Happy New Year internet! Have a rant I originally posted to Live Journal on January 4 2011. But I think it’s worth archiving here. The trouble with adapting a story to another media, is that if that story is already practically perfect, any changes you make in the act of adaptation are more likely than …
…but first, a warning: THE FOLLOWING POST CONTAINS EXPLICIT, DETAILED SPOILERS FOR THE END OF BLACKOUT/ALL CLEAR, AND SOME VAGUE SPOILERS FOR ANATHEM. READERS WHO HAVE NOT READ THESE TITLES AND CARE DEEPLY ABOUT HAVING KEY PLOT POINTS REVEALED TO THEM SHOULD GO AND READ BLACKOUT/ALL CLEAR FIRST, AND THEN POSSIBLY ANATHEM, (not so much because I spoil …
Foreword: This is the second in a series of journals I’ll be posting about book covers, and how to make them. It is intended for the self-publishing writer with limited resources, but anyone who has any interest in creating covers can hopefully find some helpful info here. For my part, I am a self-publishing writer, but …
I was recently at a dinner gathering where I wound up engaged in conversation with a teacher. She was an English teacher, she said, she taught children how to write. She got very interested when she learned I was a writer, and asked how I dealt with my writer’s block. First I was amused that …
Foreword: This is the first in a series of journals I’ll be posting about book covers, and how to make them. It is intended for the self-publishing writer with limited resources, but anyone who has any interest in creating covers can hopefully find some helpful info here. For my part, I am a self-publishing writer, but …
I think I am a writer/artist (as opposed to an artist/writer), but to be perfectly honest, what I am is someone who makes up stories. Sometimes they get written down; sometimes they get drawn. Sometimes the artwork is there to illustrate a story; sometimes the story comes from a drawing. And sometimes (quite often, in …
It’s late, and I’m very tired, but I couldn’t help but feel the need to tell you all that my personal fiction podcast, Radio Grimbald is finally online! I have one episode up, which you can find over here, and I hope to update it every week with a new story. The site is still a bit …
It has become apparent to me from reading the relative blogs on the subject that self-epubbing as a means of making a living is not the “normal” way to go about it. If there is a “normal” way to do this I don’t think it’s going to survive in its current state for much longer. …
I have not updated recently on the grounds that there has been nothing to update about. I have not finished any novels, published any novels, or really done anything that would merit a mention on this blog. This is not to say I have not been busy. I have been very busy. Mired in things …
In my experience going to conventions I have had the pleasure to meet some rather famous people. None so famous as Brad Pitt or Justin Bieber, but well know in their circles. It is all about finding your people, I think. If you only have 5,000 fans in the world, you will still be given …