Not sure exactly where this thread belongs. I'm putting it in world building as it strikes me that ideas people might have along these lines would...
I am absolutely blown away by my new cover. So much so I wrote a blog about it... Don’t Judge a Book…
Okay, I have a limited goodreads giveaway thing happening at the moment, but as this is the forum I most attend, I would feel odd not offering it...
This blog is mainly about sci-fi, but applies equally to fantasy: Changing the Rules: A Muse on Science Fiction
We all hate it right? But sometimes there's no way around it... I was going over final proofs for my next book the other day and there is one...
Okay, as I've said many times, I'm not a fantasy writer. I'm a crime/historical/sci-fi writer, but all my work includes aspects of spec fic. I'm...
As a passionate 20yo, everything I did artistically (mainly music in those days) was about inflicting my world view on people. Looking back on...
Why did you become a writer? What weird quirk of your personality...what hideous twist of fate decreed that you would spend thousands of hours in...
I'm sometimes astonished on writers' forums, including this one, to read of people planning trilogies, or even longer series of novels before...
I thought, just for the hell of it, I’d give an insight into one of my own little passions when it comes to fantastical writing. Some might...
This could feasibly go under a different category, but I include success at the craft as well as any other form of success...so fair enough. I'm...
I daresay this has been discussed before... I suspect there is some quirk of our human brains that is always looking for meaning in patterns,...
Fellow MSers... I didn't know where else to post this so by all means move it (or kill it) if it's outside the rules. I was tagged the other...
In a different thread (somewhat derailed) it occurred to me that it would be a good idea to start up a ms appraisal and rating system (paid for)...
I'm offering this thread as a kind of laboratory to discuss what works and what might work for promotion, using my book which comes out in two...
I may be projecting my own values here (my wife accuses me of that all the time) but do you wish to stand out from other writers, or do you wish...
I've written about this a few times as part of an incidental response to the posts of others, but I've had a request to explain it again so it...
I love books with massive plot points/twists which suddenly make you see the whole story in a different light and/or send the story careering off...
