Recent content by A. E. Lowan

Okay, I'll bite. This is our fiction library, which resides in the living room. We have a big office, but it's not big enough for the whole physical library, and thank heavens for ebooks because there are at least this again in digital, so about 2000 more titles. A lot of our physical books are...

And then I posted all of it to the biggest group I'm in, 20Booksto50K, which has 77.5k members, all in publishing. Hope that's not the name she wants to do business with. When I say that publishing is an industry where reputation is everything because everyone knows everyone else and their...

Oh, oh I am so much worse than that. One FB group where I'm visible and contribute a lot is Fans of Urban Fantasy. Awesome sexy group, just a fantastic place to chat and find your tribe. Pretty sure our lady scammer found me through one of these groups. So, I'm pretty sure she's going to see...

Yeah, it's so very bad. 😜 And the scary part is how many writers will push aside all of the red flags and go charging in, anyway, just for any scrap of validation.

So, we get one or two messages from scammers a day, and I usually just wield the Ban Hammer and keep on with my day. But today I got wrapped up in a couple of things and forgot to lay down the ban. And then this happened. Hoping it comes up in something like order. I suck at this part. lol

That would be hysterical. 😜

Yeah, so in true Irish tradition, I kneecapped someone last night. Also in true Irish tradition, that someone was me. I innocently scooted my chair closer to my desk and drilled my right knee so hard into the solid wooden leg that it launched my baby ultrawide monitor off its stand and right at...

Yeah, that happens to me, too. I've gotten to the point where I just stuff information into my squiggy little brain and let it all percolate until something interesting floats to the surface and then I'm sitting bolt upright with a cry of, "The Pleiades!" at 3am. My wife loves it. :P I totally...

This is what's called a 'continuity error,' and like the others said it happens all the time. My team has a massive timeline to keep sorted out, and every book that's released, every story, every flash, once we hit publish they become canon. So, of course we find continuity errors all the time...

I've been thinking about this, about why it works for me and why it wouldn't work for you and probably a whole lot of other people, and I think that in part it's due to learning styles and also writing styles. I am an extremely visual learner. If I read something, I'll usually remember...

No going to disagree on that. College served me well, but that was only because I made it. I took everything I picked up and used it to augment and strengthen my writing, even when I thought I was going to go down another path. It really was my mentor, and she is still, who read some of my...

I don't see why you couldn't do both. Hero's Journeys are often all about self-discovery, while adventure is happening left, right, and center. It gives depth and complexity to the character, can go a long way to explaining the initial Refusal of the Call, and can support the evidence of her...

And what's a first book without a villain monologue? :D ~~ Cian’s breath was coming in short, sharp gasps. It was his fault? His parents had died because of him? But he looked back to Midir and again saw that smile. This time anger kindled in his belly, burning back the guilt and some of the...

And since we're having fun with monologues, we do tend toward the monologue here and there. I think they can definitely be abused, but if one has a light touch it's fairly easy to sneak them by the reader. We've got two just in Faerie Rising that we've always been pleased with. Here we have a...

I started college very late due to some issues with my financial aid. It was pretty simple. My parents refused to fill out the parental finances section of the application. Yeah. So, I didn't start until I could file as an independent student at 24. I came in as a Medieval Studies major, and...