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Tweet Just a quick note to let you know I was interviewed by a local writers’ group: The Gold Coast Speckies and that interview is up on their site today. The GCS is a fun and active bunch and the interview reflects their slightly off-beat approach. I enjoyed doing it and it presented a few [...] Tweet Worldbuilding is one of the essential skills of a science fiction or fantasy writer. I’d go so far as to say it separates the greats in these genres from the mediocre. It is also the arena in which the writer is required to exercise their imagination to its fullest, or else leave the reader [...] Tweet I came across a tweet today. It was from a complete stranger, about a book I’d never heard of. This is the full text: “Whassamatter with you guys? 127 minutes to go and the offer for a FREE Kindle copy of [Book Title] closes! Tick tock…” Reading between the characters (tweets are so short [...] Tweet Emma Newman, rising star of the YA science fiction world, has just posted a thoughtful piece on her blog about why she doesn’t like giving writing advice. As with many of Emma’s musings, it got me thinking. My view on free advice in general is that tends to be worth exactly what you paid [...] Tweet What does a novelist need from a publisher? The question might sound a bit daft but, when publishing your own writing is so easy and so cheap, and finding a publisher is so hard, a writer really needs a good answer to this question. A related question is, what does a novelist need from [...] |
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