Novelist/HorrorReviewer/CopyEditor/DevelopmentalEditor/Photographer/UranianAstrologer, from New York, now writing and teaching writing in Cajun Country.
At the Devil's Own Game
When Gina, prostitute from Chicago posing as an apostate nun, crosses paths with Zachary, a Louisiana Satanist posing as a defrocked priest, sparks fly. Each has something that the other requires in order to prevail.
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Sir Christopher Lee, the titular star of Dracula (1958), was born on this day in 1922. Other horror credits include The Curse of Frankenstein (1957), Corridors of Blood (1958), The Mummy (1959), The Devil Rides Out (1967) and The Wicker Man (1973). He passed away in 2015 aged 93.
@atgeiger11 Yes, passive constructions are weak. I just stopped reading a best seller because it WAS loaded with so many examples that it turned my stomach. However, nobody ever died from a being word. If you need the passive voice here and there, use it. It's your world. #amwriting
@TheCraigRussell Just saw your tweet. Thanks. It was a great read. Sorry to be so slow, but I have been buried in work finishing my third novel and grading yucky essays.
Suzanne
A letter to the Editor from December 2010. Read more writing about Christmas from the archives of the LRB by Brigid Brophy, Charles Nicholl, Wendy Doniger, Terry Castle, Frank Kermode, Hilary Mantel, James Wood and Alice Spawls: https://t.co/Y2PME1zdtY