Rudyard Kipling's Red Dog (originally published as a comic-book series), Eclipse Books (Forestville, CA), 1988.Īriane and Bluebeard (based on the opera by Maurice Mäterlinck and Paul Dukas originally published as a comic-book series), Eclipse Books (Forestville, CA), 1989. Salomé (originally published in comic-book format also see below), Eclipse Books (Forestville, CA), 1986. Pelleas and Melisande: The Classic Story of Love and Death (originally published in comic-book format also see below), translated by Barry Daniels, Eclipse Books (Guerneville, CA), 1985. Contributor to periodicals, including Imagine and National Lampoon. Isolation and Illusion: Collected Short Stories, 1977–1997, Dark Horse (Milwaukie, OR), 2003.Īlso contributor of stories and illustrations to comic-book series, including Robin 3000, and 9-11: September 11th, 2001, DC Comics, 2002. (With Don McGregor) Killraven, Warrior of the Worlds (originally published as a comic-book series), Marvel Comics Group (New York, NY), 1983.Įlric: Stormbringer (originally published as a comic-book series), Dark Horse (Milwaukie, OR), 1998. Night Music 1 (originally published as a comic-book series), Eclipse Enterprises (Forestville, CA), 1979. Strange Annual, number 1, Marvel Comics Group (New York, NY), 1976. Shazam Award for Best New Talent, 1974 Harvey Award for Best Graphic Album, 1993, for Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde, Volume 1 Parents' Choice Award, 1994, and 1995, for Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde Eisner Award for Best Limited Series, 2001, for The Ring of the Nibelung.
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Their banter was spot on, and I loved the way their story flowed. It was a good thing Bailey didn't arrive any earlier than he did. I adored the way they interacted with each other from the moment they met. I'm very impatient when it comes to my favorite authors. I cannot wait to get my hands on her book when I hear she's writing it. I swear Saxon James gets better and better when it comes to her writing. When is it my turn to let loose for a moment? So, when my dumb-as-bricks frat bro is scoping out the house for a little experimenting fun, I throw out the offer like it isn’t the most nerve-racking thing I’ve ever considered. Study, frat duties, planning for the future. My brothers get annoyed when I put a damper on their plans, and wrangling drunken frat brothers isn’t how I pictured my Saturday nights of senior year. The problem is, the one guy who’s up for the ride is the last one I’d expect.īeing risk manager of a frat house is nobody’s idea of a good time. There’s only one way for me to get this obsession out of my head, and that’s by jumping in with both feet and putting it into practice. So, when one of my brothers hooks up with a dude from another frat house, it catches me off guard when I can’t stop thinking about them…together. It’s what I’m known for, and if it’s not fun, I’m not interested, simple as that. As social chair of Sigma Beta Psi, I’m the life of the party. His exquisite neoclassical mausoleum stood derelict, with not even a sign to mark his last resting place. Visiting Boswell’s burial place for the first time, in the churchyard in Auchinleck, a former mining village in Ayrshire, I was shocked to discover that Boswell’s literary legacy had also seemingly been laid to rest. It was then still housed in the family’s London mansion in Albemarle Street, where one of the great lost memoirs in literature, Lord Byron’s, had been burnt in the drawing-room grate. It is a passion I have carried into adulthood: before moving to the great biographer and diarist James Boswell’s home county of Ayrshire and founding a festival in his name, I had enjoyed commissioning biography, memoir and travel writing – all genres at which Boswell excelled – as a senior editor at the renowned publisher John Murray. M y love affair with biography began aged nine, when my subscription book club sent me a compendium of “true life” adventure stories. I know what she’ll say-the same thing she’s been saying. Seth starts talking to the receptionist behind the counter, but she barely gives him the time of day as she multitasks between phone calls and the computer. On the inside, though, the healing will take longer, and I wonder what Kayden will be like when I see him again. Sure, his wounds and broken bones may heal on the outside. ” He gets up from the chair and walks across the packed waiting room to the receptionist’s desk.īut in my heart, I know he won’t be all right. You’d think they’d let him have visitors by now. “You know what? I’m going to go see if he can have visitors yet. I stare at him, forcing back tears, because I have to be strong. He takes my hand in his and his skin is warm and comforting. I take my gaze off the door and stare into his brown eyes filled with worry. Lights flash as ambulances drive up under the port and the glow reflects off the rain on the ground, red, like blood. There’s a violent storm outside and rain is hammering against the concrete, dirt, and dry leaves. People move around the room frantically, but I can’t take my eyes off the sliding glass doors. I hear every sound, every laugh, every cry. 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Let’s dive in! My Thoughts on Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca This did not affect my rating in any way. Set up as a case file that tracks the communication between two people, we see the initial innocent correspondence that quickly devolves into madness and obsession.įull disclosure: I was a beta reader for this story and then re-read it once it officially launched and I was able to purchase a copy. Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca is a novella about obsession and how far someone will go to get what they want. And yes, Jinny is no longer her child by blood. The others – Carol, Raymond and Ginerva (Jinny) – had been adopted before her marriage to Lord Boynton. Only Lennox Boynton is her stepson by marriage. Instead, she is in the middle of a second marriage to a British peer and archeologist named Lord Boynton. But screenwriter Guy Andrews made so many changes from Christie’s original tale that it would seem pointless for me to recap the plot. ”APOINTMENT WITH DEATH” told the story of Hercule Poirot’s investigation into the murder of a wealthy, middle-aged American woman named Lady Boynton (Mrs. Nevertheless, I feel that it is a masterpiece in compare to this recent version that starred David Suchet as Poirot. The production values of the 1988 version of ”APPOINTMENT WITH DEATH” almost had a cheap, B-movie quality about it. Released in 1988, the movie starred Peter Ustinov in his last appearance as the Belgian-born sleuth, Hercule Poirot and is not considered among the best of Christie adaptations before the premiere of ”Agatha Christie’s POIROT” around 1989. The most well known adaptation before the 2008 one had been produced and directed by Michael Winner some twenty years earlier. One of those titles happened to be the author’s 1938 novel called ”Appointment With Death”. 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