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:

34. “My Writing, My Life, My Bicentennial”

Janet Raye Stevens returns under a new nom de plume:  Evie Kelley.  As Evie, Janet has expanded her writing horizons beyond historical mysteries into the YA genre.  My Bicentennial is a funny and poignant coming of age tale that recaptures the weird clash of  angst and fun of adolescence in  1976, with some thought-provoking depictions of prejudice and conformity.  Nevertheless, her main character Deidre has the humor, smarts, humanity, and support of friends to find her way to self-respect and insight.  This blog also tempts us with hints of The Nascent Bloom: Book 1, Caught, a hot-off-the-press YA Sci-Fi novel in a new series.  More importantly, Janet’s blog reveals how facing the “Big C” lit a fire under her to bring all her potential types of writing to light and reach greater audiences.  Enjoy Janet/Evie’s wit and insight in this essay.

Updated 01/016/26

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