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 PanelJust 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 SeriesHere’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 StartBy 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 AdviceWe all get angry. It is natural and it can be a good thing. When it is uncontrolled or unnecessary, anger will not do us any favours on either a personal or a social level. The same is true for the characters we create. When we write about angry characters, we should remember that there […]
Read More 37 Ways to Write About AngerBy Theodora Goss It probably sounds as though this is going to be a blog post about taking risks in writing. After all, look at the title: “Writing Without a Net.” But it’s not. It’s going to be a post about writing without financial security, which is something I’ve been thinking about a lot and […]
Read More Writing Without a NetBy Icy Sedgwick Think of Death for a moment. Did you picture a tall guy in a hood with a scythe? Or Neil Gaiman’s funky Siouxsie Sioux character from The Sandman? Or was it a more sombre abstract notion of pain and loss? Death can be, and is, all of these things, and much more. But […]
Read More Developing a Relationship with DeathIt’s the latest trend in all the spec fic magazines. Flash fiction! Write a short story that’s anywhere from a hundred words to the upper limit of a thousand words or less. Check it out! More stories in one issue! Isn’t that spectacular? Except that it isn’t. It’s really a scam by magazine publishers. It’s […]
Read More Why Flash Fiction is a ScamThe imagining of possible worlds is the staple of science fiction. As expert Bruce Sterling puts it, science fiction (or SF or sci-fi for short) is ‘a form of fiction that deals principally with the impact of actual or imagined science upon society or individuals’. In speculative fiction this impact can be strictly technological (as in novels featuring […]
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