The following is a guest post by Lanayre Liggera, author of Intrusion. It was summer, and I was eight years old. In the bottom of the Dutch Reformed Church, my mother was teaching summer Bible school; we were on the Beatitudes, to be exact. It was a typical summer day, the smell of blooming flowers and trees, and the lazy summer light reaching through the windows even though they were set…
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Liza Perrat
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Wolfsangel by Liza Perrat
The novel starts in 1943, when the German army is occupying France. In Lucie-sur-Vionne, a small village near Lyon, the enemy has requisitioned everything that can be of use or that can make a profit. Because her father has been sent to a work camp in Germany, Céleste Roussel wants to be more involved in the Resistance, especially as her sister, her brother and his best friend are active members….
George Schnaider
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Poems from Life’s Precipice
The following is a guest post by George Schnaider, author of Impressions and Expressions. If you would like to write a guest post on my blog, please send me an e-mail at contact@cecilesune.com. In 1984, I was struck by a car while I was walking along the shoulder of a road. I was nearly killed. I spent three weeks in a coma, four weeks connected to a life support machine, seven…
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The Hot Cauldron II by Lachelle Redd
The following is a guest post by Lachelle Redd, author of the horror/dark fantasy anthology The Hot Cauldron II. If you would like to write a guest post on my blog, please send me an e-mail at contact@cecilesune.com. The author’s job is to keep you glued to the page with anticipation and hopes that your character can survive the circumstances placed upon them. In this, the second entry into the Hot…
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The Tragedy of Fidel Castro by João Cerqueira
The following is a guest post by João Cerqueira, author of The Tragedy of Fidel Castro. If you would like to write a guest post on my blog, please send me an e-mail at contact@cecilesune.com. It was through Portuguese writers – Camões, Fernando Pessoa, José Saramago, Lobo Antunes – that I learned to write. Hence my belief that form – that is, command of language – is as or more…
Andrew Pyper
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The Demonologist by Andrew Pyper
On Wednesday 30 October 2013, Andrew Pyper was in town to promote his latest book, The Demonologist. During the event, he read an excerpt and, astonishingly, he stopped at the exact same place where I had stopped reading only moments ago. Later on, he spoke about another coincidence: one night, his 5-year-old daughter had a nightmare about a boy dead in a river. This was the same night when the…