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July 14, 2011
48 Hours Left…Depending on When You Read This
The Great Second Annual Joseph Devon Fan Art Extravaganza Giveaway Contest is coming to a close for this year! I added more words to the name because that makes it better.
You have 48 hours left until Friday the 15th at midnight EST when the contest officially closes. And then, to be honest, you probably have until I get up on Saturday morning when I get to my computer and write about how the contest is over.
So far there have been some great works submitted, the usual slew of drawer...
July 8, 2011
Short Story: Cook-Out
Over at Chuck Wendig's blog he has a weekly fiction contest. It's looked like fun to me for a few awhile now, but I haven't had time to enter.
Well, I finally got a short story finished by the deadline. The challenge was to write a 1,000 word short story combining the 4th of July with Horror. This was really weird because I love the 4th, and summer in general, and taking all the mainstays of those and making them dark was kind of painful…in a fun way.
Anyway, here it is:
Cook-Out
by
Joseph Devon
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July 5, 2011
10 Days Left in the Art Contest
The Second Annual Joseph Devon Fan Art Contest (I really need to shorten that next year) has TEN days left for entries.
Get a move on people.
To inspire you I've placed Jack Davies latest entry below. Please click on it for a larger size so you can actually read it.
I laughed.
Quite hard.
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June 28, 2011
5 Tricks Every Writer Needs To Know
Over the course of almost a decade of writing I've come across a few tips that I felt like sharing with other writers. These are pretty simple and should help you on your collective creative journeys.
So let's get started.
My 5 Tricks For Every Writer:
1. Write: This is the really annoying one. This is the one I trip up on most. I look up articles on writing and read blogs about writing or remember books I loved that made me want to write…but all the while I'm not writing anything.
One simple...
June 22, 2011
Art Contest Entry From Jackson P.
Upon opening up the prize packages to include an iPad I was immediately inundated with a slew of new entries. I was happy about this, glad that the iPad was attracting more casual artists to the contest.
I wanted to share one of these works which I found particularly evocative.
This was submitted by Jackson P. It was created using the "Cupcakes" app on the iPhone.
I found this to be a stunning entry.
The multi-flavored jellybeans, of course, represent each character's constant struggle with...
June 21, 2011
iPad Added as Prize to the Fan Art Contest
Looking over the budget for the Fan Art Contest I realized that an iPad is well within range for a prize offering. So I added one to the prize list. A lot of people who enter maybe aren't crazy big on the art stuff so this is a nice fun prize that anyone can enjoy and play Angry Birds on.
There's only like three weeks left so get to reading Probability Angels and Persistent Illusions and then start sketching and drawing and photographing and whatever crazy voodoo it is that you do so well!
Mush...
June 18, 2011
Another review of Persistent Illusions
Have you picked up the sequel to Probabiliy Angels, Persistent Illusions, yet?
jd
June 14, 2011
New York BBQ Festival
This past weekend was the New York BBQ Festival. I went and stuffed my face. This is one of those things that my group always talks about going to but then never does. This year I'm happy to say we made it, though I do have to recommend arriving at around 11:00.
I go there five minutes before everyone else and managed to eat a fried blackberry pie while waiting. Then I wept openly on the sidewalk. God that pie was good.
Sadly I ate it too fast to photograph, but here are some other shots. Most ...
June 7, 2011
Writing Urban Fantasy or No I Don't Write Porn
During the course of an average conversation with someone I've just met, the fact that I write books usually comes up. This is always followed by the question, "Oh? What do you write?"
I always respond, "Urban fantasy."
Why do I respond in that way? Because that's what I write. Urban fantasy. Here is the definition straight off of wikipedia:
June 2, 2011
Probability Angels T-Shirts Now Available
My Cafepress store is open again! That little square button on the right will take you there or just click here.
What's available?
Well, have you ever wanted to wear my words across your chest?
If so…that's sort of weird.
But have you ever wanted a t-shirt with my favorite Probability Angels quote concerning scotch on it?
Something like this with sleeves?
Long sleeve, short sleeve and fitted all available here.
Also there's a new fridge magnet. Go nuts.
Hopefully there'll be more of this stuff to...
