This week’s inspiration series deals with television. I was about to jump out there and say TV shows spur very little in the way of ideas for my books. However, no sooner did I start to type that, when I realized the topic is “Television”, not just TV shows. While TV shows don’t bring to mind many ideas for my… Read more »
When it comes to getting the scientific details right in fiction, the clichéd advice to “write what you know” is one of the best pieces of literary advice. Why? Because if your actual background is well-grounded in science and you can turn a proper phrase, your science-based novel is going to be a hundred times more authentic than even… Read more »
Blogging isn’t my day job, but it is my passion and my super power. I am like Clark Kent in my office, doing spreadsheets and going to meetings. And then…BAM!…book blogging superhero. It may not sound like a very exciting super power, but I can be at a Wizard’s school one day and in the court of Henry the Eighth… Read more »
All writers agree that reviews are important. The number of reviews independent books and stories receive on vendor websites impacts where those books are seen and advertised. The more reviews, the higher the rank and broader the profile. There are many, many reviewers and sites offering a chance to earn a review. And it can be tough to gain a… Read more »
Am I a Critical Reader? Despite what people may think, doing an honest and comprehensive review of a book isn’t as easy as it may sound. Sure, anyone can say, “Oh, that was a great book.” Or, “I hated that author and will never read their books again.” But there’s so much more to it than that. A reviewer has… Read more »
Romance. You see it everywhere, in movies, tv shows, plays, books. Especially books. Now, I don’t know about you, but personally, I am a lover of the Fantasy genre, and I expect epic battles and torn worlds and little limitations on creativity for races (werewolves, vampires etc.) and alliances between worlds. I mean, you could literally get away with anything because it’s fantasy. I… Read more »
The picture above is me. My father is a fair-skinned black man and my mother is an EXTREMELY fair-skinned white woman, which is why I look the way I do. Due to my mixed heritage, I have a very complicated relationship with my unbelievably curly hair. When it grows, it doesn’t get long, it gets big. And by big… Read more »
Young Adult Genre: Not just for young adults? This is my first guest post ever and before I get started on my topic of the day, I just want to thank Ashley from Truth about Books by A Fae for inviting me to write for her blog! So. My topic is actually a question that I’m going to answer: Why… Read more »
Wondering if it had improved any with age in the forty-five years since I garnered my gentleman’s “C” on a book report from an English teacher likely being generous, I again cracked open The Old Man and the Sea. While my first reading of a fish story about the one that got away bored me to tears, or maybe only… Read more »
So what’s the deal with copy editors and proofreaders, anyway? It seems that typos, spelling errors, and grammar issues are more common these days, and not only with self-published work; cost-containment constraints cause the big publishers to siphon money that previously would have gone to editing and reallocate it to marketing. Perfection is an impossible goal, and there’s a point… Read more »