Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Targeting a Readership Part 5: Where is everybody?

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Targeting a Readership Part 4 is:   http://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2012/06/targeting-readership-part-4.html Ran across a WIRED ar...
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Thursday, July 26, 2012

Don't Kill the Girl

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“Protecting the Girl” is the title of an article by Claudia Welch in the current issue of RWR (ROMANCE WRITERS REPORT, the magazine of the R...
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Tuesday, July 24, 2012

How To Learn To Write

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I've been mentoring an advanced student into the giant leap from novel-length story writing to novella. Yes, it's a giant chasm, a...
Thursday, July 19, 2012

Typos and Other Nits

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I've been reading a nonfiction book from a prestigious publisher, written by a distinguished scholar. Within the first few pages I found...
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Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Worldbuilding with Fire And Ice Part 6: Values Twist

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Here are the previous parts in this series: The first 3 are from a very different "angle" than 4, 5, and now 6 involve.  W...
Thursday, July 12, 2012

Surprise! (Rosebud Was the Sled)

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I watched the Christopher Lee-Peter Cushing film I, MONSTER last week. It’s a fairly faithful adaptation of “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll ...
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Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Worldbuilding with Fire And Ice Part 5: The Great Raid

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In Part 4, http://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2012/07/worldbuilding-with-fire-and-ice-part-4.html we began looking at the 2005 fi...
Sunday, July 08, 2012

America: World leader in ebook piracy ?

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One of those innovative, new technology sites is up for sale. The sort that makes a fortune from exploiting quality content on the internet...
Thursday, July 05, 2012

V-WARS

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Horror writer Jonathan Maberry has edited a shared world anthology called V-WARS, based on an innovative approach to vampirism as disease or...
Tuesday, July 03, 2012

Worldbuilding with Fire And Ice Part 4: Storms of Death

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Here's a post with a list of prior Worldbuilding posts. http://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2012/06/worldbuilding-link-list.h...
Thursday, June 28, 2012

EPIC E-Book Competitions

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EPIC’s (the Electronic Publishing Industry Coalition) annual e-book competition started a couple of weeks ago. The deadline for entry is Jul...
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Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Finding The Story Opening Part 2: Avatar And The Day The Earth Stood Still

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Two blockbuster classic SF films based on an essential child-fantasy (rescue me from this oppressive life; or "Get Me Out Of Here"...