I’m a resource nerd- new information makes me happy. Through a blog, I found out about The Alliance of Independent Authors. Seriously. How couldn’t I have known about this? I make a point of knowing all the great publishing resources out there, at least the ones that apply to me. The Alliance of Independent Authors is the first non-profit organization…
I’ve never been a huge Science Fiction fan but sometimes there are movies, like Prometheus, I just can’t miss. This was one seriously anticipated movie. My theater usually lines people outside for popular flicks so, I like to arrive about 15 minutes early. By outside, I mean outside the actual room where we watch the movie. For Prometheus, I arrived early…
Wonder what you have to do to get your book advertised on the steps inside Jacob Javits Center. That’s hardcore. My second day at BookExpo America began with a panel discussion called The Real Deal- Update on The African American Literacy. I was excited but cautious of this one since my books aren’t geared towards just one…
Yesterday, I attended one of the concurrent events at the BEA. For those who don’t know, the BookExpo America is like the Auto Show for book publishers. uPublishU was…well here’s the description from the website: Are you ready to take the leap and transform your manuscript to a published book and/or ebook? At the All-New…
Since changing my genre to Dark Fantasy, I’ve been focusing more on Fantasy and less on Horror. For the most part, I’d given up on the genre after the last couple of modern Horror stories did nothing for me. It gets kind of old, reading stories that’re nothing compared to the greats like Edgar Allen…
Horror movie 101- when walking down a dark corridor thinking the distant noise is your lost friend, you’re allowed to call out their name once maybe twice. If they don’t answer, you stop calling! You don’t get louder! The people in Chernobyl Diaries kept following noises and shouting even after they knew something was trying…
Geisel Library, UC San Diego If print sales are down and people are screaming its end, how are libraries affected? The same as everyone else. They’re losing so much money it’s ridiculous. People assume, because of Google, you no longer need the library to do research- which so is wrong. I love that search engine as much as the…
Yesterday, my Google Alerts feed for “publisher” and “publishing” was saturated with content about Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Filing for Bankruptcy. An article in The Huffington Post: Books goes into a bit more detail. They make it all sound so harmless. “Houghton Mifflin said its restructuring has support from the vast majority of its stakeholders, and that it expects to emerge from Chapter 11 by…
For the moment, I’ve stopped working on my second novel, as often, to focus on filling the holes in my world. I’m finding Powers to be the hardest part of World Building. It’s so complicated. I’ve been trying to find some way of organizing information to help me visualize it. Outside of putting it on…
According to Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, when mapping out the history of your Fantasy world you should think about: “How far back are there records or tales of historical events? How widely known are these stories? Do average people believe old tales, or do they dismiss some that have a basis in fact (e.g.,…
