Worth considering. By their standards, I’m a slow writer! I first blogged about the plight of slow writers back in 2014, at the height of the indie publishing boom. All the indie superstar gurus were telling writers to grind out ebooks as fast as they could type to take advantage of the “Kindle Gold Rush”. […]
Read More Are Slow Writers Doomed to Fail in the Digital Age?Here’s a few links to a series of articles about getting horses right in fantasy & historical fiction. But they are somewhat oversimplifications: I also highly recommend the Wikipedia article on coat colour in horses, and following up on the specific articles on coat colours that interest you. Through this, I learned that Lightning, my […]
Read More Writing Horses RightNow this was a resource I just had to share! I may, in the future, repost particular articles that are relevant to something I’m immediately writing, but there’s just too much stuff to post the whole series at once! Science in Sci-Fi, Fact in Fantasy is a blog series for authors and fans of speculative […]
Read More Science in Sci-Fi, Fact in FantasyCheck it out! Showdown was featured as one of the New Releases on the fantastic GoIndieNow! vlog! Lots of other great stuff featured as well; I was pleased to participate in Andy Peloquin’s takeover for the release of Gateway to the Past just this past weekend. The new releases for books start at about 22:30 in […]
Read More Go Indie Now! New ReleasesAs a new-ish author, I’m always looking for ways to improve and up my game when it comes to writing craft, story telling, or knowledge of the publishing industry. Yet there are only so many hours in the day, and as a scientist/author/father/bowhunter, most of those are already spoken for. The only reliable downtime that […]
Read More Podcasts for SF/F WritersAmazon is the most powerful online retailer in the world. Although books are just part of their business model, they dominant the literary sector. Around 70% of e-book sales in the United States happen on Amazon.com. Every title in the store has a “Best Sellers Rank” (also called Sales Rank) reflecting how well it’s selling relative to the […]
Read More An Experiment in Amazon Sales Rank“I have a cold mind and a warm heart, whereas most people have cold, troubled hearts and warm, muggy minds, which they mistake for sincere feelings.” ― James Tiptree Jr.
Read More Cold Minds and Warm HeartsAs a writer, I suppose it’s no surprise that I like playing word games. I scored 9 out of 15 on this quiz; can you beat my score? The average is, apparently, 6 out of 15. Mostly I played it because I wanted to know what a group of fireflies was called. Take the quiz […]
Read More Strange Animal Group NamesScience fiction has a reputation for being a field that has traditionally been entirely dominated by white heterosexual cisgender men, both in terms of its writers and its protagonists. It’s a reputation that the whole field has been working very hard to leave behind. One often wonders (at least, I do,) how it got that […]
Read More One Reason Why Science Fiction Was Traditionally Racist — Maybe
