilling for us yesterday. So I browsed the garden and my stock to see what I had and came up with this lovely summer salad, I think you’ll find a hit. If you like this, I know you’ll like the other…
Preview copy of Shadow Song, Lorina’s historical fantasy novel, is now on its way from Lulu Publishing. One step closer to the expected release date of September 1, 2007. From a Canadian Author Arises a Canadian Historical Fantasy about the Mysteries of Upper Canada’s Backwoods In a sea of American literature comes the truly Canadian voice of Lorina Stephens, author of Shadow Song, the fourth publication and first novel of this Ontario born and raised…
Lorina’s new anthology of speculative and fantasy short stories, And the Angels Sang, is nearing completion and slated to be released mid-summer. Updates to follow very soon!
Gather any group of writers together and you’ll often hear conversation eventually turn toward annual income, infrequency of royalty statements and payments. Get them in full blow and you’ll find complaints about lack of promotion from their publishers, difficulties with book signings, gripes about contracts, and unreliability of agents. The list can be as impressive as the rejection slips the writers accrued along their way toward publishing success. Enter the burgeoning world of Print on…