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February 1, 2013
Kickstarter, Self-Publishing, and Video Games
You've all heard of the literary self-publishing revolution. (Heck, some of you are on the barricades). What you might not know is there is a similar revolution going on in video and board games. It has to do with Kickstarter.
Kickstarter is a funding platform for creative projects. Anyone with an idea for a book, a movie, a game, a technology, or whatever can launch a project page and see if people are interested in funding their project. Authors have used it to self-publish: to fund cover...
Kickstarter is a funding platform for creative projects. Anyone with an idea for a book, a movie, a game, a technology, or whatever can launch a project page and see if people are interested in funding their project. Authors have used it to self-publish: to fund cover...
January 30, 2013
First Impact: CHRYSALIS by Melissa Grebeleski
It's time for another First Impact Critique,
where we take a look at your queries, first pages, back cover copy, etc.
You want to make an impact right from the start. We're here to help
you do that.
If you'd like to submit your first impact material, send it to firstimpactAE@gmail.com. Details here.
Remember, anyone who offers their comments this month is eligible for either $10 for Amazon or B&N OR a 20-page critique from me. I will draw a winner for January in just a few days, so get...
where we take a look at your queries, first pages, back cover copy, etc.
You want to make an impact right from the start. We're here to help
you do that.
If you'd like to submit your first impact material, send it to firstimpactAE@gmail.com. Details here.
Remember, anyone who offers their comments this month is eligible for either $10 for Amazon or B&N OR a 20-page critique from me. I will draw a winner for January in just a few days, so get...
January 23, 2013
First Impact: RACHEL ON FIRE by Vanessa Shields
It's time for another First Impact Critique,
where we take a look at your queries, first pages, back cover copy, etc.
You want to make an impact right from the start. We're here to help
you do that.
If you'd like to submit your first impact material, send it to firstimpactAE@gmail.com. Details here.
Remember, anyone who offers their comments this month is eligible for either $10 for Amazon or B&N OR a 20-page critique from me.
This
week we have a logline and first page for a YA Cont...
where we take a look at your queries, first pages, back cover copy, etc.
You want to make an impact right from the start. We're here to help
you do that.
If you'd like to submit your first impact material, send it to firstimpactAE@gmail.com. Details here.
Remember, anyone who offers their comments this month is eligible for either $10 for Amazon or B&N OR a 20-page critique from me.
This
week we have a logline and first page for a YA Cont...
January 21, 2013
Attention Blog Readers
I'm officially lowering my commitment to this blog, for obvious reasons. I will keep up the First Impact posts as long as I have submissions, and I'll post other things when I've got the time/inclination. But I need to give myself the freedom to back off my M/W/F schedule.
The new official schedule is "One to Three Times a Week and If I Miss a Week I'm Sorry." I highly recommend the RSS feed or an e-mail subscription if you are one of those who still checks websites on specific days.
I don'...
The new official schedule is "One to Three Times a Week and If I Miss a Week I'm Sorry." I highly recommend the RSS feed or an e-mail subscription if you are one of those who still checks websites on specific days.
I don'...
January 18, 2013
Secret Hobbies
Name both these movies, and you win my eternal esteem.
Cross-posted from Anthdrawlogy's Heat week.
I am not a dancer, not by any twisted aerial of the imagination. But I do watch a lot of dance media: Shall We Dance, You Got Served, Stomp the Yard, all four Step Up movies, every single episode of So You Think You Can Dance...
I'm not sure how this happened (I married a dancer), but I regret nothing. Some of these guys are fricking superheroes with what they can do.
So what's your secret...
January 16, 2013
First Impact: LOST AND FOUND AT THE BEAR CLAW BREWHOUSE
It's time for another First Impact Critique,
where we take a look at your queries, first pages, back cover copy, etc.
You want to make an impact right from the start. We're here to help
you do that.
If you'd like to submit your first impact material, send it to firstimpactAE@gmail.com. Details here.
Remember, anyone who offers their comments this month is eligible for either $10 for Amazon or B&N OR a 20-page critique from me.
This
week we have the first page of a black comedy. My...
where we take a look at your queries, first pages, back cover copy, etc.
You want to make an impact right from the start. We're here to help
you do that.
If you'd like to submit your first impact material, send it to firstimpactAE@gmail.com. Details here.
Remember, anyone who offers their comments this month is eligible for either $10 for Amazon or B&N OR a 20-page critique from me.
This
week we have the first page of a black comedy. My...
January 14, 2013
Making Up Fantasy Languages
It's impossible (perhaps illegal, and certainly blasphemous) to talk
about fantasy languages without mentioning the Godfather of Fantasy
Language: Mr. John Tolkien. The guy invented
languages for fun since he was thirteen years old. He wrote the most epic novel of all time just so he had a place to use those languages.
If that's you, read no further. You're fine.
Most of us, however, did not specialize in graduate-level English
philology. So most of us don't really understand how language e...
about fantasy languages without mentioning the Godfather of Fantasy
Language: Mr. John Tolkien. The guy invented
languages for fun since he was thirteen years old. He wrote the most epic novel of all time just so he had a place to use those languages.
If that's you, read no further. You're fine.
Most of us, however, did not specialize in graduate-level English
philology. So most of us don't really understand how language e...
January 11, 2013
Top Secret Project is No Longer Secret
Let me tell you a story about a little boy and his dreams. This boy (we'll call him Adam) wanted to make video games since he was 11 years old and Nintendo Power ran a contest to design your own game.* Back then (the late 80's), the only career paths to video games were computer programming and art. Believing he was no good at the latter, he studied computers for the next twelve years.
But Adam wrote too. Oh, God, he wrote -- and designed, because for him it was always about creating the gam...
But Adam wrote too. Oh, God, he wrote -- and designed, because for him it was always about creating the gam...
January 9, 2013
First Impact: HUNTED by Jessica Hutchison
It's time for another First Impact Critique,
where we take a look at your queries, first pages, back cover copy, etc.
You want to make an impact right from the start. We're here to help
you do that.
If you'd like to submit your first impact material, send it to firstimpactAE@gmail.com. Details here.
Remember, anyone who offers their comments this month is eligible for either $10 for Amazon or B&N OR a 20-page critique from me.
This
week we have a query letter for a YA urban fantasy...
where we take a look at your queries, first pages, back cover copy, etc.
You want to make an impact right from the start. We're here to help
you do that.
If you'd like to submit your first impact material, send it to firstimpactAE@gmail.com. Details here.
Remember, anyone who offers their comments this month is eligible for either $10 for Amazon or B&N OR a 20-page critique from me.
This
week we have a query letter for a YA urban fantasy...
January 7, 2013
Failed Olympic Events
The Cat Toss. For the record, I would totally watch this.
From Anthdrawlogy's Olympics week.
What's your favorite failed Olympic event?
From Anthdrawlogy's Olympics week.
What's your favorite failed Olympic event?
