In the interest of full disclosure, Bob and I are trading interviews later this week… In short: Math teacher Bonnie Pinkwater gets caught in a murder mystery centered around a tornado and a dead vice-principal. Despite being the fourth book in a series, new readers shouldn’t have problems jumping in. Four stars. This is a […]
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[A bright light shines directly in author Robert Spiller’s face as the mystery Radical Equations is shoved into the spotlight] We haff questions for you…iff you know vat iss gud for you, you vill answer dem truthfully… 1. When you are working out the who-dunnit side of your Bonnie Pinkwater stories, do you use any
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I interviewed kids' writer Deb Logan about twins, imaginary twins, and confessions of a teenage tree sprite: http://t.co/vn83Bd3Q # Editing for Indie Writers: How to Write a Synopsis without BEING BORED. http://t.co/buVzvoti # Editing for Indie Writers: How to Write a Synopsis without BEING BORED. http://t.co/buVzvoti # Buy a Scalzi ebook and support Planned Parenthood:
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Finally, I work through how much your long fiction is worth. I’m using the most of the same bases of guesstimation as two weeks ago (traditionally published) and last week (short indie fiction). I want my indie books to pay for my time within five years. Why five years? I don’t know. I heard a local
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Appropriately, I have a synopsis to write today. I know all this stuff. And yet I’m still like @#$%^&* synopsis…I hate those @#$%^& synopses…bastards…maybe I’ll make this post just a little longer… Update: done with the synopsis! Fist punch! Yessss!!! Chapter 2, part 2 One more thing before we get down into actually writing the
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I reviewed Thunderbird by Deb Logan earlier, and liked it quite a bit. It turns out when you have a blog, that other writers will let you interview them, if they have time, and Deb did! I emailed her the questions, and she sent me back the answers, so I didn’t get to hold a
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I sometimes take it for granted that everyone who writes has one foot in the geek world. Of course all writers use Facebook and Twitter. Of course all writers know how to blog. Of course all writers have played MMORPGs and tabletop RPGs. Ofcourse all writers are big Joss Wedon fans, have Sandman memorized and
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Alice in Wonderland as instruction manual. http://t.co/IJQS6SO6 # Powered by Twitter Tools
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Note: Forgive me, I have checked and rechecked my math, but I made so many errors the first time through that I can’t be sure I’ve caught them all. Sheesh. All right. This is another tense topic for me, because I suspect I’ve been doing something that makes me happy in the short term but
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If you’re interested, the handout I passed out at the January Write Brain is over at the Pikes Peak Writers Blog. It’s “Roadmap to Indie Publishing,” and can help you grasp what kinds of things you need to consider for indie publishing, from a practical standpoint, like where to get info on setting up a
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