Guest Post: The View From Halfway by The Little Red Reviewer
I am writing this guest post from the halfway point. The kickstarter for The Best of Little Red Reviewer runs for 30 days, from Jan 2nd through Jan 31st, and I am writing this guest post from day 15. I thought all the hard work would be before the kickstarter launched, and then afterwards if it funded. Prior to launch, I had to figure out what exactly The Best of Little Red Reviewer would consist of, how kickstarter even worked (Thank you to my friends who answered my ten thousand questions!), identify editors and book designers, hire a graphic designer to create the cover art, film a the kickstarter video,…
Guest Post: “Plausible Fictions and Strange Realities” by Stephanie Saulter
Readers of this blog will know that I absolutely love the (R)evolution trilogy written by Stephanie Saulter. Not only is it excellently written and tells an emotional, action-packed, intelligent tale, it also hits relatively close to home in my case. As a bioscientist I was not only fascinated by the science fiction, but also by the plausibility of the science Stephanie used in her books. It is great to read a book that uses my area of expertise as a scaffold to build a whole story around. When I talked to Stephanie at LonCon last year, I mentioned that for me, as a scientist, I thought it was incredible that…
Guest Post: ‘Good Vs Evil’ by Michelle L. Johnson
Good vs. Evil is a common theme in fiction. After all, without it where would all of our beloved superhero stories be, from Superman to Batman? The inner struggle of those characters, the good vs. evil within themselves, is a large part of what makes them interesting. In my novel DIVINITY, though, don’t assume that the traditional good vs. evil, angel vs. evil, rules apply. They don’t. Every character – angel, human, and even the terrifying A’nwel – has an agenda. They each have a role to play, and a purpose that guides their actions. When our main character Julia discovers that she is half-human and half Archangel, her agenda…
“I never knew you were like that…” – Guestpost by Geoffrey Gudgion
People have said some strange things to me since Saxon’s Bane was published. “I never knew you were like that,” an elderly lady from my local church said to me one Sunday. “Like what?” I asked. The question made me stop in my tracks, and the departing congregation flowed around us. She shuffled, making that eyes-lowered squirm with which Christian ladies of a certain age simultaneously mention and avoid mentioning delicate subjects. “Well, you know…” “No, I don’t know. What’s the matter?” I sensed that the subject causing her such embarrassment was of a reprehensible and possibly sexual nature, and my mind raced in a frantic ‘Oh-God-what-have-I-got-to-be-guilty-about’ way. I drew…
Guest Post: The Zombie Hero – Eleri Stone
Writing the Zombie Hero I pitched Reaper’s Touch as a cowboys versus zombies story. It’s historical western + romance + bio-plague apocalypse. Most people were interested enough to take a look at the (very unofficial) blurb: Abby dreams of a normal life though she has trouble imagining what one would look like. She doesn’t know how to farm, cook or sew a dress. She only knows how to kill Reapers—the slavering once-human monsters who terrorize the border towns she patrols. She’s not after the gold and glitter lifestyle the aristocrats enjoy in their mountaintop cities, but she knows there has to be more to life than this endless war. Born…
Guest Post: “My thoughts about reading a Fantasy book” by Wauter Biasino (Songstikal Blog)
My thoughts about reading a Fantasy book…I must say, I enjoyed it quite a lot actually. However I don’t know whether I will read more Fantasy books. I’m just not a reader I guess. It just takes so long until I get to the end of a book, especially Fantasy books ‘cause they are most of the time pretty thick things!On the other hand… I liked ‘The Warrior Heir’ from Chima a lot and I didn’t need to force myself to read it so… good job Chima!The first thing I needed to get used to was the English. I never read an English book before so that was a bit…
