‘Arts’ Archives
“Searching,” A Serial Novelle”” Chapter 1
By PATRICK CABELLO HANSEL EDITOR”™S NOTE Regarding “SEARCHING” Alley Communications has been honored and pleased to publish this novella by Patrick Cabello Hansel in The Alley Newspaper -- a first for The Alley and for any local community paper as far as we know. Many noteworthy writers published novels in a serial format in newspapers or other periodicals; for example Charles Dickens published chapters at regular intervals and if they became popular he would publish the chapters as a book. Some writers sought and even depended upon reader comments and suggestions as they developed their novels. All 34 Chapters are at: www.alleynews.org/category/searching Left to right: Orson Scott Card “Intergalactic Medicine Show”; Michael Chabon “Gentlemen of the Road”; Wilkie Collins “The Moonshine”; Charles Dickens “The Pickwick Papers”; Harriet Beecher Stowe “Uncle Tom”™s Cabin”; Sir Arthur [...]
“Returning”
By PATRICK CABELLO HANSEL Author”™s note: this story picks up years after the saga of Searching, serialized in 34 issues of the Alley in the early 2010”™s. In that story, we met Luz and Angel, two 19 year olds running from their past and searching for their future, along with a score of beautiful and strange neighbors. Patrick Cabello Hansel, is a Phillips Community resident, poet, pastor, and the author of the serial novel “Searching” that has appeared with a new chapter each month the last three years. What does Patrick have in common with Charles Dickens, Henry James, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Herman Melville, and Rudyard Kipling. Gustave Falubert, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Wilkie Collins, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Boleslaw Prus, Tom Wolfe, Michael Chabon, Stephen King, Michel Faber, Orson Scott Card, Laura Hickman, and Lawrence Watt-Evans? See more about serial stories below. Alley Communications has been honored and pleased to have been [...]
Book Review
Angela Henry Offers Another Thriller, “Doing it to Death” By Dwight Hobbes Fans of mystery novelist Angela Henry”™s Kendra Clayton series, rejoice. Delightfully intrepid, crime-solving sleuth Clayton is back, flying by the seat of her pants and as usual, two steps ahead of police detectives on the trail of a murderer. Also par for the course, the closer she gets to figuring things out, the more her own life is in danger. On top of everything, Kendra would just as soon be left in peace, minding her own business, which is exactly what she”™s doing when circumstance hurls her headlong, up to her neck in someone else”™s troubles. Far from formulaic, this time around Henry has come up with yet another way for Kendra to stumble into difficulty that she”™d rather have nothing to do with but can”™t see herself avoiding. In “Doing It to Death” (Boulevard West Press), Dibb Bentley, about as [...]
