Writing and Publishing Writer’s Digest: 6 Tips to Writing a Bestselling YA Series GalleyCat: Toni Morrison On Failure Epic Reads: The 18 Most Beautiful YA Endpapers in the World The Book Designer: What the Art of Storytelling Can Teach Us about Marketing Tech Crunch: Amazon’s ‘Write On’ Crowd-Publishing Platform Opens To All “The Amazon platform…
Where are the otherworldly POV characters in fantasy? I don’t mean dwarfs, elves, vampires and werewolves/shifters. I don’t have a problem with those beings. I just prefer characters like the Blood in Anne Bishop’s Black Jewels series and the Others from Sergei Lukyanenko’s Watch series. Otherworldly characters are fascinating. I can’t find books I can…
Writing and Publishing Mythic Scribes: A Beginner’s Guide to Writing Descriptions – Part 1 GalleyCat: Children’s Books Authors Protest Against Assigning Genders to Books “Let’s be clear: I do not talk about ‘girl’ stuff. I do not talk about body parts. I do not do a ‘Your Menstrual Cycle and You!’ presentation. I talk about…
Got world building block? Welcome to the party. I’m still having trouble with my work in progress. I touched on it in the post a A Different Fantasy Land. So, let’s go back to the basics. Where can fantasy world ideas come from? Getting ideas can be difficult if you’re like me and don’t want to do…
Last week was Social Media Week in NYC. All over the city were free sessions about building a digital brand. A few of those involved book publishing. I attended Metadata Meets SEO: How Authors Can Improve Their Book “Discoverability” hosted by Your Expert Nation. Discoverability is one of those buzzy, overused words. But, it’s important….
Fantasy/Sci-Fi/ Horror International Business Times: Oscar Genre Bias: Why Sci-Fi, Foreign Films And Horror Movies Never Get Best Picture Nominations Tor.com: Gritty Power/Rangers Fan Film is a Wonderfully Dark Reboot Tor.com: Oh No, She Didn’t: The Strong Female Character, Deconstructed There’s been a lot of talk lately in the science fiction and fantasy community about…
The things you learn when you have to put a book together. Chains of the Sciell is coming out May 26. To start all the heavy pre-publishing buzz and make it available for preorder, I’d like the book to be done by March. This’ll be the second time I’m putting together a print book in…
Fantasy/Sci-Fi/Horror Mythic Scribes: Writing Warfare in Fantasy: A Guide to the Battle Scene BookRiot: Defining The End of the World As We Know It: Apocalyptic vs. Dystopia vs. Spec Fic Marty Young: The Wonderfully Horrific World of Female Horror Writers SF Signal: MIND MELD: Our Favorite Horror Novels by Women Stashed Neill Blomkamp Confirms New…
Never knew world building dragons could be so much fun. Stuck in your fantasy story? Try doing some image searches. I want dragons in my latest WIP Devortus Reigns. Never used them before. The creatures need to be different…somehow. On to Pinterest and Google Images. I already have a Fantasy/Mystical Creatures board. Follow Auden’s board…
Twitter and Facebook are supposed to drive traffic to my blog. They haven’t in years. I actually stopped expecting them to. I share the blog post out of habit. Not the best way to run a marketing campaign. It’s all about engagement. I mentioned in the previous post, A Round of Links 2/13/15, that I…
