PJ Swanwick's site, Fiction for a New Age, seeks to define a new genre of "spiritual fiction" that goes Way Out There instead of just to church. I got to meet PJ Swanwick at the Buddhist Geeks Conference in Boulder, Colorado back in August, and could not be happier to have made this lady's acquaintance.
To read her review of YU: A ROSS LAMOS MYSTERY, go here.
Excerpt:
"Laughter’s jade stories burst at the seams with elegant, concise, and yet restrained prose that pierces the true nature of each character. She evokes sympathy for a villain with a single, well-crafted line: “He carries so many more secrets than I. We both need so much comfort. ” Spare and beautiful, each word of the many jade stories performs double and even triple duty–prose haiku. Even the act of eating in public becomes an intimate, sensual act filled with tension and danger, more highly charged–and more thrilling to the reader–than the most explicit passages of a romance novel."
PJ's reviews of other books on her site have swelled my "must-read" list - and if you are hungry for fiction that takes the spiritual dimensions of story seriously, these books will land on your list, too.
