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Mad Swede replied to the thread Do you have jokes/silly moments that don't make it into the final cut?.Writing this as a former brigade commander, you have no idea what it's like to be on the receiving end of a briefing like this. You're... -
Mad Swede replied to the thread Reading LotR for the First Time: Beauty and Morality.I think you should read LoTR all the way to the end, as this may make you rethink some of what you wrote. It isn't quite as straight...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread LAUNCH DAY.Be honest now. If you or I knew the answers to a question like that we could write a real best-seller on how old wrecks like us find our...
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I think we discussed this, but my wife Katie was on Allt för Sverige and She did a singing tour of Sweden, a TV Christmas special, and...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread LAUNCH DAY.Not something that ever happens at Swedish book signings. Contrary to popular impressions, Swedish women are fairly shy.
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They were very nice boobs. Definite career high point. (For those not tracking, at a signing some years back when my books were really...
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Holy crap, it's still climbing. #70 right now.
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BOOM. Top 100, Military Fantasy. With no social media. Go ahead and keep telling me why SM is important; I wasn't listening. aters.
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Hey, STONELANDS is live. Get it for cheap while you can. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GWYG1H1G BIPOC MC! Dokkalfar! Women snipers...
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Translation is a separate art from writing. For a good translation, you'll have to do away with any machine translations. I have done...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Writing in different languages.You haven't said how well you know this other language, so it's hard to say how much effort you'd need to put in. I'm fluent in several...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Writing grim dark fantasy with self injected main character.If your story gets published you will be judged. You may not want that, but it will happen. All you can really do is choose whether to...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Mr. Grumpy Pants Offers Sage Advice.If you want to call the process by which publisers find a new author and/or book to publish gatekeeping then do so. But in my view that...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Mr. Grumpy Pants Offers Sage Advice.I wonder if you and pmmg haven't missed my point. I wrote that publishing is a form of venture capitalism. And it is. My books are an...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread To map, or not to map?.I have a sketch map of the setting for my stories, and also sketch maps of some of the towns and places where things happen. This is...
