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Seducing the Reader: Part 3

Or, how to bring your reader to a fantastic finale and satisfying conclusion. Part 1 is here.  Part 2 is here.  Bringing a book to a close is an important stage in both writing, and reading. Leave your reader unsatisfied, and they may not return to try another work. But if you are writing a […]

Correlations and Causations

I’m postponing the final post of the seduction series until tomorrow. I’m still recovering from a migraine, and the brain, while no longer attempting to escape my skull, is having what I call a rebound effect. It’s not pleasant, but it could be worse. I was thinking, though, about the correlations between creativity and various […]

Just How Dead?

So, if I miss a deadline, is my project dead? Or me? Or… (Mirror-posted over at Amazing Stories Magazine) Reading, writing, researching… I am hard at work on the novel in progress, and looking at my deadline for completion coming up far too quickly. Writing is a tertiary career, at the moment, behind my business, […]

Trickster Noir: Snippet 1

I might as well start the ball rolling. I’m not certain of the release date at the moment, but like Pixie Noir, I will release the first quarter of the book here, on my blog, a bit at a time. Sundays are a good day for me to do snippets, as I’m usually working, or, […]

Now Departing…

From reality, naturally. Mirror-posted over at Mad Genius Club Do you need to research when writing a fantasy novel? Not only yes, but please, do! Far too many are written without any research at all, hinging on the author’s limited imagination and lavish dollops of magical interventions. First of all, resist the urge to use […]

Review: Nocturnal Origins

I read Amanda S. Green’s Nocturnal Origins quite a while ago. And then Nocturnal Haunts, the novella bridge, and Nocturnal Serenade, the sequel novel. Why am I doing a long form review now? Well, because after much impatient waiting, Nocturnal Interlude is coming out! The third book in the series will be available for purchase […]

Alterations and Tailoring

I was thinking this morning about fanfiction, plagiarism, and renovating vintage clothing into something beautiful. I read Mad Genius Club almost daily, as I find what the other bloggers there have to say about writing and publishing interesting and often useful. Kate Paulk’s post this morning about filing the serial numbers off, followed by Amanda […]

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Seducing the Reader: Part 2

  Or, how to get your reader to take your book to bed with them Once you wrote the great pick-up lines, hooked in the reader and got them to shell out money to take you  home with them (through your book, of course!), what’s next? We’ve all read books that began well, but after […]

2013 In Review

Cross-posted at Amazing Stories Magazine While I have taken the time to look back at my reviews over the course of the year, this post is more about reviewing than it is the year. At some point in 2013 I decided that the only way to keep myself reading was to commit to reading books […]