Bring on the Novel! I’ve had a back-and-forth tussle with myself and with readers for over a year now, about short versus long stories. It’s not at all cut-and-dried, these days. When traditional publishing was the only game in town, everyone wrote novels. Period. More, they were very long novels–especially in this century, when paper costs […]
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Uncover Buried Treasure If you have hundreds of books on your reader, but can’t find anything to read, then read on for nine tips to clearing out the clutter and catching up with all the great reads you forgot you had… Pick an ebook format as your “primary” format. Thanks to smartphones, tablets and the
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There was a post on HuffPo on Sunday that went viral. “Google Engineer On Leave After He Claims AI Program Has Gone Sentient” was sent to me by three different people. I’m not surprised so many people thought to send me a copy, as I tend to write about sentient AIs a lot. They’re scattered
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I’m in a Story Bundle! And the Aliens Among Us StoryBundle has only a week to go! Here’s the details from the curator, Dean Wesley Smith: All Fun! One thing science fiction fans think about when you say “Aliens Among Us” is aliens like body snatchers, or Grays flitting around Area 51. None of that
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Space opera is generally optimistic in nature, although sometimes it can take a very dark turn, especially New Space Opera. I tend to lean toward the happy, unbeat endings, myself. I prefer them in my reading, too. But sometimes the characters and situations just won’t let me take a story in that direction. That’s what
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I’m in a Story Bundle! Here’s the details from the curator, Dean Wesley Smith: All Fun! One thing science fiction fans think about when you say “Aliens Among Us” is aliens like body snatchers, or Grays flitting around Area 51. None of that in this group of great novels and stories. Just great books with
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If you’ve read the Iron Hammer series, then there’s a bonus in today’s anthology release — a short story from the series. “Insanity is Infectious” is from Lyth’s point of view, not Danny’s. A real change of pace! It’s also a standalone story; you don’t have to have read the series to enjoy it. Space
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A couple of weeks from now, Stories Rule Press’ Space Opera Digest 2022: Have Ship Will Travel will be released. It’s edited by Tracy Cooper-Posey, one of the other authors on SRP, and I have a story in it; “Insanity is Infectious”. The story is part of the Iron Hammer series, but you can read
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Late in 2020, I was sitting around with the other authors at Stories Rule Press, coming up with production schedule ideas. Basically: “What shall we write next year?” I don’t remember who’s idea it was, but someone suggested, half-joking, that I should write my new space opera series, which had eight books, in eight months.
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I’ll have a lot more to say about this book and the writing of it on release day. For today, let me just say that I’m seriously glad the series has ended, from a marathon writing perspective. And I just know I’m going to go into withdrawal, soon. Danny and her friends have been around
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