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Absolutely fantastic advice on characters and plot
From Donald Maas
http://typem4murder.blogspot.com/2009/10/creating-your-villain-tips-from-donald.html
http://typem4murder.blogspot.com/2009/11/donald-maass-on-developing-heroheroine.html
http://www.guidetoliteraryagents.com/blog/Agent+Don+Maass+Explains+Your+Tools+For+Character+Building.aspx
http://writerunboxed.com/2009/05/06/protagonists-vs-heroes/
http://missfiddyment.wordpress.com/don-maass-tweeted-by-colleen-lindsay/
Review of Glass Coffin Girls
“If you’ve never read a Paul Jessup short story, imagine you are riding a camel through the desert. Now imagine your camel is suddenly flying, and now that it has grown jet wings and is plunging toward the ocean. In fact, you are now no longer even on a camel, but you can still feel [...]
I got my copies of Glass Coffin Girls!
That’s right, it’s here and it’s real! PS Publishing’s awesome showcase of my short stories (awesome review here), with an intro by Jeff Vandermeer and a cover by Darin Bradley!
Just snagged a copy of Todd and Linda Shimoda’s Oh! A Mystery of Mono No Aware
Okay, so you guys know how I feel about the future of books, and that they need to transcend being words and paper and become objects of affection themselves (which they are, in a sense), right? Well I heard about Chin Music press on the grape vine and I see that they do exactly this- [...]
Alice Hoffman
WTF?
I mean, what’s next? Spamming Amazon with fake reviews? Come on, come on. I’d expect these sort of shannigans from a self published writer, or someone who has fallen prey to a vanity press. But, ugh. This is so unprofessional. You are not a special little snow flake. Welcome to the real world.
Tor.com discusses one of my all time favorite books, Nova
Check it out:
http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=blog&id=31067
Sorry about the chat the other night….
Looks like Apex is rescheduling. Will let you know when that is.
Official Release Day of Open Your Eyes
Yes, Open Your Eyes is now a real book. Go and buy it!
Dave Arneson is still with us…
But in hospice. More information:
http://grognardia.blogspot.com/2009/04/dave-arneson-is-still-with-us.html
Cover Art for Glass Coffin Girls
My PS Showcase collection of short stories called Glass Coffin Girls (containing the fan favorite Secret in the House of Smiles, originally published in the Hugo nominated Clarkesworld Magazine) is gaining speed towards production. I’ve got the cover art to show off and make you go ooooh and aaaah, by the amazingly talented Darin Bradley: