GraniteCon 2013 Roundup
I spent the weekend signing books at table 823 at Granite Con. My table was over by the Delorian from Back to the Future III, which was a huge draw and brought over nearly everyone who attended. My perspective on the con is limited by the fact that I didn't wander...
50 Types of Minor Characters (Part 5, 10-1)
You've got your heroes and your villains. You've even got a sidekick. But who inhabits the rest of the world? World-building is as much about people and cultures as it is about geography and magic. Minor characters are like mannequins that you can dress up in your...
5 Stages of Self-Publication
Doubt, Excitement, Confusion, Frustration, Success, these are the stages you'll go through if you stick with the path of self-publication. You may experience them differently from the writer who comes before you or after you, but you'll see all of these in some...
50 Types of Minor Characters (Part 4, 20-11)
You've got your heroes and your villains. You've even got a sidekick. But who inhabits the rest of the world? World-building is as much about people and cultures as it is about geography and magic. Minor characters are like mannequins that you can dress up in your...
50 Types of Minor Characters (Part 3, 30-21)
You've got your heroes and your villains. You've even got a sidekick. But who inhabits the rest of the world? World-building is as much about people and cultures as it is about geography and magic. Minor characters are like mannequins that you can dress up in your...
Firehurler Word Cloud
Word (Clouds) of Wisdom A word cloud can't tell you a lot about the plot of a story, but it seems to be a good judge of who is in it. Firehurler, it would seem, is a story about two fellows named Brannis and Kyrus. All the major characters show up in the word cloud,...
50 Types of Minor Characters (Part 2, 40-31)
You've got your heroes and your villains. You've even got a sidekick. But who inhabits the rest of the world? World-building is as much about people and cultures as it is about geography and magic. Minor characters are like mannequins that you can dress up in your...
50 Types of Minor Characters (Part 1, 50-41)
You've got your heroes and your villains. You've even got a sidekick. But who inhabits the rest of the world? World-building is as much about people and cultures as it is about geography and magic. Minor characters are like mannequins that you can dress up in your...
Read ‘Em All, You Might Learn Something
"It's good but depressing" is the headline of the first 3-star review I received for Firehurler, just the other day. I've got as thin a skin as the next author, so after receiving almost exclusively positive feedback for my books so far, I cringed a bit. "Have I...
Worldbuilding: Science in Fantasy
So you're going with fantasy as your genre of choice? I guess that means you don't need to worry about science. WRONG! Just because you presuppose supernatural forces to exist, doesn't mean that there can't be science alongside them. What "No Science" would actually...