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January 26, 2023
Lady Don’t Fall Backwards by Darcy Sarto
Sometimes, the internet turns up things you never expected to find. As a long-time fan of Hancock’s Half Hour, I’d loved the episode “The Missing Page” since childhood. I could remember Tony Hancock and Sid James getting “Lady Don’t Fall Backwards” out of the library and becoming fixated on trying to work out who the […]
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January 24, 2023
Food City by Michael LaRonn
When I first heard author Michael LaRonn say that he had written a story containing "terrorist vegetables,” I knew this was one I had to read. A Vegetable Liberation Front? Bring it on! I was not to be disappointed. In the front matter, he warns that “this book, quite frankly, is going to be the […]
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The Black Coat by Neamat Imam
Review by Steve Shahbazian I first heard of Neamat Imam’s The Black Coat in a newsletter from The Literary Consultancy. “Since the day I mailed my manuscript to TLC, they would not stop until I was accepted by a top literary agent,” it said. Hmm, I thought. Maybe worth checking out. Having read the story, […]
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January 4, 2023
Death and Deconstruction – why writing has deteriorated
"And this was such a nice wall until you painted on it." Image: Graffiti wall with vandalism, street art background by Leszek Glasner on depositphotos.com Not Long Ago, In a Galaxy that is Our Own.... It’s not often that Jacques Derrida and Luke Skywalker are mentioned in the same breath, so when they do, we […]
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December 5, 2022
Delphine Descends by Darrel William Moore
Delphine Descends is the second novel by author Darrel William Moore. Told from multiple perspectives, it is the story of Delphine von Dallas as she negotiates the treacherous politics of the Imperial Network. After her home planet of Leto is attacked and her family killed, she is taken to the prison planet of Furoris to […]
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June 24, 2020
Dystopia and the End of the World – an Interview with Professor Gregory Claeys
Apocalyptic city sunset — Photo by Vicnt2815 Welcome to interview no.1, where I - author Steve Shahbazian - interview the great and the good. Having just started a blog, I was faced with the question: what do I blog about? Like authors before me, I thought about book reviews or essays on whatever came to […]
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October 8, 2019
How to motivate yourself as an author
Photo by Patrick Fore on Unsplash unsplash-logoPatrick Fore A few months ago, my good friend Jan asked me how I found the motivation to write, which got me thinking: how do I motivate myself as an author? Writing for me is largely an unconscious process – I write and the words flow. I rarely […]
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