Julia Vee's Blog, page 9
May 26, 2017
Renegade Profiles: Sci-Fi Author Jon Cronshaw
Author Jon Cronshaw JV: Why do dystopian/post-apocalypse novels all have zombies? Haha. Although these sub-genres have a lot of crossover, they also seem to be tackling different primal questions. With dystopian fiction, the core questions are about the ways people are controlled by a ruling class and how it’s possible to change the world. Zombie […]
May 24, 2017
Nail Your Opening Line With Tips From The Great Masters
It’s hard to write that first hook. You want to grab your reader, drag them right into your story…but how? I struggled to do this so I just started pulling books off the shelf. Some of these opening paragraphs (or even just the first sentence) really nail that hook. Consider this one: “I’d been waiting […]
May 22, 2017
Techology + Teamwork = Magic
When Writers Get Together and Use Instafreebie I wanted to start building a newsletter mailing list of science fiction fans for the launch of Cold War. So I started from zero. After Ken formatted our book on Draft2Digital, I put it up on Instafreebie. The first few days after just sticking it up there, 33 […]
