Karen Hall

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Rogue Performer Previews: Booger Red, Seeing Stars, & Delusions and Grandeur

2024 Articles, Arts & Entertainment, Music, Rogue Festival

by Jim Loucks, Steve Budd, & Karen Hall

It is almost time for the Rogue Festival again--it will be taking place March 1-9 in the Tower District of Fresno. Here are the 3 final Rogue Performer Preview articles! Don't miss our article about Rogue 2024 as well. We will also be posting several show reviews once the festival begins!

Unusual Settings: How To Draw Your Reader Into an Unfamiliar Place

2013 Articles, Mysteryrat's Maze

by Karen Hall

Where to set your novel. It’s one of the first questions you must answer when you begin to write. Will it be a familiar place? San Francisco, maybe? Even if she’s never been there herself, your reader will have a pretty good idea of how things look; she’s probably seen dozens of movies set there. Or New York. Same thing. But what if your setting is unusual? Foreign, maybe? Or in part of the country that’s rarely visited?