Motherhood is often presented as a beautiful, tender experience: new mommies cradle their babies and coo, bedrooms are given a fresh coat of paint and decorated in celebration, and everyone smiles and sighs happily. The fact is, motherhood is tough, and it takes a lot of energy, moral fortitude, and plain old-fashioned physical strength to […]
If there’s one plot device that’s hard to successfully translate to the page, it’s computer hacking; it’s no simple task to generate excitement around someone typing manically on a keyboard and muttering “we’re in!” while madly launching rootkits and packet sniffers. Yet a select few sci-fi books deal with the subject with a bit more flash and wit—Neuromancer, Snow […]
Chuck Wendig has a lot going on. Even as his work on the Star Wars: Aftermath trilogy garners him an imperial star destroyer’s worth of new readers, his work continues apace on a ton of projects that are parsecs removed from a certain galaxy far, far away. Among his many endeavors he’s: a feisty blogger, a how-to-write guru, and the creator of one of my […]