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Flash Fiction Endings
In my role as Splickety’s associate acquisitions editor, today I’m guest blogging at AlmostAnAuthor.com about flash fiction story endings. Get tips on what NOT to do… (click image below for article)
Reviews & Recommendations
Writers: Generating Story Characters with One Stop
Listen, I’ve never had any trouble coming up with my own story characters, thankyouverymuch. My stories are very character-driven. I see their pasts, their motivations, their fears and desires. I know everything about them, and I fall in love. Until I don’t. Until the day that I need a minor Read more…
Completed
Done: #SpecFicCollective Author Marketing Website
Sometimes I get so busy doing things I forget that part of the reason this website exists is to share with my friends what I’m doing! After Realm Makers in August, I was re-inspired to get moving on my vision for the #SpecFicCollective — a virtual community of speculative fiction Read more…
Fangirling
Fairy tale or music video? Why choose?
Music video of “Dead Come to Life” with storytelling mixed in. Let’s think outside the box!
Reviews & Recommendations
Books Read in 2015 and Reading List for 2016
It’s fun to see what our friends are reading. Despite my reluctance to do “what everyone else is doing” (somehow, I have a deep-seated desire to avoid what’s popular, even when there’s nothing wrong with it), here’s a list of what I read last year (more or less; I don’t keep close Read more…
Fangirling
Did Han shoot first? George Lucas explains…
Did Han shoot first? In my mind, it will never change: Of course he did. But once again I feel betrayed by George Lucas. (The first time was in the theater watching Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.*) George Lucas and Revisionist History In this article on Rollingstone.com, George Lucas tries Read more…