"If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that." – Stephen King My favorite books, since I have been writing, are the ones that catch me as I read and show me a new way of looking at my own writing. Taken by Erin Bowman helped me think about Read More
While reading Erin Bowman’s debut novel Taken last week, I got to thinking about how writers of fantasy or dystopian worlds pre-plan. Do we start with the world and how it came to be or do we start with the premise and expand? Warning: I will be discussing the world within Taken and this does include some spoilers. Taken begins Read More
Did you all hear that Harry Potter 8 will be out soon? It’s going to be written under the pseudonym J. K. Trolling. I’ll admit that isn’t mine; I got it from Trade Chat. Anyways. As a self-published, indie author I have been asked my opinion on the whole J. K. Rowling pseudonym situation. The short of it? It doesn’t Read More
