SINFUL FOLK - A Novel of the Middle Ages

"In Greek, “nostalgia” literally means “the pain from an old wound”. It’s a twinge in your heart, far..."

Sat, 25 May 2013 10:00:59 -0400

““In Greek, “nostalgia” literally means “the pain from an old wound”. It’s a twinge in your heart, far more powerful than memory alone. This device isn’t a spaceship, it’s a time machine. It goes backwards and forwards, it takes us to a place where we ache to go again.””

- Don Draper (via weaverofstars)

“They were no angels.” from the novel Sinful Folk.

Thu, 23 May 2013 10:01:09 -0400

“They were no angels.” from the novel Sinful Folk.

"Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book."

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:01:21 -0400

“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”

- Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel (via libraryland)

Favorite Will Herondale Quotes

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:01:30 -0400

Favorite Will Herondale Quotes

"A good reader, a major reader, an active and creative reader is a rereader."

Mon, 20 May 2013 10:01:20 -0400

“A good reader, a major reader, an active and creative reader is a rereader.”

- Vladimir Nabokov (via unsunglory)

"And in the end, of course, a true war story is never about war. It’s about sunlight. It’s about the..."

Sat, 18 May 2013 10:01:03 -0400

““And in the end, of course, a true war story is never about war. It’s about sunlight. It’s about the special way that dawn spreads out on a river when you know you must cross the river and march into the mountains and do things you are afraid to do. It’s about love and memory.””

- How to Tell a True War Story by Tim O’Brien

(via thegettingout)

Great Review: Coeur d'Alene Waters Novel

Fri, 17 May 2013 10:00:51 -0400

Great review on Amazon for an “Engaging Mystery Set in a Powerful Natural Environment”

May 17, 2013 By Timothy K. Parker

Coeur d’Alene Waters is a compelling story of one man’s search for redemption. It is a murder mystery, but in its treatment of language, characters, spirituality and even the natural world, it is much more than that.

It is fascinating to see how the lake itself, and the setting, functions almost as another character in the story. Wonderful Pacific Northwest atmospherics, definitely shows some influence by other writers with masterful control of language, like Annie Dillard.

Highly recommended.

Get Coeur d’Alene Waters Here »

“I grip hope to me, a small bird quaking in the nest of my...

Wed, 15 May 2013 20:01:40 -0400

“I grip hope to me, a small bird quaking in the nest of my heart” from the novel Sinful Folk

Historical murder mystery: Review !

Wed, 15 May 2013 19:34:00 -0400

Great review on Amazon for my first novel:

“Coeur d’Alene Waters is a murder mystery that rises above the genre with language that is simultaneously lyrical and hard-nosed…. an engaging story… This work of literary fiction has the tautness and complexity of the best of crime dramas.”

— Review from Alec Clayton, author of 7 novels

Novel online here »

"A library is infinity under a roof."

Tue, 14 May 2013 10:01:42 -0400

“A library is infinity under a roof.”

- Gail Carson Levine (via mercurieux)

A post here about how I came to write a book about a...

Sun, 12 May 2013 16:30:26 -0400

A post here about how I came to write a book about a Mother’s Love and how far a mother will go for her children. http://sinfulfolk.com/post/18082073114/what-really-matters-one-mothers-story

"Writing is such a damn lonely sickness."

Sun, 12 May 2013 10:01:05 -0400

“Writing is such a damn lonely sickness.”

- Robert Frobisher, in David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas (via yeahwriters)

Words have the power to change us [PHOTO]

Sat, 11 May 2013 10:01:04 -0400

Words have the power to change us [PHOTO]

Photo

Fri, 10 May 2013 10:01:21 -0400

"I still love the book-ness of books, the smell of books: I am a book fetishist—books to me are the..."

Thu, 09 May 2013 10:01:05 -0400

“I still love the book-ness of books, the smell of books: I am a book fetishist—books to me are the coolest and sexiest and most wonderful things there are.”

- Neil Gaiman (Locus, February 2005)

“You know that feeling, when you are reading a...

Wed, 08 May 2013 19:01:28 -0400

“You know that feeling, when you are reading a book…. and you are tied to the story?”

Mother with Child. [One more marvelous Nikki McClure...

Tue, 07 May 2013 10:01:18 -0400

Mother with Child.

[One more marvelous Nikki McClure illustration for the forthcoming novel SINFUL FOLK]

"They were watching, out there past men’s knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their..."

Sun, 05 May 2013 10:01:03 -0400

“They were watching, out there past men’s knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.”

- Cormac McCarthy | Blood Meridian (via evoketheforms)

nutellacup: Tumblr on @weheartit.com - http://whrt.it/Xpv6BS

Sat, 04 May 2013 20:01:27 -0400

nutellacup:

Tumblr on @weheartit.com - http://whrt.it/Xpv6BS

"Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from it; it is not the expression of..."

Fri, 03 May 2013 10:00:57 -0400

“Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from it; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these things.”

- T. S. Eliot (via bdgarp)

Thoughts on poetry from T.S. Eliot