If you’re writing a post-apocalyptic story or a tale set in the Middle Ages, you might’ve found yourself doing some plant research. The Sciell’s Legacy: Book 4 of The Merging Worlds Series involves this kind of research. In The Lost Sciell: Book 3, we see the world slowly crumbling as war begins. In The Sciell’s Legacy, the world’s ended….
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…
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…
I attended the webinar How to Blog Meaningfully and Grow Your Audience by Jane Friedman and Writer’s Digest University. She said a list of links can drive more traffic to your blog. I’ve seen other sites do this. I visit SF Signal everyday for their SF/F/H Link Post. My resource pages have the most pageviews. I…
“In his house at R’lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.” For years now, I’ve come across this phrase, Cthulhu Mythos, but never the definition. It must be one of those things everybody knows. Authors have been using it in articles and blog posts, often, but they’ve never taken the time to define it and, me being…
We writers research…a lot. It’s unavoidable. No matter what you write, you need to look something up. We know you can’t automatically trust anything you read or see on the Internet but you need to vet books as well. How do you determine if a resource is reliable? Date This is more for printed materials but it can be applied…
You’d think with the awesomeness that is Google we could do all the research for our books online. Yeah, I thought that too and was way off. In a novel I wrote, I gave my protagonist a gun not thinking much about it. On the re-read, I realized I knew absolutely nothing about guns but made the weapon an important fixture…
It’s a good thing I’m a nerd. So, I’ve been hearing a lot about Pinterest. This is supposed to be a great tool for writers and publishers. Seriously, it comes up all the time! So, Pinterest is now added to the many Social Medias I’m active on. Pause while bang my head against the nearest…
Apparently, spending years writing the book is not the hardest part. Being a writer isn’t just about writing. I’m reading Publish Your Book: Proven Strategies and Resources for the Enterprising Author by Patricia Fry to get a better handle on what it takes to publish a book. She’s constantly saying no matter what route you go, you have to do…
As I said in Into the Unknown, I’ve been searching for a full-time job. You’d think after hearing all the doom and gloom people keep spewing about the job market, I’d be frightened or, at the very least, worried but, I’m not and I have every reason to be. As an undergraduate, I’d apply for…
