Bryan Thomas Schmidt's Blog, page 36
March 30, 2012
Space Battles Official Release Announcement & Cover
Full Throttle Space Tales #6: Space Battles Edited by Bryan Thomas Schmidt Flying Pen Press, 264 pp., tbp, $16.95, Release Date: April 18, 2012 Red Alert! Red Alert! This is not a drill… Anna Paradox's "Between The Rocks": The Courtly Vizier, a utility truck, renders aid to a colony ship but when they return to [ Read More ]
March 29, 2012
Top 10 Silliest Things People Get Annoyed About On The Web
We've all seen it. People flaming mad over silly things someone did on the web. And I'm not talking political or religious posts or family infighting, either. I'm talking fairly common little things which really shouldn't be that big of deal to anyone. They are always things that really deserve people getting riled up about [ Read More ]
March 26, 2012
Write Tips: The Power Of Diligence
In a recent interview with Charlie Rose, Steve Martin talks about how important diligence has been to his success. And the website Study Hacks, which explores how some people succeed and others don't explores his comments. I also recently read that a high percentage of Robert Frost's most acclaimed poems were written after he'd reached [ Read More ]
March 23, 2012
My Panel Slate For Constellation in Lincoln, NE
Well, the Con Programming Chair from Constellation in Lincoln, NE, April 13-15 sent me my panel schedule. I'll be launching Space Battles there as well as promoting my other stuff. More details to follow when I have them. Elizabeth Bear is the GOH. Hope to see some of you there. Character Building – Saturday, 11 a.m. [ Read More ]
March 22, 2012
The Importance Of Strategy & A Career Plan For Writers
I recently commented on a post by Mike Duran, an author friend, who got slammed by self-publishing fans for the gall to suggest one might actually want to have patience and explore options before rushing into self-publishing. HOW DARE HE?! You'd have thought he was talking about abortion or gay marriage from the vehemence of [ Read More ]
March 19, 2012
Write Tip: How Screenplay Structure Can Help Plotting & Pace In Your Novels
I am a film school grad of California State University, Fullerton. I spent several years working in TV and film and had a script in development at Disney. It never got made. I never got rich and famous. But the lessons I learned from film school and, particularly, the books of Syd Field about story [ Read More ]
March 16, 2012
Write Tip: 5 Tricks To Adapting A Well Known Story For Fiction
It's been done. All too many times, if you listen to some. The story is world famous, well known. Many know its details by heart. Yet it's compelling and you have an idea you know is different—one no one's done before. So how do you keep it fresh? Adapting a well-known story for fiction has [ Read More ]
March 12, 2012
Write Tip: 8 Key Elements For Capturing The Star Wars Feel In Your Story
One of the highest compliments I've gotten on my debut novel, The Worker Prince, and I've heard it over and over, is that it "feels like reading Star Wars: A New Hope." This was very deliberate on my part, and I referred a lot in writing it to Timothy Zahn's Thrawn Trilogy and Kevin J. Anderson's Jedi [ Read More ]
March 11, 2012
Official Table Of Contents: Wandering Weeds-Tales Of Rabid Vegetation (Anthology)
Well, a long while ago I placed my first comedic noir Science Fiction story in an anthology edited by my friend Jaleta Clegg. The table of contents has finally been announced and publication is this Spring from Hall Brothers Entertainment. So here's the official scoop: Wandering Weeds: Tales of Rabid Vegetation [ Read More ]
March 9, 2012
New York Times Bestselling Star Wars Author Paul S. Kemp Blurbs "The Returning"
Star Wars/Forgotten Realms author Paul S. Kemp has this to say about my next novel The Returning: "The Returning blends themes of faith with classic space opera tropes and the result is a page-turning story that takes off like a rocket." Here's more info, including the previous blurb, and I expect a cover image in [ Read More ]
