Bryan Young's Blog, page 24
October 5, 2011
A Book Signing
I will be signing copies of Lost at the Con, Man Against the Future, and The Colossus at Dr. Volt's Comic Connection on Saturday, October 8, 2011 from 12pm - 3pm.
Dr. Volt's is located at 2033 East 3300 South in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Also signing will be Tyler Kirkham (who is working on Green Lantern: New Guardians) and Jake Black (Ender's Game, Supergirl, and he's written episodes of Brave and the Bold and Ben 10).
I hope to see you guys all out there. The staff at Dr. Volt's has been a...
Dr. Volt's is located at 2033 East 3300 South in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Also signing will be Tyler Kirkham (who is working on Green Lantern: New Guardians) and Jake Black (Ender's Game, Supergirl, and he's written episodes of Brave and the Bold and Ben 10).
I hope to see you guys all out there. The staff at Dr. Volt's has been a...
October 3, 2011
Lost at the Con - Audiobook
One of the projects keeping me busy is recording (with the help of renowned musician Mark Dago) the audiobook of my first novel, Lost at the Con.
We'll be done with the final product by the end of the month and it should be available by the beginning of November, but we have Chapter One finished and I wanted to share it with you guys for free.
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD (or listen) TO CHAPTER ONE of LOST AT THE CON, as read by me.
If you like what you hear, you can pick the book up at the Los...
September 28, 2011
Pub Quiz Trivia
Some of you might know that I have been hosting a weekly Pub Quiz (along with Shannon Barnson from the Geek Show Podcast) for the last couple of years. I write forty questions a week and I didn't realize how much material I'd come up with until I put it all together. Writing trivia is a learned skill and I can definitely say that I've gotten better at it.
In my early days of the Pub Quiz, I looked high and low for resources I could go for trivia questions and no good options existed. Now...
August 31, 2011
A Great Piece of Writing Advice
I found this piece of good writing advice from Brian K. Vaughn. You might remember him from Y: The Last Man and as a writer on Lost.
According to him (and I agree completely) the secret to being more successful as a writer is as simple as can be:
According to him (and I agree completely) the secret to being more successful as a writer is as simple as can be:
WRITE MORE, DO OTHER STUFF LESS.
That's it. Everything else is meaningless. You can take all the classes in the world and read every book on the craft out there, but at the end of the day, writing is sorta like dieting. There are plenty of...
August 22, 2011
50 Rules and Tips About Writing I've Collected Over the Years
I have twenty or thirty notebooks and journals filled up with snippets about writing, my plans for stories, bits of dialogue, interesting ideas, plotlines, scraps of short stories, and a dozen other things. I carry one with me at all times and it takes me a couple of months to fill one up.
One of the things I've kept in one of my notebooks was a collection of writing tips and rules that I've collected over the years in my travels. From teachers, from books, from wherever. Most of my caree...
One of the things I've kept in one of my notebooks was a collection of writing tips and rules that I've collected over the years in my travels. From teachers, from books, from wherever. Most of my caree...
August 17, 2011
UPDATED: My Dragon*Con 2011 Schedule
So, I moved too late to get a table for the show (I was numbered in the hundreds on the waiting list), but I did manage to find myself on a panel with my good friend Janine Spendlove (author of the ridiculously popular and very fun to read War of the Seasons books).
Mon 1:00pm Self Publishing vs. Traditional Publishing in YA- In this era of instant media, what are some advantages and disadvantages of self-publishing your YA novel, vs. the traditional path often taken?
Janine Spendlove...
My Dragon*Con 2011 Schedule
So, I moved too late to get a table for the show (I was numbered in the hundreds on the waiting list), but I did manage to find myself on a panel with my good friend Janine Spendlove (author of the ridiculously popular and very fun to read War of the Seasons books).
Mon 1:00pm Self Publishing vs. Traditional Publishing in YA- In this era of instant media, what are some advantages and disadvantages of self-publishing your YA novel, vs. the traditional path often taken?
Janine Spendlove...
August 15, 2011
Why Pottermore will be good for all of us
I got into the early beta for Pottermore this morning and I've spent a lot of time messing around with it. It's immersive and fun and I've spent way too much time there.
You can read my full thoughts about the experience itself on Huffington Post or Big Shiny Robot!
But there's something else about it that excites me as an author: I'm not even the biggest Harry Potter fan, but sitting there trolling through all the behind the scenes content of the books, I was dying to get the digital ve...
The Whiskey Doctor and other stories about the new Great Depression
I have a brand new three-pack of short stories available for .99 cents on the Kindle and Nook today. This one is called "The Whiskey Doctor and other stories about the new Great Depression".
It contains three stories:
The Way It Is
The Whiskey Doctor
By the Bootstraps
Included below is from the introduction to the collection:
Some of my favorite art and stories grew out of the plight of the "working class" and those affected by the Great Depression. From Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath to ...
August 14, 2011
An Orgy of Laughter: Three books from the fringe of society
If you've been interested in picking up a digital version of Lost at the Con but haven't yet, you might be interested in a new three pack of humour books.
I've teamed up with Warlizard and Jen Ashton to put all three of our books together in one collection.
It's called "An Orgy of Laughter: Three Books from the fringe of society" and you can pick up all three books together for $9.99. Separately it would be a lot more than that. The link to get it on the Nook will be up shortly.
I'm g...
