By Randy Ellefson Depending on your ability, creating names for people, places, and beings in fantasy books can either be fun or a pain. I’ve been doing this for three decades and will provide some tricks and thoughts to help. KISS KISS doesn’t really stand for “keep it simple, stupid”, but it’s a good principle […]
Read More Creating Fantasy NamesOriginally posted on s a gibson:
I confess, I occasionally fantasize about writing a book which completely panders to an audience just for fame and money. However, will the Faustian bargain result in having to discard my personal pleasure in storytelling, can I have it both ways. We all know of big best selling books…
Just to note: size representation is a big deal to me. I am an ex-anorexic/bulimic. Thank you to Ms. Jackson for this great article. Please share any good fat characters you can in the comments on the article, where people will read it! Image above is fan art for Miles and his somewhat-larger brother, Mark […]
Read More A Small List of Large Characters: Fat Representation in SFFBy Mandy Wallace So I’m working on this short story I started for some Glimmer Train contest or other. But it grew like a weed all unwieldy, and now it’s burst through its word count limit and its deadline. And I wish that was this story’s biggest problem. Its biggest problem is that I’m still struggling to balance ye old show versus […]
Read More Show Don’t TellBy Cat Rambo Cat Rambo is the current President of the SFWA. Just so you know, indie works are eligible for Nebula awards! Just sayin’. She encouraged me to throw my hat in the ring, and was kind enough to list me on her post. If you want to throw your hat into the ring, […]
Read More 2017 Award-Eligible Work Blog Posts & Roundups for F&SFOriginally posted on Working Title Blogspot:
He woke with a start. Glancing all around him, getting his bearings, he realized it was still dark, and most of his travelling companions still slept. Piper, with her mouth agape, was snoring and drooling, as usual. Above him, the sky was a canopy of brilliant starstuff. The Milky…
This year was my year for being stubborn. Frustrated with my inability to find a home for my Weird Western novelette, in part I assume because of its unusual size, in part because of its unusual subject matter, I decided to publish it myself, and proceed with the Wyrd West Chronicles serial idea I had. […]
Read More My Publishing Year in ReviewI recently wrote a story centered in part around a building that had a lot in common with this. Very excited to see it becoming a reality! An apartment, retail, and office complex with an abundance of greenery is going up in Cairo, Egypt. Designed by Vincent Callebaut Architectures, the complex will feature nine cylindrical structures covered in plants, […]
Read More The Gate: Apartment Complex of the FutureWelcome to our first live #SpecWomenChat Podcast! In this monthly show, a panel of both indie and traditionally-published women speculative fiction authors will discuss issues about all things fantasy, science fiction, and issues of interest to women in the field. Some of us you’ll have heard of, others will be new discoveries for many, but […]
Read More #SpecWomenChat Podcast Episode 1: Women in Speculative FictionI love Lindybeige’s channel; he’s got a lot of practical how-tos and whys for writers of adventure stories and historical fiction. Here’s a practical guide to revolvers, thoroughly dispelling a lot of spaghetti western myths. I’ll just put in that in the Wyrd West, a lot of legendary old firearms have been modified by gnomes […]
Read More Single- and Double-Action Revolvers
