Logos & Mythos Blog

Welcome to the LOGOS & MYTHOS Blog! This is my virtual home for thoughts on reading, writing and all things literary. Get cozy, prop your feet up and sip some hot tea with me as I share my Indie Author journey. Subscribe below to receive each weekly post right in your inbox and check out this post for the story behind my unusual blog—and Press—name.

An Author’s Best Resource: the Active Reader

An Author’s Best Resource: the Active Reader

If you're like me, you love to read. And, like me, you may want to be a much more active reader than you've been in the past. By "active reader" I refer to a reader who seeks ways to interact with the book and its author. I've been a reader all my life, but spent much...

Writing Lessons While Reading

Writing Lessons While Reading

Like beacons of light along a garden path at night, books offer flashes of influence and inspiration to each eager reader and invaluable writing lessons for any aspiring writer. Over the years, these gifts have filled my heart and mind, making my life rich and my...

Wanted: Literary Divining Rod

Wanted: Literary Divining Rod

Have you ever wished you could take out wanted ads for life? Wanted: one house elf to wash dishes, scrub baseboards, clean toilets and complete other equally annoying tasks   Wanted: a Lewis to my Tolkien (Don't laugh, but I actually wrote this one out and got...

What Writing Has Taught Me

What Writing Has Taught Me

Storytelling allows me one of the fullest lives possible; it also teaches me writing lesson after writing lesson. These instructions don't teach me how to write; they teach me how to live. You may ask, “How is that even possible? Isn’t writing a solitary...

Inspiration in the Daily Mess

Inspiration in the Daily Mess

Where does Inspiration live? From where does it emerge? For me, as a writer, Inspiration shows up randomly—always on his timetable, not mine.

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Joy E. Rancatore's books on Goodreads
Any Good Thing Any Good Thing
reviews: 10
ratings: 12 (avg rating 4.83)

The Crux Anthology The Crux Anthology
reviews: 8
ratings: 11 (avg rating 4.09)