NANOWRIMO? Not me, I’m doing NABUMAKMO!
I’m actually taking time off from writing at the moment while I work on our family finances and budget. That…
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Alternate Ending For My King Arthur Book!
Just last night my daughter gave me an alternative ending for my book. I already had one plotted out, but…
Making the Reader THIRST! – Part 5
Note that all of these THIRST values can be thought of as “entertainment” values. How much entertainment is the novel…
Making the Reader THIRST! – Part 4
Another question: What’s the difference between tension and suspense? I get my ideas from Sol Stein’s book “On Writing Fiction”.…
Making the Reader THIRST! – Part 3
Paul on ChristianWriters.com asked me a question about my THIRST™ graphs. Here is his question as well as my answer.…
God’s Love In The Midst Of Our Pain
On Sunday we sang “O The Deep, Deep Love Of Jesus”, which is always comforting to me. The song first…
Stephen Lawhead Interview About Magic In Fiction
I found a recent interview with Stephen Lawhead where he discusses his view about magic in fiction.
This is very interesting to me because just the other day I posted about how my King Arthur books will be different from his. One of those points related to the use of magic.
Now, based on what I read in his article, I’m not sure if I was completely fair in my broad brush strokes. Here are a few clarifications:
An Inspiring Story Of Getting Published
In perusing T.L. Hines‘ blog, I came across his post where he shares how he became a published author. He…
King Arthur – My Odds Just Got Worse!!
Here I just posted about how difficult the odds are to get published in the Christian speculative fiction genre, and now my own personal odds just got worse!
I even knew it was going to happen. I just didn’t think it would be this soon. Once Stephen Lawhead started re-releasing his older books (Song of Albion and the Dragon King series) I knew it was bound to happen. It turns out that he was just notified that HarperCollins is going to “re-release the entire Pendragon Cycle in a new edition with new covers sometime in the next year”.
What does this mean for me? I’m not sure, really. Here I am writing a series of books based on the King Arthur myths, and one of my inspirations is being re-released probably around the time that my first book will be sent to literary agents! This probably makes it much harder for an agent to seriously consider my work at this time.
However … there is the flip side that the added publicity could make it easier. Obviously this topic sells. Obviously there is public interest. Obviously there will be some buzz. “Hey, have you read Lawhead? Robert Treskillard has a book on King Arthur too…”
Facing Impossible Odds In Christian Speculative Fiction
Nathan Lambes has written an article for Infuze magazine entitled Clawing Up the Mountain: Christian Speculative Fiction. This is a…
Lessons From The Golden Compass
Yesterday I read a critique of Philip Pullman and his book series (the first book of which is The Golden…
Just Joined “High Calling Blogs”
I just joined the “High Calling Blogs” community. The purpose of this group is to raise to the forefront the…
New “Most Popular Posts” Feature
I’ve added a “Most Popular Posts” feature for the side galley of my blog. Hopefully this will help readers find…
Viral Book Marketing – Part II
One of the thoughts I had concerning what T.L. Hines wrote (see previous post) is that he is really not…
How To Viral Market Your Books
I was reading T.L. Hines’ blog post on viral marketing of books. He has some good advice on how to…
A Book’s Readability vs. Sales
Steven Berlin Johnson wrote an interesting post about the readability of books. He graphed data that came out of Amazon.com’s…
Conquering The Death Crawl
One of the blogs I read daily is Randy Ingermanson’s. He is one of my daily sources of inspiration and…
Making the Reader THIRST! – Part 2
To commemorate my 50% milestone (be it ever so elusive), I am including the “graph” of my book using my…
Book Milestone! 50% Finished!
I am happy to announce that I have finally made it to 50%. I started in earnest in January 2007,…
CSFF Blog Tour Book Hits #1 On Technorati!
I’m new to this whole blog tour thing, but from my check on Technorati, together the Christian Science Fiction &…