Jonathan Dalar - Curiosity Quills Press

About the Author

Jonathan Dalar

Jonathan Dalar has been a writer and avid fan of horror, fantasy and science fiction since the early 1980's. He has written several novels and over 45 novellas, short stories and pieces of flash fiction. His first published work, a science fiction novella titled Separate Worlds, is available as an e-book from most online booksellers. He is also a retired United States Navy veteran, rabid Seattle Seahawks fan, and world adventurer, having visited or lived in over 28 countries on five continents. He currently lives in Western Washington with his wife and two children. He can be found on Google+, Facebook, Twitter, and on his blog.

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A Real Female Protagonist

How often do we see stereotyped female characters in literature and film nowadays? I’d say in almost every example we can come up with. Let's learn to focus attention on the REAL characters.

The Art of Perspective

I've been up to my eyeballs in perspective lately, and it’s given me a few thoughts on the matter. Whether hiding or showing something to the readers, it is a powerful tool in the hands of an author who understands its uses.

What Really Scares Us?

Horror has made great leaps and bounds as a genre, coming from a relatively obscure, often maligned genre, into being mainstream literature. It's a wonderful thing. Horror is too much a part of the human experience not to be ...

Happy Samhain!

It’s celebrated around the world, and goes by a number of different names, including All Hallows’ Eve, All Saints’ Eve, and Night of the Witches. We hold fantastically dark themed costume parties, tell scary stories, and ...

Facing the Aliens

Writing a post speculating about a possible meteorite I found got me to thinking. We as humans, and particularly Americans, have an ongoing love affair with outer space. We search for alien life, we speculate endlessly about al...

Originality in Movies and Books

Occasionally I am reminded of my somewhat ongoing disillusionment with the Hollywood movie industry. It’s kind of a dichotomy really. We continue to break box office records, while at the same time lamenting the demise of gre...

Our Children’s Science Fiction

Is science fiction changing? Will our children read and watch a different sort of science fiction than we did? Recent events and trends in society have caused me to think such questions. I pose this theory: authors write an...

Speculating Advances in Technology

Technology, how it changes, and what it evolves into is a subject close to the heart of science fiction. It’s what forms the speculative world around the stories, and what drives the plot. In some cases, like The Terminator, ...

The Uncanny Valley in a Speculative World

Much has been said about the uncanny valley in relation to how technology has advanced over the past few years, but less said about how that hypothesis applies to speculative fiction. For those of you who haven’t heard about ...