Category Archives: Formative Wonk

When Heroes Fall

Posted on June 19, 2014 by

It’s been a rough couple of weeks. Scratch that. It’s been a rough couple of decades. My heroes, writers whose work I have loved with a passion, who I have admired and promoted and hoped to emulate some day, have … Continue reading →

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Stepping Through the Wardrobe

Posted on March 27, 2014 by

Months ago, Tiffany Reisz mentioned something on Twitter about Portal Fantasies, those stories where a character literally passes through some kind of doorway to another world. It started me thinking about the subject and why I love those types of … Continue reading →

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Nascent Perversity

Posted on January 21, 2014 by

A couple weeks back, everyone at Wonkomance got happily tangled up in an email thread about the 1979 V.C. Andrews book, Flowers in the Attic, in the run up to its reincarnation as a Lifetime movie. It seemed like everyone … Continue reading →

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