Reading Time: 16 minutesWe read the first chapters of the top ten free spec fic books on Amazon. Today’s list includes witches, dragons, more witches, a Martian mining operation, and more witches.
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Reading Time: 3 minutesFacebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook changing its name to Meta in order to focus on the metaverse. Facebook itself will remain, but will now be just one brand in the Meta portfolio, alongside Instagram and WhatsApp.
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Reading Time: 3 minutesBlue Origin, Boeing and Sierra Space join forces on new commercial space station, Orbital Reef, to be operational the second half of this decade.
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Reading Time: 13 minutesI subscribe to dozens of writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe trailer for the documentary Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck In Time, has just been released. The documentary, follows the science fiction writer from 1982 until his death in 2007, and is based on the 25-year friendship between the author and filmmaker Robert Weide.
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Reading Time: 12 minutesWe read the first chapters of the top ten free spec fic books on Amazon. Today’s list includes time travel, EMP survival, and six books in Will Wight’s best-selling Cradle series.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Oct. 22, 2021 Read More »
Reading Time: 10 minutesI subscribe to dozens of writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
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Reading Time: 12 minutesWe read the first chapters of the top ten free spec fic books on Amazon. Today’s list includes time travel, dragons, goblins, fairies, epic fantasy battles, police detectives and zombies.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Oct. 15, 2021 Read More »
Reading Time: 7 minutesI subscribe to dozens of writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
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Reading Time: 15 minutesWe read the first chapters of the top ten free spec fic books on Amazon. Today’s list includes a creepy cult, werewolves, witches, and lots of dragons.
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Reading Time: 9 minutesI subscribe to dozens of writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
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Reading Time: 9 minutesI compare the top website hosting providers, and take you through setting up a Wordpress website with my top recommendation, DreamHost.
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Reading Time: 16 minutesWe read the first chapters of the top ten free spec fic books on Amazon. Today’s list includes the daughter of Morgan le Fae, alien lovers, post-apocalyptic creepiness, lesbian space pirates, a crime-solving witch, and a crime-solving vampire.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Oct. 1, 2021 Read More »
Reading Time: 10 minutesI subscribe to dozens of writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
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Reading Time: 13 minutesWe read the first chapters of the top ten free spec fic books on Amazon. Today’s list includes magical academies, vampires, sexy shapeshifters, and a clone of Jack Reacher.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Sep. 24, 2021 Read More »
Reading Time: 25 minutes5 ways to add a row of book covers to your Wordpress website.
Reading Time: 14 minutesI subscribe to dozens of writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
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Reading Time: 15 minutesWe read the first chapters of the top ten free spec fic books on Amazon. Today’s list includes magical academies, space colonies, witches, and, yup, some sexy shapeshifters.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Sep. 17, 2021 Read More »
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe fall submission cycle for original speculative fiction begins on October 1 and closes at midnight on October 31.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe votes for the annual Dragon Awards are in, and Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary won for best sci-fi novel, and Jim Butcher’s Battle Ground for best fantasy novel.
Reading Time: 17 minutesI subscribe to dozens of writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteIf you’re planning to write a novel during this year’s National Novel Writing Month, you can announce it now.
Reading Time: 14 minutesWe read the first chapters of the top ten free spec fic books on Amazon. Today’s list includes magical academies, space colonies, witches, and, yup, some sexy shapeshifters.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Sep. 10, 2021 Read More »
Reading Time: 7 minutesYou can find a lot of free sci-fi and fantasy short stories on Amazon — but the free promotions go fast. Get these books now.
Reading Time: 17 minutesI show you how to create a free author site that looks like that of the big names in the industry.
Reading Time: 9 minutesI subscribe to dozens of writing advice sites and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
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Reading Time: 5 minutesI’m blogging my next book. Every weekday, I post a new installment. It’s all part of my mission to find a writing process that works for me.
Reading Time: 16 minutesWe read the first chapters of the top ten free spec fic books on Amazon. Today’s list includes a witches, vampires, EMP attacks, aliens, and, of course, plenty of sexy shapeshifters.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Sep. 3, 2021 Read More »
Reading Time: 11 minutesWhether you are planning to follow my tutorial to create a free but expensive-looking author website, or hire a developer to build one for you, you will need to create some content before you get started. Here’s what you’ll need.
Reading Time: 10 minutesI subscribe to dozens of writing advice sites and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
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Reading Time: 4 minutesWe interviewed best-selling sci-fi author Steven Barnes about how to become a successful writer, and he delivered.
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Reading Time: 13 minutesWe read the first chapters of the top ten free spec fic books on Amazon. Today’s list includes a witches, vampires, dystopian futures, and, of course, the usual weekly crop of sexy shapeshifters.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Aug. 27, 2021 Read More »
Reading Time: 10 minutesI subscribe to dozens of writing advice sites and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
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Reading Time: 15 minutesWe read the first chapters of the top ten free spec fic books on Amazon. Today’s list includes an EMP attack, sexy aliens, vampires, a dragon riding school, and a cozy magical mystery.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Aug. 20, 2021 Read More »
Reading Time: 11 minutesI subscribe to dozens of writing advice sites and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
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Reading Time: 15 minutesWe read the first chapters of the top ten free spec fic books on Amazon. Today’s list includes environmental catastophers, time travel, sexy shapeshifters and magic powers galore.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Aug. 13, 2021 Read More »
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuora is a site where random people post questions and random people answer them. Some of those people are sci-fi and fantasy authors.
Reading Time: 3 minutesDragon Con is the first week of September this year in Atlanta but whether or not you plan to attend the massive multimedia convention you can still vote in the Dragon Awards.
Reading Time: 7 minutesI subscribe to dozens of writing advice sites and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
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Reading Time: 16 minutesWe read the first chapters of the top ten free spec fic books on Amazon. Today’s list includes time travel, werewolves, fairies, a retelling of Beauty and the Beast, and a retelling of the Garden of Eden.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Aug. 6, 2021 Read More »
Reading Time: 12 minutesToday’s modern, professionally-designed author websites have three things in common: Wordpress, responsive design, and panel styling.
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Reading Time: 7 minutesI subscribe to dozens of writing advice sites and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
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Reading Time: 15 minutesI’ve read the first chapters of the top ten free spec fic books on Amazon. Today’s list includes an alien invasion, Captain Hook, space smugglers, sexy shape-shifters, sexy aliens, and a political thriller involving a psychic detective.
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Reading Time: 7 minutesWhat do you do if you send out your work for critiques and the overwhelming response is negative?
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe finalists for the 2021 World Fantasy Awards have been announced, including Lifetime Achievement recipients Megan Lindholm and Howard Waldrop.
Reading Time: 7 minutesI subscribe to dozens of writing advice sites and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
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Reading Time: 16 minutesI’ve read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes a post-apocalyptic western, a sexy shape shifter, a sexy alien, and four epic fantasies. Oh, and a demonic insurance agency.
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Reading Time: 4 minutesDeep point of view is a technique that modern writers use to make stories feel more compelling and immediate for the reader. You can use this technique in both first person and third person narration.
Reading Time: 15 minutesHow I, a tech and cybersecurity journalist, backup all my computer systems.
Reading Time: 5 minutesI subscribe to dozens of writing advice sites and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
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