Good afternoon, squiders! Hope your week is going well! I finished a new chapter on my edit and the next chapter is rolling along, so I’m feeling pretty good. WriYe’s April Blog prompt is: What author do you admire the
Patreon Rights Grab?
I got a disturbing email from one of the other authors I follow, Holly Lisle, this morning, concerning Patreon. We all know Patreon, right? It gives people the ability to give some amount of money to creators (musicians, artists, writers,
Interview with Adrienne Monson, Author of Defiance
It’s my pleasure today to be hosting Adrienne Monson, whose second book in her Blood Inheritance Trilogy, Defiance, came out in February. The Blood Inheritance Trilogy tells the story of two warring races–Vampires and Immortals–and a woman trapped in
Fiction in the Forward
Forwards are odd bits of a book. You don’t see them a lot in fiction works, but when you do, it tends to be in books where the author is purporting to have “found” the manuscript somewhere and, through whatever
Following Authors Across Genre
I was, for some reason, thinking about J.K. Rowling this morning, and wondering if she’s disappointed in the sales for her latest book, The Casual Vacancy. Sales for it have been decent, more than decent, really, but 120,000 copies in
The Trend of Using Authors As Characters
I was tempted to have this post’s title rival Tuesday’s, but then I got lazy. Recently, I’ve noticed a trend of using real people – authors particularly – as characters in novels. I guess it was only a matter of
Aging Authors
I don’t know how many of you caught my post at Turtleduck Press mid-February about how I believe that we are not only a product of our experiences, but also what we’re exposed to, and how important books can be
