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Is Kickstarter the new way to launch books?

Easy answer? Yes. And no.No, it isn’t actually new.And it didn’t happen overnight. It had a few heavy hitters like Brandon Sanderson to pave the way. But it is becoming one of the best ways I’ve seen in a long time for indie authors to launch their books.The Kickstarter phenomena is intriguing to me, as someone who came from a traditionally published background—with books by HarperCollins,

Refusing the Call 2.0

 The Hero's Journey Reimagined: Refusing the CallI think this is the phase in the journey that has changed the most for me, in life and in writing. Perhaps it is the growing up thing that I fought tooth and nail. Perhaps it is just becoming the Author of my own life, but this phase has taken on a new meaning. On a hero's journey after hearing a Call to Adventure asking for help, the phase known

The "Band of Brothers" in Fantasy #3 -- Celebrating "The Scooby Gang"

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Book Titles

Another in the More than meets the eye series...Rabelais présente Gargantua - Wikimedia CommonsFrancois Rabelais, a 16th Century writer, cautioned against reading too much into a title. He said, [A book’s] title is usually received with mocking laughter and jokes. But it's wrong to be so superficial when you're weighing [a writer's] work in the balance.’ Good advice, especially nowadays when

Celebrating the "Band of Brothers" in Fantasy #2

 .Last month, I kicked off 2023 with a focus on the "band of brothers", which although drawn from myth and folklore, legend and history, is a consistent theme in fantasy storytelling. The Round Table -- a 'band of brothers' overlapping legend & history ,I also explored more of the concept's origins and why I consider the "band of brothers" a quintessential part of epic fantasy, with its focus on

The End - More Than Meets the Eye

More than meets the eye...Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016) WallpaperSome of you may realize that we are approaching the end of an era: Pluto transiting in the sign of Capricorn. In a few short weeks, the most distant planet in our solar system (in astrology, Pluto is very much considered one of the major planets) will transit into the sign of Aquarius for the first time in 245 years

Honing In On 2023 -- & Celebrating the "Band of Brothers" in Fantasy

.Last year, I refeatured Having Fun with Epic Fantasy: the Band of Brothers, a post that first appeared on SF Signal. The play that coined the famous termAt the time, I considered it an interesting sidepost to 2022's What Makes A Hero? series, but in refeaturing it found I could not argue with the central premise that "the famous (Shakespeare: Henry V) quote, 'we band of brothers', speaks to the

2023: Call to Adventure 2.0

2023: Reimagining the Hero's Journey- a Call to AdventureIn today’s world of insta-nowness, writers no longer have a few pages to hook readers. We have a sentence. And if that sentence is any good, we might have a paragraph. Opening lines are key to not only getting readers attention, but letting them know the what and how of your novel. Letting them know exactly what kind of adventure they are

More from “Inside Middle Earth” -- & A Post Yet To Come!

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Loving Stories within Stories

Claire the Librarian by Blackbird Art in AJ Hackworth's Library of the Unwritten.After an unplanned visit to the Cardiac Care Unit, I'm under strict orders not to stress and/or work, for now.... but of course, I can muse, and an idea that grabbed me is that of intertextuality. I've written about it before, so this is basically a repost. See? I am NOT stressing or working, but I did want to share