I am giving away 5 signed copies of MOTH AND SPARK to celebrate my birthday next Saturday. I am NOT inviting 144 guests to dinner. :-) You can...
I must be the only person in the world who didn't like Name of the Wind. I quit on page 70 when there still wasn't a woman.
I just ran across these, which are excellent. I was lucky enough to have dinner with Terry last week, and let me tell you, he's a smart guy....
Nearly every writer I know thinks the first draft is garbage and won't show it to anyone, AND has to keep reminding themself of this. Mine...
Huckleberry Finn Hung the Guest The Gunsmoke and the Opportunity The Labyrinth of Eternal Drapes
This is an interesting article. I need to read it more carefully before I can talk intelligently about it, but I thought it was worth sharing....
I've been working seriously with Scrivener for the first time today, and the good news is that it makes it really easy to see the weaknesses in my...
MOTH AND SPARK is pretty traditional fantasy with magic, politics, romance, dragons and a strong, smart, female lead. My WIP, which is a sequel,...
I wasn't suggesting a *need* for a name change, just saying what the word implies to me and what I would expect to get if I put something up,...
Some random thoughts: I suspect one of the reasons criticism devolves into nit-picking is that nit-picking feels like it's being helpful when a...
A lot is going to depend on how the slaves were used. In "New World" slavery, slaves on the Carribean sugar plantations died at a much higher rate...
Someone who went to St. john's college and studied ancient greek and philosophy and spends the first half of freshman year talking about the logos...
Audiobooks -- My novel is available as an audiobook at B&N, but the price is significantly higher than either Amazon or iTunes. If this is...
I just wrote up a blog post on why I write fantasy and kind of surprised myself with the answer once I got to digging down into it -- turns out...
Forest Trolls
I agree with everyone else and add that it's really tough trying to do it alone (which obviously you know, or you wouldn't have posted). Have...
So umm, this is a total shot in the dark and may be way off, but are you a Johnnie? And if that makes no sense to you, you aren't. The user name's...
I'm really glad you posted that link, Phil. I was going to as well. There was a guest post on SF Signal recently that covered some of the same...
I think the real issue is not whether you list where you're from, your credentials, your pets, etc. - it's that A) it looks professional and not...
General guideline is 85K-125K for an adult novel. The Nebula Awards defines fiction by length as follows: * Short Story: less than 7,500 words; *...
