After being found as an infant crawling among old and dusty books in an abandoned library, Kimberly Richardson grew up to be an eccentric woman with a taste for listening to dark cabaret music while drinking tea, reading books in every genre ...
Clive Barker, Anne Rice, Graham Joyce, Ian McEwan, Charles deLint, JK Rowling, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Alison Lurie, Agatha Christie, Yukio Mishima, Alice Waler, Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor, Octavia Butler, Dan Simmons, Larry Brown, Paco Alhgren, Simon Van Booy, Margaret Atwood, Virginia Woolf, Barry Unsworth, and many others!
Favorite Books
A Tale of Two Cities, Flowers in the Attic, And Then There Were None, the Nightside series by Simon R. Green, Love Begins In Winter, all books by Clive Barker, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, all books by Harlan Coben, all books by Charles deLint, The Mentor's Gift, Women Who Run With the Wolves, all books by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Thin Place, The Corrections, American Gods, Neverwhere, Roots, Lord of the Flies, all books by Laura Joh Rowland, the Harry Potter series, The Human Stain, Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal, Red Dragon, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Franny and Zoey, Catcher in the Rye, Eaters of the Dead, Jurassic Park, The Lost World, The Alchemist, A Miracle of Catfish, Big Bad Love, and many, many, many more . . . .
I just discovered this poet today through an article published by the Poetry Foundation. What a voice. Lunar Baedekerby Mina LoyA silver Lucifer serves cocaine in cornucopia To some somnambulists of adolescent thighs draped in satirical draperies Peris in livery prepare Lethe for posthumous parvenues Delirious Avenues lit with the chandelier souls of infusoria from Pharoah’s ...
Since becoming a published (and now award winning) author, I have met some wonderful and highly talented authors within the Mid-South area and even beyond. One such author is Stephanie Osborn who resides in Huntsville, AL and is the author of the book BURNOUT: The Mystery of Space Shuttle STS-281. After listening to Stephanie’s pitch about the book during the course of attending several ...
This is the poem that inspired Joanne Harris' novel Sleep, Pale Sister: She fell asleep on Christmas Eve: At length the long-ungranted shade Of weary eyelids overweigh'd The pain nought else might yet relieve. Our mother, who had leaned all day Over the bed from chime to chime, Then raised herself for the first time, And as she sat her ...
