Tag Archives: Fiction

A Fiction Book Signed By One of Its Characters

I’ve got something like a couple dozen books signed by their authors, but I never thought I’d own a fiction book signed by one of its characters! Cherri Allen, my parents’ former next-door neighbor and the owner of a marvelous bird-and-garden shop in my hometown of Auburn, Michigan, won an auction to have her name …

October 22, 2011 – 7:21 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith | Tagged , , | Comments Off

Only Natural

Did you know there were two tin woodmen in Oz? Probably not–the second one appears for the first time in this short snippet of a story. Only Natural “He thought it was a curse. I saw it differently. You probably remember his story–how he fell in love with a certain girl, who happened to be …

December 18, 2010 – 7:26 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Arts and Culture, New Atheism | Tagged , , , , | Comments (1)

The Best Mystery Novel?

I read Dorothy L. Sayers’s The Nine Tailors several years ago, and today I just finished it again, on audio this time. I think it’s my all-time favorite mystery novel. What’s yours?

October 6, 2009 – 6:38 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Arts and Culture | Tagged , , , | Comments (6)