Ack! I see that I have mistakenly uploaded the backup file when I went to pre-order, so if you buy Vice & Virtue right now, you will end up with half a book! I submitted the changes, and it already says it’s publishing, so give it a few hours and I’m sure it will all […]
Read More Vice & Virtue is Live, but Don’t Buy it Yet!I won’t pretend that the technology in The Guns Above was easy to imagine. I spent months working out the details and checking them against real-world analogues. A thousand cool and exciting ideas were cut down in their prime, excised by the cruel blade of reality, because I wanted tech that would pass the test […]
Read More “The Guns Above” Author Robyn Bennis on Imagined TechnologySometimes in my stories, a space ship *does* blow up on page three. But even then, my work always has something deeper to say, and I find the dismissal irritating. Every science fiction writer has something that drives him or her. For many if not most writers this is the need to pen a […]
Read More A Space Ship Does Not Blow Up on Page ThreeBy Jessica Lourey When my husband died unexpectedly in 2001, I’d never heard of expressive writing. And you know what? It wouldn’t have mattered if I had. Three months pregnant, raising a three-year-old, and suddenly a widow, the last thing I wanted to do was spend even one sharp second journaling about how I felt. […]
Read More The Therapeutic Benefits of Writing a NovelThis is going to sound like a product endorsement, and I suppose it is, but I just downloaded this thing (which is free) and I love it! I was looking for an app where I could keep track of my word count outside of NaNoWriMo, and this was the first app that popped up on […]
Read More I Just Discovered #WriteometerLet’s imagine a thought experiment. An aggressive viral plague has struck humanity. Spreading astonishingly quickly through our modern world of dense cities and international airliners, we’d already lost the fight in a matter of weeks. Civilisation has collapsed and the vast majority of humanity has died. But you’ve survived. You fell deliriously ill, but through […]
Read More How to Cope with the End of the WorldI finally accepted the wisdom of those with more experience than myself, and despite deploring spam, I have gotten an email newsletter service. Which means, of course, that you *know* I’m not going to send you worthless garbage or pester you daily! If you subscribe I will let you know about my projects and new […]
Read More Well, I Finally Did It . . . Sign Up for My Newsletter!*ALL TIMES ARE IN PDT! FOR EDT, ADD 3 HOURS! FOR LONDON TIME, ADD 8 HOURS!* Sarah Buhrman, Rebekah Dodson, Kayla Kirby, and Diane Morrison invite you to join them and many other amazing indie authors to celebrate their new May releases! In addition, many of these authors are participating in the Kindle Storyteller competition, […]
Read More The Storytellers: Celebrating May New Releases!Well, I suppose I’m nothing if not amazing under pressure! After last night’s blog post, I promptly took a nap because I was exhausted (one of the reasons I figured I was not going to make my deadline; that and the expanded story). Then, as many writers do, I woke up at eleven-thirty at night […]
Read More Ha! I Made My Deadline After All!
