I'm looking for someone who can do cover art for a novel. (I don't need cover design, just the illustration.) Artist must be able to draw/paint realistic (not anime or game-illustration styles, for example) great cats, and human figures possibly in armor (detailed concept sketch would be...
I did say that "social networking" isn't my thing, right? :) I will do what I can to add more/better ways for people to follow my blog. Thanks muchly for the recommendations. My clone is far more computer-savvy than I am, and I'm sure he will be able to help with this.
Brian, I'll be...
The end of November approaches. (Mwahahahaha...!) So chances are, some of you are going to have some fiction in need of proofreading/editing in the next month or two. The next month or so would be a good time to take advantage of that offer of free proofreading/editing to people who follow my...
Unless it has changed a lot in the last couple of years, an IQ of 135 (perhaps 132?) qualifies a person to join Mensa. In 1990, 140 was the cut-off. (I remember this because a woman I know was very angry about not quite making it with her mid-130s score.) They go by percentile, though, not...
There was a time when I could have quoted to you the entire paragraph that comes from. As it is, I could only sort of paraphrase it (and my books are all in storage so I cannot just go and look it up *sigh*). Something about how, when you think you should just stick to something easy and safe...
Considering that the human genome has a gene for slight points on ears (called Darwin's tubercle when it shows up vestigially in modern humans), there is no reason why a species that's usually depicted as cross-fertile with humans -- which means they cannot be much different from us -- couldn't...
THAT makes sense. I've seen it happen with longer works, too: novels that have too much stuff in them, too many different things going on and none of those things really developed.
I'm pleased that someone else thinks anything under 4000 words has "a chronic lack of space" -- especially in...
Hi, NewbieWriter.
Titles aren't easy for some of us. My advice is, don't worry about the title until you have more of the story written. Something you write may suggest the perfect title, and it's better to find it later than to force a title onto a story when it may end up not fitting once...
I can see how this could become confusing... :)
And no, the cats are NOT trained. At least, the one currently in line to be Steerpike's newest understudy for Feline Overlord isn't.
I recall checking it out a few years ago. Didn't stick around, though. To me, it looked like the kind of site that is, shall we say, less than friendly to writers of fantasy and science fiction. Maybe that has changed; I don't know.
There is always a problem with reciprocity when it comes to...
And here I'd been expecting some kind of advice on how to survive an actual redneck attack. You know -- the times when they try to kill you because they caught you reading on your lunch break at work.
Having spent most of my life in a part of the US full of such people, I know all too well...
I don't think that it's 'no one would read a book by a woman,' but instead 'nobody would read a book of this genre by a woman.' Some people have some... antiquated notions about who can write what kinds of stories. And the bias happens both ways; men have to use feminine pen names or just...
There is a difference between high intelligence and high education/knowledge about a specific subject. Not every person with a PhD has an IQ over 135. (In fact, less than half of them do.) Nor does every person with genius-level IQ have an advanced degree. (A few are high school drop-outs.)...