"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."
Edogawa Ranpo, born Tarō Hirai on October 21, 1894, in Nabari, Japan, was a prominent writer and literary critic known for his influential contributions to the mystery genre. He passed away on July 28, 1965, which means that his works will be in the public...
It might be because of my background in architecture, it might be because it's fantasy, but Italian intellectuals insist it's not (which is hilarious when it's not infuriating), but I'm particularly fond of Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities. Today I give you one of the cities...
Italo Calvino's collection "Italian Folktales" includes this fairytale as coming from the region of Liguria, and that makes perfect sense, as it's a region known for its coastal landscapes and maritime culture (and the parsimony of its inhabitants, but that's a different story). You can read...
"The Two Cakes" is a story from The Pentameron, or The Story of Stories by Giambattista Basile, here given in the translation by John Edward Taylor. You can also read the story on my Patreon. I have always heard say, that he who gives pleasure finds it:...
As my workshop with the Women in BIM group and my class at Autodesk University in San Diego approach, many of you asked me to provide additional resources on the LEGO Serious Play methodology, so here's a handful of them. Foundations and State of the Art ...
On my Patreon we combined our Monday appointment with water creatures and the ritual eBook after I get a rejection, making it free for everyone. Undine, by Friedrich Heinrich Karl de la Motte Fouqué, is spooky, it has water creatures and it’s beautifully gothic in its...
I got a rejection from an agent I didn't remember querying and that was weird, so that's why I've decided to take a break from the querying process and undergo a new revision, possibly incorporating some of the constructive feedback I got from a couple...
Frances Hodgson Burnett, born in Manchester and relocated to America during her adolescence following the death of her father, swiftly became the breadwinner for her family by crafting fiction for popular magazines. Hodgson demonstrated a talent for transforming clichés about England into captivating narratives tailored...
20 minutes between submitting a query to a prospect agent and receiving a form rejection is close to my previous record, so let's celebrate with a feast of Gothic tales on my Patreon, shall we? Born in 1849 in Scotland, James Hume Nisbet is known for...
Frederick George Loring was an English naval officer born in 1869, an early expert in the pioneering technology of wireless telegraphy and, incidentally, a writer. Born in the Isle of Wight as the eldest son of Admiral Sir William Loring and Frances Louisa Adams, he...
