This is great stuff! There’s no bigger pet peeve of mine than someone pontificating on high about the “right” way to do something. We all have our own ways of doing things, and there are many paths to the top of the mountain. What worked for you is what worked for you; not what works […]
Read More The Ten Worst Pieces of Writing Advice You Will Ever Hear (and Probably Already Have)Preliminary results from NASA’s study of Scott and Mark Kelly appear to show fascinating physiological and genetic changes but more analysis is needed before any conclusions can be made. Read full article at Seeker.com.
Read More Space Changes Your DNARed Holocaust by James Axler My rating: 2 of 5 stars Read for the Apocalypse Now! Reading Challenge. Method of the world’s destruction: global thermonuclear and biochemical warfare. This book was pretty much exactly what I expected. The Deadlands series takes place about a hundred years after a major thermonuclear and biochemical war plunged the […]
Read More Book Review: Red Holocaust by James Axler (Deathlands #2)A handful of megacorporations acquire a complete lockdown on every major market in the world, including the media, access to books, our food, our water, and the air we breathe. Corruption at the highest levels of government, general apathy, and a determined propaganda campaign prevents humanity from doing anything to stop it. Frederik Pohl & […]
Read More 6 Dystopian Sci-Fi Plotlines I’ve Seen in the News RecentlyI’m doing Camp NaNoWriMo this year, and I’m currently working on four different projects. So far I’m actually doing pretty well. I was originally not going to do the contest entry and instead I was going to do my anthology story, but I’ve finished it already. Here’s my list of projects: Goal: 20,000 words. I’m […]
Read More Camp NaNoWriMo ProjectsThis post takes a deep dive into how Amazon’s search engine works. We’ll touch on information-theory concepts, and aim to use as little technical jargon as possible. If it’s all a bit much, skip to the end to read the summary of takeaways to help you choose and optimize keywords for your book. Note: ‘keyword’ […]
Read More How Amazon Search Really WorksWorth considering. By their standards, I’m a slow writer! I first blogged about the plight of slow writers back in 2014, at the height of the indie publishing boom. All the indie superstar gurus were telling writers to grind out ebooks as fast as they could type to take advantage of the “Kindle Gold Rush”. […]
Read More Are Slow Writers Doomed to Fail in the Digital Age?KAMERON HURLEY’S SCIENCE fiction novel The Stars Are Legion almost never saw the inside of a book store. She came up with the idea in 2012, but she and her agent didn’t think anyone would buy it. A “big gory political space opera” wasn’t something flying off the shelves at the time. But two years […]
Read More Space Opera Fiction is Back & Better Than Ever!Here’s a few links to a series of articles about getting horses right in fantasy & historical fiction. But they are somewhat oversimplifications: I also highly recommend the Wikipedia article on coat colour in horses, and following up on the specific articles on coat colours that interest you. Through this, I learned that Lightning, my […]
Read More Writing Horses RightNow this was a resource I just had to share! I may, in the future, repost particular articles that are relevant to something I’m immediately writing, but there’s just too much stuff to post the whole series at once! Science in Sci-Fi, Fact in Fantasy is a blog series for authors and fans of speculative […]
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