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July 13, 2015
Ink Deep Editing Interviews Me
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Erica Ellis, over at Ink Deep Editing, was kind enough to interview me a while back, and it allowed me to explore issues such as cross-genre writing, brand awareness as an author, and how life experience plays into the old adagewrite what you know. When you get a minute, stop by Ink Deep Editing and check it out. The link to the interview follows. Author Interview: Nat Russo Source: Ink Deep Editing| Erica Ellis| Pr...
July 11, 2015
Buying Your Way Onto The NY Times Bestsellers List
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As a bestselling author, I’m often greeted initially with enthusiasm. “Oh! You’re a bestselling author? How cool!”– Most strangers I meet. Then they discover I’m an independent author who self-publishes, and their tone takes on a different characteristic. It’s what I like to call the “isn’t he cute” tone. Oh. You’re talking aboutAmazon. I thought you meant areal bestseller list. What the average...
July 10, 2015
Time is Running Out!
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Less than 12 hours remain until Necromancer Awakening and The Road To Dar Rodon go back up to normal price! Don’t let this pass you buy. The last free promo of this magnitude was over a year ago! So head out to Amazon ASAP and grab your free copies before the Amazon gods flip the off switch on the promo!
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July 9, 2015
Infinite Waters: 9+1 Speculative Fiction Short Stories now Released! | Nicholas C. Rossis
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July 8, 2015
My Birthday Gift To You
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My birthday is coming up later this month (July 31st), and I’d like to celebrate by giving back to my readers. Starting today, andfor a limited time, you’ll be able to downloadbothNecromancer Awakening and The Road To Dar Rodon to your Kindle device or app atno charge! That’s right.FREE! I can’t thank you all enough for the incredible outpouring of support you’ve shown me. Not a day goes by that I don’t get emails, tweets,...
July 3, 2015
The Problem with Adverbs
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If you’ve been studying the craft of writing for any length of time, you’ve undoubtedly come across countless writers who think adverbs are evil. As you can see from the previous sentence, I don’t think they’reevil. But I do think you need to exercise caution when using them in your fiction. We should startby defining what they are. Then I’ll talk about the problem with adverbs in general and offer a demonstration of why...
June 29, 2015
Steel and Bone
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Shovel the coal and stoke the boilers as nine steam punk authors explore islands of mystery and adventure across the seven seas. The Clockwork Seer by Katherine Cowley: On an island of oddities, a young clairvoyant struggles for normalcy, but deadly automatons have other plans. Sindisiwe by Scott E. Tarbet: A slave girl in Zanzibar escapes a beating when a stranger in the marketplace proves her past is more than just a fairy ta...
May 19, 2015
Necromancer Falling Teaser Trailer
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I know, I know! Things have been very quiet around A Writer’s Journey lately, and I apologize for that. But I think you’ll appreciate why.Because of my limited writing time, I had to make some difficultchoices between writing new articles or completing Necromancer Falling,the sequel to mymetaphysical fantasyNecromancer Awakening. I’m happy to report I recently completed the 1st draft,and I’m preparing to go into...
May 9, 2015
Seeking Beta Readers
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* * * BETA READERS WANTED * * * If any of you are interested in beta reading Necromancer Falling in JUNE of this year, PLEASE EMAIL ME AT: betareading@erindorpress.com PLEASE INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING INFO:– Whether or not you have experience beta reading, and in which genres. (What I’m getting at here is this: “Do you enjoy Fantasy?” If the answer to that question is no, you’re going to hate Necromancer Falling. )– Your preferre...
May 3, 2015
Cuisine a la Card
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I’d like to take an unusual detour this week to discuss a unique new card game that I discovered several weeks ago. The game is called Cuisine a la Card and is being developed by InMotion Software by way of a Kickstarter campaign. But don’t let the word “Software” fool you! Cuisine a la Card is a competitive and unique deck building card game that you play on a tabletop. If you’ve ever watched and enjoyed a cooking competition s...
