Hi Thomas. Thanks for joining us today. First up, what kind of books do you write? I write horror, science fiction, “literary fiction”, and nonfiction. Great. Tell us a bit about yourself. I am a quiet recluse, living with my wife and a cat, out in the country. There's a mountain view through my office window, and I can watch horses graze in the pasture close by. Why do you write? I write to convey my ideas to other people, and to entertain them, but mostly I am writing to entertain myself. I love what I do for a living, and I will in all probability continue writing to my dying day. How long have you been writing, and when was your first book published? I've been writing since before kindergarten. I published my first short stories in 1991, and self-published my first book in 2012. Tell me about your latest book. “Spectral Septet: Seven Spine Chilling Compositions” is the latest horror book in a series of them. Readers will find in it six short stories and … [Read more...]
Literary Fiction Review: The Ribs and Thigh Bones of Desire b y Sandra Hutchinson – highly recommended
A coming-of-age novel set in America in the late 70s, Sandra Hutchison's The Ribs and Thigh Bones of Desire centers on the relationship between David, a physics professor in his 30s, and Molly, the teenage girl who used to babysit his daughter. Molly doesn't babysit for David anymore because his wife and daughter recently perished in a plane crash. He is too overwhelmed by grief to take care of himself, so his estranged sister hires Molly to keep house for him. Molly has problems of her own. Her parents are divorced. Her father loves her but now has another wife and children, a family where she has a marginal place. She mostly lives with her mother, a notorious and uninhibited artist who commemorates Molly's first period by constructing the figure of a girl with tampons and, of course, exhibiting it publicly. Molly's schoolmates call her Tampon Girl. The physics professor doesn't seduce or become obsessed with the teenager, nor does she have a girlish crush on him. While David … [Read more...]