So, it’s Independence day. I would like to say I’m a big American History geek, but I don’t know as much about it as I’d like to. (I blame my […]
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Two points: 1. You still have about 36 hours to sign up for the ArmadilloCon Writers’ Workshop: Writers’ Workshop Are you an unpublished, beginning to intermediate level writer? Put your […]
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So, I was suggested two book trailers by my friend Abby. In her opinion, the first one is worse than the second. I actually feel it’s the other way around. […]
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Book trailers are a phenomenon that have fascinated me for some time. This shouldn’t be much of a surprise, as I am a writer and have a degree in film […]
Read moreWriting Minor Characters: The Story of Citizen #4
I believe that I’m somewhat unusual amongst fantasy/sci-fi writers, in that I cut my writers’ teeth as a playwright. Coming at writing novels from a theatre background gives me a […]
Read moreIntentionally hiding tools in your toolbox.
Interesting bit of “advice” I heard the other day: A stylistic thing: I was just at the Backspace Conference, where in the opening pages agent-author seminar, the agents stopped reading […]
Read moreRevisiting the Fantasy Manifesto
Back when I first started this blog, I did a few posts on the idea of my Fantasy Manifesto– a series of guidelines of what I wanted to avoid in […]
Read moreWorldbuilding: Food and Regionalism
Here are some choice passages from the intro of a book that most people probably wouldn’t think of in terms of worldbuilding, especially fantasy/sci-fi worldbuilding: In bald terms, terroir refers […]
Read moreSummertime and the Living is Easy
Now it’s officially summer, which means that my non-writing job becomes as close to a “typical” day job as things get for me. I do like the change in pace– […]
Read moreBreaking the glass and hitting the Big Red Button
One of the Big Stories out there this week is how DC Comics is apparently planning a hard reboot of their entire universe, re-launching everything as #1 with 52 different […]
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