Tale Chasing

I mentioned in my last post that I was going to talk the search for a good critique partner. This post is going to hit and run on that topic. We’re here because I did infact audition some people as critique partners. And I found a few who were very helpful. Everyone that offered to [...]

It took me forever but it’s finally here. My interview with Mur Lafferty is finally finished and up. I want to thank Chris Moody for taking a first pass at the audio while I was working on another project. His help made it possible to get this up a little sooner. P.S. I think I’m [...]

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I did it! It’s less then two weeks after Dcon and I have an episode up. Granted not my NOTES from Dcon but an episode none the less. This says promising things. This is my feedback from the last year as I was a bad host and didn’t get back to it. That among other [...]

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I was reading a list of questions with links to the answers by The Paperback Writer. There’s a lot of good stuff over there. But that led me to what seems to be a really good resource for writers who are looking for more info on how to plot, create characters, etc. I haven’t had [...]

Twitter is good for so many things. In fact I put up a Twitterview today over here. But among it’s uses, you can set words to pop up to your phone or twitter program that you are interested in. So for example, anytime anyone posts anything about urban fantasy I get a twitter showing me [...]

Over the last few days I’ve been working on my plot cards and deciding how I want to open my story. A part of me wants to sit in front of them until I have each and every card filled out but we all know what that is. That’s procrastination. And that’s bad. So I’ll [...]

Because I felt so tired today, something I’m sure you’ll come across from time to time, I tried my best to put myself in the frame of mind to work on my project. The best way I could think of to do that was take a few minutes and go through some of my RSS [...]

I was really fortunate today to be able to hook up with Scott Sigler for lunch while he’s here in NYC for a book reading/signing for Infected! Not only did I get to sit down and eat sushi but he was really sweet and helped me answer a few questions related to an audio project [...]

On Jeannie Frost’s livejournal she gives aspiring authors a chance to see that even if you are published you never stop learning to working to make yourself better. Read some of her articles as well as a short scene from “One Foot in the Grave“. Her website is under construction but is already looking good! [...]

Hey gang! I want to give you a heads up on what’s in the can and soon to be up. I recorded an interview on Wednesday night with author and podcaster, Chris Lester of Metamor City. We talk about alot of really neat stuff including how podcasting your fiction is becoming so popular. On Friday [...]