Ten Things I’ve Done That You Probably Haven’t
Inspiration is a funny thing. It’s way of outright stealing an idea without having to pay for it. So without further ado I’ve been inspired by Mary Robinette Kowal (who in turn was inspired by the human/blog hybrid John Scalzi). Scalzi posted a list of ten things he’d done that his readers probably hadn’t. Mary [...]
Self Publishing Addendum: Money Now?
Inspired by this excellent post by Chuck Wendig: “Self Publishing: A Mother******* Checklist” (sort of NSFW if your boss is prudish about swearing), I wanted to clarify one of the main arguments for self publishing, and that’s the idea that by self publishing, particularly on Amazon’s Kindle, you can start making money right now. It’s [...]
Get your zombie on: Part 3
So the heroes have found each other, the zombies don’t move that fast, and everyone has enough food. The obligatory serial killer has been fed to Boris the pet zombie, Boris is securly chained to a Buick and everyone’s happy. So how do you keep things interesting? Threat escalation. When the walking dead by themselves [...]
Get Your Zombie On Part 2
Yesterday I discussed picking the right kind of zombie for your story and figuring out how you survivors got into the situation they’re in. These tend to apply no matter what kind of zombie story you’re telling. A zombies in space story will have more in common with a zombies in regency England story than [...]
Get Your Zombie On
I’m a big fan of zombie fiction. Something about the walking dead appeals at least as a fictional device. I also find it easy to write, but recently several people have said that they find zombie fiction difficult, so I thought I’d write up a quick primer for anyone who wants to get their zombie [...]
Preemptive Resolutions
So, it’s Boxing Day here in New Zealand (that’s right, I LIVE IN THE FUTURE) and I’m thinking about New Year’s resolutions. I don’t think I’ve ever stuck to one properly, and I think hat maybe that’s because everyone gives themselves a free pass on New Years to leave their resolutions in a ditch on [...]
Permission to write?
This post was inspired by Mur Lafferty of I Should be Writing. In her most recent podcast she pointed out that one of the greatest gifts a writer can be given is time, space and encouragement to write. She isn’t wrong (Mur is rarely wrong), often in our lives we have ten million other pressures [...]
And the winner is…
Two days ago I decided I wanted to give away a copy of the excellent book for writers The Handbook of the Writer Secret Society. I should run competitions more often, I go a lot of comment from people who are amazingly lucky (and in on case both lucky and unlucky). I’m glad I decided [...]
Self Publishing? Part three: Huge support networks
Right, back to self publishing. There is really only one remaining set of people that can really look at self publishing, and that’s those people lucky enough to have a support network of marketers, advertisers (not the same thing), designers, web gurus and super ninjas. Note I said support network, not hired help. The ONLY [...]
We interupt this rant for a review. “The Handbook of the Writer Secret Society”
I’ve just done another review, this time of the excellent “The Handbook of the Writer Secret Society” from Peevish Penman Press. Normally I just link to he reviews page, but today I’m going to post the review right here on the front page, because I’d like to give away a copy of the The Handbook [...]
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