Recent content by Prince of Spires

That's a good question. I can see both being possible. The safest approach for the bandits is of course to just half-ass it. Try to be imposing and bluff the knight into submission. If he puts up more than token resistance, run for the hills. I remember reading somewhere that several cultures...

People want to talk about their passions. Especially if you run into more obscure passions, then they can't share those with many people. If you're interested in sports, there's always someone to talk to. However, not that many people care about the specifics of social structures in 17th century...

It does make me curious how something like film rights ever get sold. Imagine being a legitimate buyer for film rights, and you've found this amazing book you want to make a deal on. Send the author a message. 99 out of 100 times that just gets deleted as spam. Must be hard work.

You've got the economy backwards. Being a Damsel in Distress (DiD) is an honorable profession. After all, those knights in shiny armour are good money for the bandits. That shiny armour costs anything from $10.000 to $100.000. Same with a well-trained war horse, not to mention ransoming the...

There's a whole economy behind it even. After all, if you've got a princess held in ransom then you may be able to pass off the eventual ransom to a holding company in exchange for money now. After all, princess food doesn't come cheap, and the heating bill for a lava filled moat is horrendoes...

I've got a bachelors degree in astronomy. Does that count?

Congrats on getting it written and published! I'm not sure the nerves ever fully go away. In the end, you're always putting a part of yourself out there for other people to judge. That remains scary somehow.

Have you tried Google.com?

I prefer the reversed approach. Unless the specific term is plot important, just put it in there and assume that either the reader will catch up and understand enough to know what you mean, or he'll not care and move on but will have learned something about the character (namely that he's the...

There are 2 ways of looking at this statement (and I disagree with both...). From a writer's perspective this makes no sense. You can't know everything as a writer and these words and phrases actually add a lot of depth and character to a story. If you have a character who would likely know...

There are about as many ideas about pricing as there are writers out there. The truth is no one knows what exactly will work for your book and generate most sales. The second truth is that it is very easy to change your price. If you try one price and find it doesn't work, then just try a...

Same as grown-ups, but I make the font smaller to indicate they're small people... In all seriousness, I think children are hard to get right for the simple reason that it very much depends on the age of the children. An 8 year old will react very differently from a 10 or a 12 year old. Boy vs...

I personally think the villain monologue has its place. It just needs to be done well (as with everything), and that's a hard thing to do. And when done well, most readers wouldn't really recognize it as a villain monologue. Unless you're going the cartoonish villain direction of course, then...

To go a bit deeper: If you publish directly on Amazon, the main thing you need to decide is if you use KDP select or not. When you choose KDP select, then you have to publish your ebook to Amazon exclusively. The one exception is that you can upload to libraries, but not to any other store...

It really depends on what's left standing after the appocalypse. And yes, old textbooks help. Though a lot of those still assume a basic level of having stuff available. Yes, you can get electricity by hand cranking, but what if you need to make the wires to create the dynamo? How would you go...