Notes from the armchair

Author Interview - Rene Astle (aka C. Rene Astle)

Author Interview - Rene Astle (aka C. Rene Astle)

Yes, that’s really me. I believe that’s my dad’s finger telling me I should be looking at the camera. This is the only picture from the photo booth, so I...

Author Interview - Rene Astle (aka C. Rene Astle)

Yes, that’s really me. I believe that’s my dad’s finger telling me I should be looking at the camera. This is the only picture from the photo booth, so I...

Author Interview - Jeannette Bedard

Author Interview - Jeannette Bedard

It was a dark and stormy night... This was the first line of the first piece of fiction I ever wrote. I think I was about ten at the time...

Author Interview - Jeannette Bedard

It was a dark and stormy night... This was the first line of the first piece of fiction I ever wrote. I think I was about ten at the time...

Block universes, hidden suits and secret rooms

Block universes, hidden suits and secret rooms

Sometimes I stumble across ideas that seem to fit together (at least in my brain) and inspire me to take a stab at writing my own take on them. Beneath...

Block universes, hidden suits and secret rooms

Sometimes I stumble across ideas that seem to fit together (at least in my brain) and inspire me to take a stab at writing my own take on them. Beneath...

What's so mysterious about the Lake of Bones?

What's so mysterious about the Lake of Bones?

Roopkund Lake is a small, glacial lake located high in the Himalayas. It’s also called Skeleton Lake or Mystery Lake. What makes it such a mystery? Well, it’s full of bones—human...

What's so mysterious about the Lake of Bones?

Roopkund Lake is a small, glacial lake located high in the Himalayas. It’s also called Skeleton Lake or Mystery Lake. What makes it such a mystery? Well, it’s full of bones—human...

Ento ... what? Exploring a couple authors fascination with eating insects

Ento ... what? Exploring a couple authors fasci...

Entomophagy is the technical term for eating insects. The etymology of entomophagy is from the Greek for insects and eating, funnily enough.  Both of us are from a culture where...

Ento ... what? Exploring a couple authors fasci...

Entomophagy is the technical term for eating insects. The etymology of entomophagy is from the Greek for insects and eating, funnily enough.  Both of us are from a culture where...