Author: Consuelo Roland
Joyce Carol Oates: This Love Has Come Upon Me Slowly
This love has come upon me slowly, quite unsought for and quite unexpected. I see now that it has stealthily wormed into way into my heart, this love of the intricate way you work upon words. The craftsmanship is so honest, so dedicated, so pure, that it was perhaps inevitable that I should succumb, but I did … Continue reading Joyce Carol Oates: This Love Has Come Upon Me Slowly
A Swashbuckling Premise
The Fall by Indian movie director Tarsem Singh is one of those big-screen wonders that catapulted me into unexpected wonder. Its swashbuckling premise is that if you can trust in a paradigm where reality and fantasy are allies then anything can happen and brave little girls get to be Zorro. The heroine Alexandria, a small girl … Continue reading A Swashbuckling Premise
Was Ayn Rand Wrong? An Essay on Capitalism
Was Ayn Rand, provocative author of Atlas Shrugged [1]and The Fountainhead wrong about Capitalism? And by implication, the women of my generation who fed our capitalist aspirations on her discourse, as if it were mother’s milk that would protect and nourish us, have we trodden the false path ever since? What an unbearably intriguing question. … Continue reading Was Ayn Rand Wrong? An Essay on Capitalism
LADY LIMBO is the Next Big Thing…
Writer of literary mystery novel Lady Limbo, Consuelo Roland plays a little blog tag. She was tagged by the wonderful short story writer Liesl Jobson, and here she shares a quick Q&A about her new novel Lady Limbo. What is your working title of your book? From early on I had two working titles, partly because I knew it … Continue reading LADY LIMBO is the Next Big Thing…
What Happens Next? Wrestling with Fiction
A few weeks ago I read John Irving’s The World According to Garp. It’s odd I took so long to get to it considering that I am a huge John Irving fan, but it was an early book and I found the title unappealing; still perhaps there’s some truth to the adage that the teacher appears … Continue reading What Happens Next? Wrestling with Fiction
What a generous fellow writer can do for you
LADY LIMBO starts out with a bang. It gets picked up by the extraordinarily generous Joni Rodgers, a New York Times bestselling author, who gives it a fantastic Amazon review followed by a YouTube review that stuns me. But LADY LIMBO doesn't have an overseas publisher and for many months it's not even available on Amazon … Continue reading What a generous fellow writer can do for you
The Undercover Soundtrack | Roz Morris – Consuelo Roland’s THE GOOD CEMETERY GUIDE
‘Music to wake the living’ Once a week I host a writer who uses music as part of their creative process – perhaps to open a secret channel to understand a character, populate a mysterio… More here... ___________________ The Good Cemetery Guide began one fog-laden winter’s night in a dimly-lit … Continue reading The Undercover Soundtrack | Roz Morris – Consuelo Roland’s THE GOOD CEMETERY GUIDE
Genre Genre Genre
In Writers' World (think of it as an unscripted version of The Truman Show), 'Genre Genre Genre' is the equivalent of a property developer or estate agent's 'Location Location Location'. It's taken me a long time to accept the validity of this line of thinking. Partly because I'm stubborn. Partly because I'm ignorant. Partly because … Continue reading Genre Genre Genre
Such is Life: Jeri Walker-Bickett | Review by Consuelo
A long overdue review commitment is squeezed into a tightly packed mid-year vacation. I read Such is Life by Jeri Walker-Bickett with the distinct feeling that I am missing something that is staring me in the face. I suspect that my mind, steeped in academic learning for the past several months and feeling akin to a … Continue reading Such is Life: Jeri Walker-Bickett | Review by Consuelo
