Recent content by Mad Swede

If you're going to do this in a way that doesn't feel forced then you need to think through the culture in your setting in som detail. The question you're trying to answer is "how do people swear?", and the answer depends on how that culture sees things. To take some real life examples, many...

They do indeed. Facebook, Instagram etc. But I guess my main message would be that these scammers are intelligent, motivated and organised. They make money, otherwise they wouldn't keep at it, so they're motivated. They're intelligent, because they know how to set up AI tools, internet scrapers...

More than that, this whole business runs on personal contacts so your agent will have an ear to the ground and will have heard about their interest in the book. .

I write speculative fiction, and I guess most in the English speaking parts of the world would call it low fantasy. With that written, I try to keep things plausible, so I do a lot of research into things the various characters do. How, for eaxmple, were fishing nets made in medieval times? How...

The books will arrive from the printers on a few more pallets than that, and the books also have to be repacked when being sent to the book stores. When you add my new books to the new books from other authors (some of whom have larger print runs), plus all the existing stock (which includes a...

You need to start being wary now, and above all you need to follow Writer Beware and also Bewares, Recommendations & Background Check on Absolute Write. Parts of this community are open to the internet, and you'd better believe that scammers out there try to identify who people are and how to...

Thank you. What has come as news to me is how much internal coordination my publisher does when planning print runs for their various authors. It wasn't something I saw very much of in the early days, because back then the print runs for my books weren't very large. But now that we're talking a...

Well, pmmg started the following thread on what to do when your book is finished: Book Finished, what now?

Naruzeldamaster mentioned an odd e-mail that he'd received in a thread in Chit Chat, and today Writer Beware published the following article on their blog: The First Clue to en Email Scam May Be the Address

Well, it's the fourth novel but the fifth book given that I also have a collection of short stories out there. There's another collection of short stories planned as well, but I don't have quite enough short stories complete for us to go with that yet.

No, that starts in September. That's when the first interviews start, and the first book signings will be in October, with more in November. The interviews are booked, and most are with regional or local newspapers (who also put these out on their web pages) as these seem to have a better strike...

...the proof reading is done and the galleys are set. The fourth novel is good to go. I'll admit to some nerves, especially now that I know the size of the first print run: 7500 copies. My publishers are expecting to do a second print run, possibly even before Christmas. The first print run...

It's another so-called fishing attempt, where they send you an official-looking e-mail and try to get you to visit some pagfe or click on a link. If you hold your mouse pointer over the sender's e-mail address or over one of the links you'll see where they really want you to go.

Yes, it is possible to export complete conversations from XenForo, but you cannot filter to export only one users comments. No you can't do an export here on Mythic Scribes, us normal users don't have those privileges or access rights. Also, each user owns the copyright to their own comments etc...

You're in a group for writers. One of the skills that makes a good writer is being able to express themselves clearly in writing, because that then leads on to the ability to write in a deliberately obscure way when needed in the story. I know this next bit sounds harsh, but if you can't express...