Please join my street team for my novels. 2 postings on social media is all I ask! Join my Street Team My name is Jim Doran and I’m a writer of genre fiction. My blog is composed of short stories, reflections on writing, and shameless plugs for my novels. Rowan […]
I am happy to announce the sequel to my first novel Kingdom Come, entitled On Earth, As It Is. This book will be a standalone novel as well as a sequel. Most characters will return, and a number of new characters will be introduced. I don’t think I’m giving too […]
Fairytale characters get a bad rap. The heroes and heroines are looked at as weak, sexist, fetish-minded, duplicitous, and superficial. The current trend is to glorify the villains in these stories because, as the saying goes, the villains are the most interesting characters. Interesting, maybe, but I think people give […]
In 2018, my novel, Kingdom Come, was published, and it is now available for sale (see links below). To celebrate the launch year, I will publish new content every month of the year — a short story or other media pertaining to the novel — on this site every second weekend. You […]
And they lived happily ever after. What do those words call to mind? If you said “fairy tales,” you would be in the vast majority of people. At first blush, fairy tales are innocent, childhood stories meant to instill right and wrong virtues in children before bedtime. More recent scrutinization […]