Five ‘Sweet As’ Kiwi Crime Authors by Sara E. Johnson ‘Sweet as’ is Kiwi slang for ‘awesome.’ I want to finish the simile. Sweet as pineapple lumps. Sweet as pavlova. Sweet as crime novels set in New Zealand. In the nine months I spent in Aotearoa (Māori for Land of the Long White Cloud), place […]
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THE BELLS & WHISTLES TOUR OF VICTORIAN SPIRITUALIST LONDON
Lucy Barker – May 2023 Victorian England was obsessed with discovery – not of the world, but of ideas. This thirst for the new led, in no small part, to an unparalleled increase of interest in alternative spiritual practices. Theosophy, Vegetarianism, Humanism, Love Cults: they all found their foothold during this try-anything century that had […]
10 things that might help your writer’s block
By Siena Sterling “Writer’s block is a phony, BS excuse for not doing your work.” Jerry Seinfeld is a genius, but his comment about writer’s block makes him an annoyingly smug genius. Has he really never had those moments when the words or ideas refused to enter his brain? When he sat, desperately wanting […]