Coming of age, darkly: Fiction about deeply troubled teens
Best coming-of-age fiction about deeply troubled teens Coming of age is a threshold - but where does it lead? And what are we becoming? And while we grow out of [...]
Sea Witch Chronicles, Voyage #6
Behind every great man is a woman, I've heard it said, and behind every good pirate is a witch. A good witch, I might add. Gallows Wake, number six in [...]
On the Road in the 21st Century
The best road trips aren't planned, they just happen. Jack Kerouac's On the Road seems to just happen; he writes in an episodic, stream-of-consciousness burst of life. Kerouac is a [...]
Best Bios about 18th & 19th century crossdressers
As the author of the historical novel Star-Crossed, a title that plays on the practice of cross-dressing, I was asked by Ben Fox, founder of Shepherd.com to share my five [...]