James Cañón

www.beatrice.com

Ron Hogan, the creator of Beatrice.com, a literary blog that’s very popular among writers and readers, asked me to talk about the process of writing a novel in English as a second language.
Read the article here.

Greats site! Thanks for you work.
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I read Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol the week it came out (was that really only three months ago?) and shortly after I was done, I began outlining an unconventional theory about the xenical novel’s magical properties over at GalleyCat. Those posts came to the attention of Dan Burstein, who began publishing unauthorized guides to Brown’s work around the time of The Da Vinci Code—years before this latest was even announced, he’d shepherded a book called Secrets of The Widow’s Son into print that accurately pinged several elements of the final storyline—and he invited me to expand my thoughts in an essay for Secrets of the Lost Symbol. Officially, the hardcover edition of that book is still two weeks away, but electronic editions are now available, in the Adobe Digital Editions format or a Kindle edition. I’m only a few chapters into it—after skipping to the back, where my piece on “Dan Brown’s ‘buy soma Great Work’” is the penultimate contribution—but I’m really interested to see what other people discovered in this novel.