Author Spotlight: JJ Lee
Our magazine is dedicated to breaking boundaries of fictional genres and encouraging established authors to go boldly where they have never gone before. This blog […]
Scene Cuts: What Can You Teach Me Today, Lee Child? Part 2
How can a writer cut scenes to raise tension and keep the reader up late at night? Returning to A Wanted Man, I notice that […]
Writing Circles
Our last newsletter contained an invitation to join the Pulp Literature editors in our personal writing session, so here’s a description of the process which […]
Writing History, With Swordplay
I’m looking at Dorothy Dunnett’s brilliant, swashbuckling Race of Scorpions, a novel that turns about the 15th Century dynastic war in Cyprus. She is wise […]
George McWhirter to judge the Magpie Poetry Award
Who better to judge our inaugural Magpie Award for Poetry, than Vancouver’s inaugural Poet Laureate, George McWhirter? The much-lauded poet, novelist, translator and editor has […]
Trust Your Reader
To celebrate the start of our first Magpie Award poetry contest, let me honour Max Plater, a poet from my very first writer’s group who […]
Writing tips from Rumpole of the Bailey: Part 2
I’m examining the first three paragraphs of Rumpole A La Carte to see how John Mortimer gets the story going in the first three paragraphs. Right […]
A Leader in Mystery: John Mortimer’s Horace Rumpole
Part 1 I’m always boggled at how much has to be accomplished up front when writing short mysteries. Those first paragraphs are vital…(although, really, what […]
The Pleasure of Paying
Last month’s Pulp Literature bank statement came this week. It was a long one, and contained all the cleared cheques written to our Issue 1 […]
The Joy of Editing
Yes, I spent Valentine’s Day at my computer editing. No, I don’t feel guilty about this. My husband likes to see me on an editor’s […]