Internet research while writing, aka “You Googled what, now?!”
Two thoughts occurred to me tonight, while I was on hold for half an hour, listening to music I think may have been composed by monkeys. Not trained monkeys either: ones that fling poop at you at the...
View ArticleQuerying your book: tips and a glossary of terms.
If you haven’t yet entered the query trenches (or hopped on the query treadmill), you may not be familiar with the terms that get used on literary agents’ websites and places like Twitter to describe...
View ArticleFiction isn’t just imagination: researching your novel
Today’s guest post is by the amazing Nicole Evelina, whose dedication to research is awe-inspiring. Don’t believe me? Check out her blog! I’m a historical fiction writer, so I do a lot of research. But...
View ArticleWill their world survive? World-building for a series
This guest post is by one of my fellow authors over at Turquoise Morning Press, Bobbye Terry. A veteran at writing in created worlds, she’s talking to us today about world-building. Enter, stage right,...
View ArticleRe-imagining A Myth: ‘Endre’ Blog Tour
I don’t know if you guys will recall my posts from back in July as part of Team Ull. I even wrote limericks. Four of them. Well, Ull is the tres sexy main man in The Elsker Saga by ST Bende, and — in...
View ArticleResearching your setting
Today’s guest post is part of the From Australia With Love blog tour, and is by YA urban fantasy and fantasy author, K. A. Last! There’s also a giveaway as part of the tour, which you can enter HERE!...
View ArticleResearch: the geography and climate of Egypt
Today’s guest post is by Katie Hamstead, whose book KIYA: Rise of a New Dynasty (the third in the Kiya trilogy) came out last month. I love these books like a crazy person, if you hadn’t already...
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