Author Archives: RieSheridanRose
RieView: "I Wandered From New Orleans" — 5 Stars
Tracy Conway’s I Wandered From New Orleans: Poems from the South is a well-crafted book, very professional in design, and an impressive size for a volume of poetry. When I started to read the poems, I was taken to a … Continue reading
RieView: “Living Færie: Looking for the Green Man” — 4 Stars
I have been trading poetry books with several poets on the Amazon Poetry Forum. Here is the first review I posted on Amazon as a result: John A. Mills’ poetry in Living Færie: Looking for the Green Man is a … Continue reading
RieView: Jekyll
I had heard a great deal about Jekyll(6 episodes on BBC in 2007) but had never seen it. Now that I have the glory that is Netflix Instant Queue, I decided to indulge my curiosity and give it a look. … Continue reading
Making NaNo Fun
I always enjoy National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). I’ve looked forward to November since 2003. I’ve finished my 50k words 3 out of 7 years, and gotten one published novel and one that is in solid second draft stage (though … Continue reading
What are the key elements of Steampunk?
I have a notion of some of them: Victorian sensibilities, machinery out-of-time, adventuresome ideals…but I know that I don’t fully understand the genre. Having received a challenge to write a Steampunk novel for NaNoWriMo and having gleefully accepted (because I’ve … Continue reading
RieView: Seeing RED
Ever since we saw the first trailers for RED with Bruce Willis, we’ve anticipated going to see it. And from the first, we agreed it was a Drafthouse movie. Some things just are… It was everything I expected it to … Continue reading
Who's Your Hero?
I was watching an episode of the latest British incarnation of ROBIN HOOD the other day, and I was struck by something… ROBIN HOOD is the English SUPERMAN, isn’t he? In America, we are constantly re-envisioning the Superman story — … Continue reading
Baby steps
Well, here we go. Over the next few weeks, I will be learning how this interface works, so things will be in a state of flux, but I will finally have a new home for the website that will be … Continue reading