Aaron Ross Powell

Brink Lindey’s*The Age of Abundance elegantly poses a plausible answer to the question of American political division. ...

Chris Anderson’s new book,

While going through my editor’s comments on the manuscript of THE HOLE, I kept coming back to the same conclusion: I’m just not that happy with the way the book begins. As...

This post continues my journal of impressions and thoughts as I read Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged for the first time. I have to give Ayn Rand credit for knowing how to make a collectivist look foolish. ...

Sans its message, sans its historical significance, sans its ability to turn young people into libertarians, the first thing one picks up on when startingAtlas Shrugged is the poverty of the prose. Ayn Rand, no matter her or her followers’ opinion otherwise, just isn’t a very good writer. Th...

Fineman begins this chapter making a common mistake...

Writing a novel is terrific fun. Editing it isn’t. But that’s the predicament I find myself in, as I’ve received the first round of extensive feedback from my wonderful new editor, and I’m slowly digging in for the long haul. The go...

None of them had an idea of what might have caused all this, but Danny was okay with that.  It was his curiosity about the words on his computer and the colors in his head that got him kidnapped in the first place and right now all he wanted was to get out of these tunnels and go home....

Jimmy spit dirt from his mouth.  His left arm hurt like hell, but it didn’t feel broken.  He tried to stand and couldn’t: a weight held him down, pressed across his lower back.  Jimmy rolled to his right, looking up. The h...

Writing a novel is terrific fun. Editing it isn’t. But that’s the predicament I find myself in, as I’ve received the first round of extensive feedback from my wonderful new editor, and I’m slowly digging in for the long haul. The go...

I recently posted a new short story, Stimulus, a noir piece with a fantasy and horror twist. I hit him. Teeth sprayed. “Again,” I said. “No...