Another awesome video from Kurzgesagt. Makes you feel big and significant, doesn’t it? (via www.youtube.com)
A neat review of author Caitlín R. Kiernan’s new work, Agents of Dreamland. This is a quest story. With a sensible middle-aged professor as the protagonist, through a fantastical landscape filled with strangeness. There are ghouls and gugs and tunnels, ships and dangerous forests and the courts of kings. And a consistent undercurrent of hopeful […]
A neat guest post on the Tor/Forge Blog from V.E. Schwab about setting and A Darker Shade of Magic. In essence, A Darker Shade of Magic–or ADSoM for short–gave me a chance to turn my setting into not only a character, but an entire supporting cast. Through the four iterations of London, bound together by […]
From acclaimed thriller-suspense novelists Heather Graham and Jon Land comes “The Rising.” Read an excerpt on the Tor/Forge blog. Twenty-four hours. That’s all it takes for the lives of two young people to be changed forever. Alex Chin has the world on a plate. A football hero and homecoming king with plenty of scholarship offers, […]
This is an interesting article at the The B&N Sci-Fi and Fantasy Blog which examines how today’s writers are reclaiming Lovecraft, and writing about the mythos from a modern perspective. As someone who was influenced by HPL, and who writes modern mythos tales, this is a welcome read. There’s interviews with Kij Johnson, Cassandra Khaw, […]
For those of you using Movable Type as your blogging platform, there’s an interesting, and rarely talked about feature called Boilerplates in version 5+. In this article, I’ll give you a quick tip on how to get them working, and what they’re good for. I noticed this feature a couple of times, but couldn’t figure […]
This is an interesting article for me, as I’m reworking the first chapter of one of my books. I had what I thought was a great opening scene, but it lacked any kind of interest and urgency; it was basically two guys talking in a coffee shop. I changed it so that the first scene […]
This article by Jane Friedman is an interesting one, because it looks at other motives besides money. Do you want the validation of working with a traditional publisher? Do you have a lack of patience? All good points to consider when deciding whether to self/trad publish. All this could be yours. (Image Credit: Pixabay) But, […]
This article is a must-read for artists and writers who want to impress people in shows, and on the back cover of their books. As a guy who occasionally curates art shows and wrangles artists together, I often have to edit and post artist bios. This can be a problem, since artists, unlike writers (or […]
I could have just tweeted this post from Writer’s Life.org, but that wouldn’t have brought anyone to my blog. Ah, I kid. But, there’s some good information in this article. The best advice is this: Keep them short and sweet – screen readers tend to like to skim read rather than read an entire piece. […]
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