The Face of Death, the new thriller by Cody McFadyen is my first foray into the writing style of this author but it won’t be my last.  
The Face of Death mines the popular and fertile fiction ground of the unique serial killer. 

A two-part review of “Cell” and Stephen King’s “On Writing, a Memoir of the Craft”

Part II (See Part I)

I picked up “On Writing” and looked for inspiration.  This was a re-read for me, when I first got the book, I kept thinking, “well this guy just doesn’t understand me as a writer (even though I wasn’t a writer yet, I was a wanna be).  Turns out, he understood me too well and I didn’t like it at the time.  Ah, the lessons we learn as we grow.

A two-part review of “Cell” and Stephen King’s “On Writing, a Memoir of the Craft”

Part I:

Forget the circle of life, how about the shotgun of shoulda.  Sometimes you have an inspiration on writing because a single little thing pops up on your radar and you see it and you are off and running.  Sometimes a friend says, “You know you should write about…” Sometimes you just have to get some words down and you hope the topic comes to you after you flounder a bit in the writing pool.  But then there are times when the universe gives you so many head slaps you just know you best get to that topic, even if it doesn’t make any sense as to why now.  This post is one of the latter.