Authors Preview - Owl Publications

Author's Preview - Owl PublicationsOne of the leading online journals for students seeking a graduate degree in English, The Owl Publication, has just published a new article by Mary Ann Ames, a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who publishes and hosts a popular academic site on the topic of creative writing. I have read it now and am interested in discussing it with others who may be interested in it.The article, 'The Owl's Footprints: A Novel Review,' by Mary Ann Ames, is a brief and readable review of Peter Quillin's Owl's Footprint, which was published by Owl Publishing in October 2020. That novel was in some ways more successful than his first novel, A Foreign Affair, in which he won the Award for Excellence in Writing in the Science Fiction and Fantasy category in the 2020 World Fantasy Convention. In addition to reviewing the book, Ames also briefly mentions the characteristics of great works of creative writing.Quillin's book is about the intrigue and history of a young woman who arrives at the back door of her grandparents' house. She has lost her family, and her love of home is her only remaining way of communicating with those she loves. She is an orphan, and she and her best friend are siblings. This is a book about hope and friendship and family and what makes the difference between living life and dying alone.Ames gives her readers a brief summary of the plot, the key characters, and the setting of the story. It is a good summary of the plot, but of little interest to the more academically inclined or interested in the literary elements of the book. The story, which is set in northern California, is complicated by all the issues that are only slightly hinted at in the article. We are not given a sense of why or how the couple was abandoned by their parents, who never returned.The Owl publicationreview of Quillin's Owl's Footprint gives only a cursory overview of the more important elements of the book. There is no indic ation that the author read the novel before publishing it, as Ames does not give a brief review of the book itself. The author is too busy writing a review of his own work. He is very quick to bemoan that the book is about time and place, but he does not make it clear that the author may have focused more on the plot than the deeper aspects of the characters.The Owl publication review of Quillin's Owl's Footprint is a must-read for Owl readers. It was clearly written by a professional academic and fan of fiction. As a lover of books of fiction, I look forward to reading more reviews of fiction, as well as of poetry and memoirs. The Owl publication review of Quillin's Owl's Footprint is a must-read for Owl readers.Other reviewers of Owl's publications may consider it worthy of a try. However, if you are looking for a summary of this book in your efforts to earn a master's degree in creative writing, this review may not meet your needs.If you are a student looking for an academic revi ew of a work of fiction, consider an Owl publication review of Quillin's Owl's Footprint. If you are a professional writer who enjoys speculative fiction, you may find this review of Quillin's work interesting, but you will probably not want to read it again.