UPDATE: Date and time has been set at 11:45 am PST on Saturday, December 2! Join the broadcast HERE. It’s happening! For the past couple of months I’ve been talking about it, and it’s finally going to be a thing! The #SpecWomenChat Podcast will be happening LIVE on my YouTube channel on Saturday, December 2 […]
Read More #SpecWomenChat Podcast & Live YouTube Show!Originally posted on The Toy Soldier Saga:
I have exciting news! “Mr. Midshipman Sunfall,” which was the first part of “A Few Good Elves,” will be published in the On the Horizon: Simple Worlds of Speculative Adventure Boxed Set on May 1, 2018! From the description: A collection of 22 Fantasy and Science Fiction full…
Fleshing out characters with believable human qualities is an art. Indirect characterization is writing that paints in character detail by showing rather than telling. Rather than only tell readers about characters’ personalities and values, you can reveal them subtly through dialogue, actions and appearances. Read these tips and examples from books: Read the full article at NowNovel.com.
Read More Indirect CharacterizationGold: The Final Science Fiction Collection by Isaac Asimov My rating: 5 of 5 stars Read for the Genre Non-Fiction and the Collections! Reading Challenges. This collection represents the last batch of stuff that Isaac Asimov gave to us. Half of it is stories, and the other half is a collection of essays about science […]
Read More Book Review: Gold by Issac AsimovOriginally posted on Bethany House Fiction:
It’s a dilemma that many in my circles are puzzling over: in today’s world, authors have nearly limitless creativity and research sources and opportunities to get their stories out to a wider audience…but fewer people are willing to pay for them. I’m an administrator for a few dozen authors’…
Pleased to announce that I am going to be in this outstanding boxed set! An international bestselling cast of 22 authors, and don’t let the stats fool you, that’s a dummy file, each one of us will be writing a minimum of a 40k word novel! You can’t beat our starting price for all of […]
Read More On the Horizon Boxed Set Announcement!By Megan Hunter I can chart the progress of my life through the types of apocalypse I have feared. As a child, the endings I imagined were natural, even cosmic: the land swallowed by the sea, the sun swallowing the earth. When I was an adolescent the man-made came to the fore, as I searched […]
Read More The Hopeful Side of Post-Apocalyptic FictionBy Dan Koboldt In some ways, publishing is a zero-sum game. There are only so many slots in the schedule of traditional publishers. Only ten books can occupy the top ten list, and only one can win the Hugo. Yet the most dangerous and pervasive threat to the aspiring author is not another author, nor […]
Read More We Are All AlliesOriginally posted on Nicholas C. Rossis:
Even though pamphlets and softcover books have been available in Europe since the 16th century, US readers looked down on them until well into the 20th century. As a recent Atlas Obscura post by Cara Giaimo explains, without a mass-market distribution model in place, it was difficult to make money…
