by editor | Jan 5, 2018 | Articles, Guest Contributors, Writer to Writer, Writing Process
By Matt Harry, author of Sorcery for Beginners Bullying plays a key part in my debut novel Sorcery for Beginners. The main character, Owen Macready, is 13-years-old and the new kid at his school in Henderson, Nevada. He just wants to keep his head down, but one day,...
by editor | Oct 25, 2017 | Articles, Guest Contributors
By Jeanie Kortum, author of Ghost Vision and Stones Kenya, 1984. I first knew the cutting was close when the sun rose and the young girl who had been dancing all night, bleating through a whistle, was dragged across the clearing by an old woman and lowered to the...
by editor | Sep 27, 2017 | Articles, Guest Contributors, Resources for Writers, Writer to Writer, Writing Inspiration, Writing Process
By LB Gschwandtner, author of The Other New Girl (She Writes Press, Sept. 26, 2017) Here’s a fine, standard piece of writing advice. Every writer has heard it. “Write what you know.” But what does it really mean? In Jann Martel’s The Life Of Pi, a boy is...
by editor | Sep 21, 2017 | Articles, Book Publishing, Guest Contributors, Writer to Writer, Writing Process
By Barbara Sinor, Ph.D., Author of Finding Destiny (Marvelous Spirit Press, 2016) As I sit at my keyboard this morning, I begin to wonder if another book resides within me. I promised my readers there would be a sequel to my novel; in fact, my publisher stated this at...
by editor | Jan 3, 2017 | Articles, Guest Contributors, News + Features
By Joseph Arellano Let’s suppose you’ve spent a few years in a rock band, The Runners. You haven’t starved, but you’ve just managed to get by in terms of life’s necessities. Finally, the band releases a first album, It’s The Runners! It may not be as big as Meet The...
by editor | Sep 26, 2016 | Articles, Guest Contributors, News + Features
By Tad Williams As someone who writes what I think of as “hard” fantasy — similar in purpose to “hard science fiction”, that is, with a strong emphasis on the possible — I research all the bloody time. I don’t believe you can make a working fantasy world in which most...
