Publishing Advice
“I once asked this literary agent what kind of writing paid the best… he said, “Ransom notes.” –Get Shorty, 1995 The bottom line o...
Genre: Zombie Realism
Of the horror genres that are cycling through the public consciousness, the shambling threat that is zombie realism has caught my attention. It started with War...
Angelology
Although it presents an interesting premise, Angelology is limited by its awkward grasp of language. Angelolgy would make a half decent movie but is a less then...
11 Day Book Challenge: Day Eleven: Five Authors
DAY ELEVEN IS FINALLY HERE! Wooooo! I made it! Today’s topic is five authors I recommend. I feel like I’ve been repeating myself constantly through ...
11 Day Book Challenge: Day Ten: Least Favourite Book
As mentioned yesterday I’m an extremely picky Reader, but I don’t hate a book. It takes a lot to get me to hate a book but when I do I tend to devo...
11 Day Book Challenge: Day Nine: Two Books You’ve Disliked.
I’m pretty picky when it comes to reading books. I’ve been making an effort to try and branch out into different genres which has been both frighten...
11 Day Book Challenge: Day Eight: Five Must Read Books
In previous posts under this challenge I have spoken about my favourite books. I figure I’ll narrow my focus for today’s Challenge back to the topic of this web...
11 Day Book Challenge: Day Seven: Favourite Plot
I have a friend who’s favourite plot is Pride and Prejudice. He loves the story about the guy who is kind of a douche who meets a girl and she helps him o...
11 Day Book Challenge: Day 6: Favourite Quote from Your Favourite Book
“I can believe things that are true and things that aren’t true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they’re true or not. I can believe in...
11 Day Book Challenge: Day Five: Favourite Thing You’ve Read on the Internet
I love webcomics. No, I really love webcomics. So today’s blog post will be my five favourite webcomics (in no specific order). So here we go: 1. Gunnerkr...
11 Day Book Challenge: Day Four: Your Books vs eBooks
“Real” Books vs eBooks? Why? The Books vs eBooks debate, a never ending battle between technophiles and purists…. This post will have to be sh...
11 Day Book Challenge: Day Three: Your Favourite Author
Favourite Author – Which Was Your Favourite Book by Him. Normally my answer would be Neil Gaiman and American Gods, but I wrote about that yesterday. So f...
11 Day Book Challenge: Day Two: Your Favourite Book
I have a lot of favourite books and series making this question near impossible to answer. The book that I finally settled on was this:
11 Day Book Challenge: Day One: Your Favourite Quote
Here at Death of the Author it is fairly obvious that we fail at completing every challenge that we set out for ourselves. Now I could go off an a long winded r...
Death of the Author is coming to CONBRAVO!
For the last few years Read and I have made it a tradition to go to Con Bravo. Well this year we’re throwing it up and hosting a Panel (which we are both ...
First Trailer for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
The first trailer for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug hit the internet today. The movie will be released December 13, 2013. [youtube https://www.youtube.com...
Divergent Casting Photo Reveal: First look at Four
Recently EW released the first picture of Theo James in the role of Four from the set of Divergent. For those of you who have been hiding under a rock for the l...
Inspiration
Life always of presenting you with the unexpected. A passing word will come back to haunt us, or a chapter of our we thought was done will blow itself wide open...