This is the part of the web site where you get to express your ideas, questions, hopes, values, and thoughts in general about the challenges and excitements of writing, creating, and promoting your work – or to share the fun and thrill of what you’re reading.

I’m asking both readers and writers whom I know – and I’ll eventually go out on a limb and put out a call to some people I don’t know, but who I think will have something interesting to say.  The focus will be mainly on mystery/suspense, romance, fantasy, horror, SciFi, or YA, in keeping with the interests of most of my readers – but that doesn’t mean that I won’t have writers bring in topics or authors that you might not quite expect to fit these areas.  So, do respond here on this site or by sending me an email at  syang@worcester.edu.  But keep it clean – Natasha will be watching!

 

If you have ideas for a blog appropriate to this site (250-1000 words), contact me at syang@worcester.edu and I can see if your proposal would work.  All final decisions for editing rest with me (and my co-editor), since I’m the one everyone will blame if something looks hinky, content – or grammar-wise!

This month’s  feature:

33.  “Rod Serling:  A Man for All Times”

Kathleen Healey’s guest blog is a timely study of Rod Serling’s challenging humanity’s blindness to our fears and prejudices, of how we allow these flaws to drive us to give up reason, freedom, and wisdom.  Kathy is Adjunct Professor of English at Worcester State University, with a Ph.D. in American literature and cultural studies from Penn State.  She has published on both lit. and popular culture, including co-editing (with me!) as well as contributing to the collection Gothic Landscapes:  Changing Eras, Changing Cultures, Changing Anxieties.  Her essay on Serling gives plenty of food for thought about how unscrupulous people manipulate us through our fears and prejudices to suppress the better parts human nature.

Updated 08/03/24

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