Yes, I finally bought it (yes, current content is a placeholder only). The totally awesome Tyim Courts is currently hip deep in site design. Things will be moving over there slowly but surely (in about two weeks!). You will all be jealous when you see it!!
“The truth is that most of what comes in is perfectly competent. Stories with an interesting protagonist with a clear motivation, on a journey with a definite beginning, middle and end. The problem isn’t that it’s full of problems. The problem is that it’s competent, okay, decent, moderately well-executed, perfectly servicable… You get the idea.
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I expected to be asked for my website address and author photo from my publisher at some point… I did not expect that that would be this week. Crap. It’s almost November already, isn’t it? Well, I’ll just send them the new URL when I have it. But the author photo really should be done
Just about done with the first pass on Black Desert line edits. Not actually typing them in, mind, just bleeding over the manuscript, which is a mess (yes, that sounds messy, doesn’t it?). There’s this very obvious chunk of the book where I’m just dithering away until I can come up with the ending (ie
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… when someone is going to do this up properly. Maybe I have to be srsly famous first? At least I have an entry!
Wiki Fame: I Keep Wondering… Read More »
Finding good examples of query letters and synopses online can be tough, especially when you’re an SF/F writer. I returned again and again to this one by Lynn Flewelling when I started writing mine. And lo, look, now here’s a whole bunch of them. For those working on Queries, I also recommend Elizabeth Lyon’s book,
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Infodumps bore the living crap out of me. It’s probably one reason why I don’t read a lot of hard SF. Hard SF loves the infodump. The trouble with infodumps is that all they do is get you information. It doesn’t expand on character. It doesn’t move the plot forward. People aren’t moving forward with
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Book checks. They are a tricky thing. Everybody tells you not to rely on them coming on time -or even at all! -but there’s this part of you that’s always planning and scheming and hoping and budgeting, regardless. I’ve been putting off some purchases for awhile because I keep thinking, “You know, it would be
The printer gifted to me by the not-Boyfriend finally bit it on Monday. It was having trouble picking up paper, which I had to reload after every 10 sheets. Then I overloaded it and it made a horrible grinding noise and when I pulled the tray out, several plastic parts came with it. Alas. I
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I hate cutting out cool characters who it turns out you just don’t need for the book. One of my walk on characters from GW got a fairly lengthy scene in BD in a chapter that, well, doesn’t really need her so much anymore (she doesn’t show up later in the book, so doing a
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