Recent content by Momtoast

Sweet. I will have to look into this. I'm in Philly.

Also I don't think it's a huge leap to expect to have some kind of platform before a book comes out. I know big publishers have a lot more money to throw at these things, but they work to get new authors buzz before their books release. Small presses do the same things. I don't think it's...

Exactly. So I'm building up the first kind of platform you mentioned, the social media reach, and trying to do so based on fantasy interest type things. What I'm doing now is trying to figure out what sorts of things would get them to subscribe, to build that second kind of platform of people...

Awesome. I just started participating in a writers challenge, so I'm hoping I see more engagement. Thanks for the advice!

I love creating new cultures, and I think my favorite thing about fantasy stories is the way those cultures interact, and the impact growing up in one of those cultures has on the character. There are so many things that people can differ on, just being raised in different cultures here in my...

So how do we define a platform, a consistent audience like that? I doubt Twitter followers or choose your social media platform counts. I have seen lots of people saying how that doesn't constitute a consistent platform, that they are not an audience so much as a pool to draw you audience from...

writing and singing my way through fantasy worlds

Greetings all. I'm hoping to start growing my newsletter list over this year, so that when my book comes out in the Spring I will have a fan base to announce it to. So here's the question: Do you give away something free when people sign up for your newsletter? What kind of things do you give...

The idea is that they are in these cities around this planet to make it habitable, which is taking a long time. They are there because their own planet was ruined in some kind of ecological disaster, so they are dedicated to doing as much organically as they can. I imagine there will have to be...

I love this show. It reminded me to have fun with my worldbuilding, and to not be afraid to make that dramatic choice.

I love Tabletop RPGs. Right now we are playing MASKS, a teenage superhero RPG using the pbta system. It's a blast. The drama rivals CW superhero shows, and it's effortless to get it to be so much fun.

That's good go hear. Do you have any tips for getting engagement on IG? I have been trying for a bit and not gotten anywhere. At least, no where near as well as I have done on Twitter.

Thanks for all the details. I like to have a few numbers to make it a little believable. I know it will still be a stretch, but the less the reader has to stretch I think the better.

That was my other plan. But I thought people would think it a bit gross if my whole city was basically inside a giant bladder. :P

Ok, so maybe this is more sci-fi than fantasy, but I was hoping you would all brainstorm with me anyway. I have a plan for a novel where everyone lives in floating cities. Each city would basically be an enclosed ecosystem, possibly cycling in things from the atmosphere around them but that...