Honeymoon by James Patterson My rating: 4 of 5 stars I picked up this book because I’m taking James Patterson’s Masterclass writing course and this is the book he uses for an example of how to do things. There was no other reason than that. I would not have read it otherwise because it would […]
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[We must all strive for perfection. @Giraffedata, you know who you are.] Grammar Stickler Banishes comprised of From Wikipedia When I came across an online story headlined “One Man’s Quest to Rid Wikipedia of Exactly One Grammatical Mistake,” I of course had to find out who this…
Behold the Man by Michael Moorcock My rating: 5 of 5 stars Read for the SF Masterworks Challenge and the Science Fiction Masterworks Book Club. This was amazingly subversive at the time that it was written. And I suppose that a person who was raised Christian or Jewish might find it mind-blowingly subversive even now. […]
Read More Book Review: Behold the Man by Michael MoorcockFlashing Swords! #4: Barbarians and Black Magicians by Lin Carter My rating: 5 of 5 stars Read for the High Fantasy Reading Challenge and the Genre Non-Fiction Reading Challenge. This is an outstanding collection of some of the best in classic sword and sorcery writing! I had heard of all of these fine fantasy writers, […]
Read More Book Review: Flashing Swords! #4, edited by Lin Carter. . . plus one by Robert J. Sawyer, who is himself a successful Hugo, Nebula, and Aurora winning Canadian science fiction author. Just sayin’. By Robert J. Sawyer There are countless rules for writing success, but the most famous ones, at least in the science-fiction field, are the five coined by the late, great […]
Read More Robert Heinlein’s Five Rules of WritingBy Rachel Hartman #30days30authors I grew up in the Middle Ages. Well, not the Middle Ages exactly, but in Kentucky, which is close, and with a father who believed that if you didn’t have garden soil under your nails, you just weren’t working hard enough. We lived in the middle of town, but he was […]
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Read More I Write to Create MyselfBy Zachary Jarvis #30days30authors When people think of an eBook success story, they tend to think about Fifty Shades of Grey. It was an eBook that was released by a small Australian company that also did print on demand and became a worldwide phenomenon. The Writer’s Coffee Shop didn’t have a big marketing budget, and […]
Read More Fifty Shades and the Martian Self-Publishing Marketing SecretsWritten by Nancy Kress #30days30authors One of the scariest statements I ever heard came from a young relative of mine: “All the science I know I learned from your books!” To which I replied, gasping a little, “But you know I make it up, right?” But not entirely—which raises a critical question. While much has been […]
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