Remember, the better the opposition, the more tension the reader will feel because a formidable opponent increases the chances in the reader’s mind that the hero will fail.
Welcome to SFWA # Welcome to SFWA's newest Active member Peter David author of Fable: The Balverine Order (ACE/2010). # @sinspired Nope. It's possible that he was at one time and has been inactive long enough that he's no longer in the system. # @tithenai No cap. Put them on your registration. Choose "manual payment" […]
Friday is the last day to register for the Nebula Awards weekend before the rates go up. http://is.gd/O2tAo1 #
Member News for Laura Ruby, Charles Oberndorf, Susan Dennard, Myke Cole, Diana Peterfreund, Julia Watts Belser, Carmen Ferreiro-Esteban, Kat Howard, Larson Richard, Ryne Douglas Pearson, Arthur Dorrance, Daniel M. Kimmel, William Lawhorn, Eugie Foster, and David Levine.
Writers and marketing. In this digital age, the two words are becoming synonymous, but to what end? Having been on both sides of the fence, this is a difficult post for me to write. This isn’t the sort of thing I care to admit or highlight to people, because writers are a unique breed.
Welcome to SFWA's newest Affiliate member, Arthur Dorrance. # Welcome to SFWA's newest affiliate member, film critic Daniel M. Kimmel. # Welcome to SFWA's newest Active member, Carmen Ferreiro-Esteban, author of Two Moon Princess (Tanglewood/2007) http://is.gd/AtqKyU # Welcome to SFWA's newest Active member Kat Howard (@KatWithSword) with 3 short story sales. http://strangeink.blogspot.com # Welcome to […]
Display your command of language. It’s worthwhile for a writer to think about poetry, and all its devices like assonance and alliteration, metaphor and allusion, internal rhythm, even meter.
If you’ve been reading this blog for any amount of time, you’ll know that I’m fascinated by the bizarre things that happen at the outer fringes of the publishing universe.
Readers want to hope and fear for a character. To feel this, they must not know what WILL happen, but do need to suspect or know what MIGHT happen and feel tension about the possibilities.
A couple of weeks ago, I reported that the parties involved in the Google Book Settlement had applied for an extension of the deadline for authors to file claims for cash payments for works scanned by Google without permission.
Alex Delmore wants out of her dead-end suburban town, but her parents are broke, her brother is an idiot, and NYU seems like a distant dream. Good thing there’s a genie in town—and he’s hiring at the Wellspring Mall.
Steven D. Brewer teaches scientific writing at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He writes steampunky romantasy and fluffy military space opera, often with an LGBTQIA+ focus. Brewer lives in Amherst, Massachusetts with his extended family.
