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Disabled Writer Furthering His Career @Kickstarter

If you noticed a lack of articles lately, it has been due to me working on my Kickstarter campaign. I did a lot in a short time. I decided after my Social Security disability expired that I would probably not get the support from the government I need to get better. I started Kickstarter with the hope that I can get a small boost to make books, to then generate an income, that I can then use to find a doctor and do all the things I need to, in order to get better. It’s a long shot, I’m sure,...

Updates to the Madness Bundle Giveaway

It has been two weeks and I have only gotten one email response back. In light of that, I am redistributing the prizes.

Grand Prize (All books, first book release of my next coming book, and first book by Kim Daniels)

Nicohle Christopherson

First Prize (Both my Current release of my books)

asariasmarr

Furthermore, the next person to send me an email will get a copy of my book Terran Psychosis. The next person after that will get a copy of Scraping By. Note that these cannot be obtain by the same p...

Guest Post – Ten Graphic Novels for Novelists – Gerimi Burleigh

Today our friend Gerimi Burleigh joins us to share with us Graphic novels for Novelists. This is in reference to his interview I conducted, to where he made a passing remark about what would make good Graphic Novels for people like me who enjoy a good novel.

Check out his interview and be sure to take a look at his recommendations.

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1. Watchmen – V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd

What’s it about?

Set in an undisclosed yea...

Worldbuilding #9a – Basic Forests

Welcome to another edition of the Worldbuilding series. I want to first want to apologize that it has taken me nearly a month to get this out. I am dealing with doctors and working on my disability and that always takes priority over anything else I’m doing right now. I am hoping to try to make up for it this month, but we’ll see what happens.

We just got done doing mountains. Forests are an indirect result of mountains, as water falls on mountains from the sky and create rivers. Rivers affec...

Plan of attack

I’ve taken the last few weeks off from everything. In my IWSG post, I will explain more. But I wanted to do an article today, mostly for myself as a declaration. It is good to write down your plans, as it becomes a little bit more real when you put something from your head down on paper. It’s like giving a face to an idea that can stare back at you and remind you of what needs to be done.

So I want to make up for the lack of worldbuilding articles I’ve done. I always want to do more, and yet a...

Madness Bundle Giveaway — Winners

Now is the time to announce the winners. Congratulations to all of you. I had hoped to have more people sign up, but I decided that instead of releasing 2 prizes, I would instead release 4 prizes. The winners listed below will have 1 week to send to submit in the form below so I can send them an email with their prizes. Please send me an email chris@chrisvotey.com

Grand Prize (All books, first book release of my next coming book, and first book by Kim Daniels)Michael Lockwood

First Prize (Both...

Book Review: Fresh Cut by Eve A. Floriste

I recently met a wonderful writer and we exchanged stories to read and review. The agreement being that we give HONEST reviews of each other, even if they would be bad. I have given this 4-stars for a review on her Amazon page and I want to spend a bit telling you what I like and why I boast it being a book that every writer should read.

First let me say that this was a hard book to read. First off, there is little positive things going on in this book. It went from bad to worse to even more w...

Release of the Flight of the Valkyrie by Kimberly S. Daniels

First off, congratulations are in order for our friend Kim. She has put her third book on the market, the second in her Valkyrie series. Her first book is actually available for my contest as a thank you to my fans. It is a good read and if you want to try to get a copy of it, then go here to sign up.

Declassified from human to cyborg and accused of crimes against humanity, Colonel Vladia Robespierre is on the run from Terran officials. But when Mars refuses her sanctuary, Vladia and her allie...

Update to my Disability

I am writing mostly to state that for the rest of the month, my activity on this blog will be light. I just got word from Social Security Administration that I have been denied disability. I knew it was going to happen, however it still hurt when it did.

People always say you should have hope. Yet when you have hope and maintain a positive attitude, when you fail, you fail hard. I think people say it because they believe that if you believe it will happen, then it will happen. I do it because...

Interview – Gerimi Burleigh

Today we meet Gerimi Burleigh, who is both a self-publish artist and writer. You though writing a story was tough, imagine how much more of a challenge it is to do both.

Gerimi was a delight to chat with, and we ended up having such a long conversation that I had to break it up into 3 videos. I do apologize for the delay of this, but there were initial technical difficulties that I had to counteract post production.

Text Interview

1. Tell us a bit about yourself.

I’m an LA-based comic book writer...