Cultivate Creativity in Your Day Job & Down Time
Before “breaking in” to a regular income–producing readership, most novelists, poets, and essayists toil away at day jobs while wordsmithing on the side. But just because you have a day job doesn’t...
View ArticleFoil Narratives & Fairy Tales
Fairy tales and folktales get handed down, repurposed, and woven into new contexts and patterns every day. We see them in ads and single-panel cartoons, in similes, short stories, and novels. And yet...
View ArticleWeekly Roundup: 2/11–2/17
The Telegraph: Fairytales Too Scary for Modern Children, Say Parents After my last post I thought it only fair to highlight that some people don’t think fairy tales are appropriate for children. I...
View ArticleWeekly Roundup: 2/18–2/24
SFWA: 2011 Nebula Award Nominees Announced If you read speculative fiction, you should check out this year’s nominees for the Nebula. If you go to the announcement on the SFWA website, you’ll not only...
View ArticleDouble Roundup: 2/5–3/9
Catherynne Valente: Work Is Never Over: On Publishing and Its Many Faces I posted a review of some of Valente’s work earlier this week, but I also found some of her blog posts well worth the read....
View ArticleHow to Name a Hero, with Alex Bledsoe
Today’s post comes to you from novelist Alex Bledsoe. He has been a reporter, editor, photographer, and door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman. Today he’s the proud author of the Eddie LaCrosse series,...
View ArticlePack Rat Perks: Why Keeping All Your Ideas Comes in Handy
We all have a lot of ideas. Not all of them are good ideas, and many get discarded. But for writers and other creative types, if you can find a way to squirrel away even your bad ideas, you can have...
View ArticleAnnouncing My First Book
Spiced sugar cookie truffles I’m not exactly new to publishing, working with publishers, or working with materials that I know will be published. But my latest project does have me doing something new:...
View ArticleNew Webcomic: Children of Eldair by Rachel Oaks & Jemma Young
Koe LeKai was content to live his centuries-long life isolated in his cavernous home, but a strange sign in his stargazing lures him away from his solitude. Upon encountering a horde of monstrous flesh...
View ArticleThe Familius Christmas Anthology 2012
Remember not too long ago when I mentioned I had a book coming out? Well, now it’s out! Actually, it’s been out for a few weeks now, but it took awhile for it to post to all the major stores. I give...
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