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Bee-lieve, a Fantastical Submission

4 Jan 202018 Jul 2020
Happy New Year! Let's wish for wonders amid the angst that 2020 C.E. will no doubt bring. I would like to make a tiny offering of writer humor. Dear Editor,…
Writing

How to Stop Worrying About the Query Letter

9 Jan 2019
I've watched peers worry over query letters for so long that the fact I have yet to send any to agents or editors for a completed manuscript feels strange. Perhaps…
Story Updates

Release Day: “Grotesquery”

28 Oct 201810 Aug 2020
My first ebook is available exclusively as an Amazon Kindle download. This sword and sorcery fantasy is a short story based (very) loosely on my research of medieval Wales. The…
Writing

Post-Convention Thoughts and Reimagining

25 Oct 201810 Aug 2020
quotes and lessons from MileHiCon 50, a literary speculative fiction convention Modeling the World in Fiction There's a quality of fiction that's modeling--that's showing a model of the world. Author…
Blogging

Moving Shadows Pen Name

30 Aug 2018
This is an announcement of my new pen name-- --and a quick question-and-answer about it. Question: What Do We Call You? Answer: The A stands for several names I've gone…
Writing

David Farland Missed the Point About Discrimination in the Writing World

20 Aug 2018
A recognizable speculative fiction author published a blog post that I feel needs attention before it spreads through the writing community as gospel. In "Discrimination in the Writing World", David…
Story Updates

Goodbye, Camp NaNoWriMo 2018

31 Jul 2018
When I posted "NaNoWriMo 2018: Late to Camp", we were already in the second week of July. I'd committed to a new project and no cabin for encouragement. Feeling alone…
Writing

Pans in the Fire, Hands Writing Ire

19 Jul 2018
Where's the line between Horror and Dark Fantasy? The question bothered me earlier this week. Is my classification of darker works appropriate? I've always heard the Horror genre defined by…
Writing

A Few Ways to Get Publishing Agents

17 Jul 201810 Aug 2020
Though my focus this month remains on my short stories, I know many of the writers I see online are holding on to completed book manuscripts in need of homes.…
Writing

What is Contemporary Fantasy?

27 Jun 2018
Readers use genre to narrow down their interests. Librarians and reviewers want to know how to tag or shelf books. Authors need to reach a suitable audience to sell a…

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