It was my honour and pleasure to host three panels for the Virtual Fantasy Con this year! Our first panel was on Gender Issues in Fantasy, and we had so much to say that it had to be broken into two parts! Here they both are: You can watch the entire Virtual Fantasy Con 2017 […]
Read More Virtual Fantasy Con 2017: Gender Issues in Fantasy PanelDragonwriter: A Tribute to Anne McCaffrey and Pern by Todd J. McCaffrey My rating: 3 of 5 stars Read for the Genre Non-Fiction Challenge. This is a tribute to Anne McCaffrey, author of the Pern series, the Acorna series, the Pegasus series, and the Crystal Singer series, among many others. McCaffrey has long been a […]
Read More Book Review: Dragonwriter by Todd McCaffreyJust thought I would point this out, since I have a release coming up that’s been scaled back to October 15! Save the date! By Helen Scheuerer As the launch of Heart of Mist draws nearer and nearer, a lot of my readers have been asking: how do I help you with your book release? Firstly, just asking […]
Read More 13 Ways to Help an Indie Author with Their Book ReleaseBy Angeline Trevena Coming to the end of my first series, and starting on my second got me thinking about what I wanted to do differently. About the mistakes I made, and the lessons I learnt. Read the full article at Angelina Trevena’s blog.
Read More Lessons I Learnt from Writing My First Book SeriesThe Time Machine & The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells My rating: 5 of 5 stars I read a combined edition of these two books for the SF Masterworks Reading Challenge and the Science Fiction Masterworks Book Club here on Goodreads. The Time Machine Read for the Need to Reread Challenge. I have, […]
Read More Book Review: The Time Machine & The War of the Worlds by H.G. WellsHere’s a question I’ve gotten from Writing and Wellness readers recently… How do I take a project from beginning to end without losing it somewhere in the middle? So how do we do that, exactly? Read the full article at Writing & Wellness.
Read More How to Actually Finish the Writing Projects You StartI recently got into a bit of an altercation on Twitter. I’m hoping I’ve smoothed it over, because I reacted poorly in the initial exchange, and the person I got into a conflict with kept inadvertently making it worse, even though I know he meant well! He kept giving me advice that sounded to me […]
Read More Privilege and the ArtsBy C.S. Lakin For this week’s Throwback Thursday, we’re looking at an excerpt from a previous post titled Words of Advice from Famous Authors That Are Just Wrong. I imagine this post is bound to draw some criticism, but bring it on! Maybe it’s just me, but when I read pithy statements from famous authors that are […]
Read More Famous Authors’ Bad Writing AdviceI am really honoured to have been twice nominated in the few days for the Blogger Recognition Award! Thank you so much to Mercedes Prunty and Nicole Luttrell from Paper Beats World for nominating me! I think their blogs are really awesome too, as you might have noticed, since I have reblogged stuff from both […]
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