Geist!
Philippa Ballantine is awesome. Take my word for it. She’s a Kiwi author who’s novel, Geist, has just been released. Tomorrow is Geist’s release day, in fact, and I wanted to get in and help her promote it. You might know Philippa from her work podcasting and publishing Chasing The Bard and Digital Magic. She [...]
An Interesting Website
I just found a strength training website www.stronglifts.com and funnily enough there’s a lot in there that applys to writing. If you’re interested in weight training, it’s a great read, and if you want to take it up it’s got a really interesting, safe, way to start lifting tin called 5×5* But…of course this isn’t [...]
Help Others, Help Yourself
Writing isn’t an easy job. For the countless hours that you put into your manuscript there’s absolutely no guarantee of a pay day. Even if you write a great book it might never catch on, or you might never even get published. Or, like me, you might find yourself in the middle of a MAJOR [...]
How Things Change
This post could have also been labeled “aieee!” but I would have worried that it would have given the wrong message. Things are actually pretty darn good. For one thing, I’m getting married. I got engaged to my girlfriend DJ, who’s put up with me for coming up on eight years now, last weekend. We’re [...]
NanoWriMo Inspiration and an Update
I’m afraid last month, I was made of failure. I got just over 28,000 words. If I hadn’t been aiming for 50,000 then I would have called that a good month, but I fell off the writing wagon. I spent exactly one minute on self pity, then I let that go, because despite the fact [...]
New Media Ninja; or, why JC Hutchins is the man
JC Hutchins’ book 7th Son: Descent is out. This makes me happy. Not just because it’s good (it’s superb), not just because he’s got a damn snazzy website (although it is pretty damn snazzy), but because any new author trying to make it in the business should take a look at JC Hutchins’ way of [...]
The Down Times
Serial Agent Pimp Nathan Bransford (I love coming up with titles for people, it’s going to get me in trouble sooner or later) has finished the mammoth task of reading 2,500 plus entries and come up with a short list of ten finalists. I’m not one of them. I’m not bitter about this at all, [...]
Bam Crash Pow
Does your story need violence to make it interesting? Maybe. I wish the answer was no, I’ve experienced enough real violence to tell you for sure that it isn’t fun in the least*, but when it comes to stories one of the things readers really respond to is violence. It doesn’t need to be physical [...]
Review of Larry Brooks’s 101 Slightly Unpredictable Tips for Novelists and Screenwriters
I have a new reivew up of Larry Brook’s book 101 Slightly Unpredictable Tips for Novelists and Screenwriters. First 10/10 review on this site, so I think you should go and check it out.
Helping Authors Out Without Spending A Cent
I caught one of ninja agent Nathan Bransford’s blog saying that the thing we, the reading public, could best support our favorite authors by buying one of their books. This is true. Without a doubt the best thing we can do is buy a book. Every sale counts. Still, it’s hard times for most of [...]
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