Pen’s Tip at Sword’s Edge

So, listening to music again on the way to work. I started out with a great episode from the BBC’s Thinking Allowed about the concept of the working class, income disparities and self-identification. It was very, very good and very interesting. I’m going to go back to it. But I realized about two minutes into [...]

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Having done some reading on the Tudor period in England, I naturally cooked up a novel using a lot of the premises. The idea is to set it in a fictional setting based on Tudor England (Jutemark, perhaps?) and focuses on three individuals, let’s call them the Spymaster, the Mayor, and the Outlaw.  Each of [...]

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I’ve spouted off before about my mercenary philosophy for writing. I know that there are those out there on both sides of that arguement. That doesn’t matter, because this is my house, so I win.
BOO-YAH!
Here’s something you need to consider when you are looking to submit to that anthology that only offers $10 and a [...]

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So, I finally get time to write some blog posts, then I forget to post them. That happens when one is writing a post at 7 Am and posting it at 9 PM.
In any case, on my walk in to work today, I switched from listening to podcasts to listening to tunage. Sometimes the desire [...]

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It’s late, but this little thing was bouncing around in my head, so I got it down on virtual paper. Nothing else to do with it but throw it out there. Inspired by not much at all.
I tried to get out of the life, get free of it. That’s what brought me to Everthorn. I [...]

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I just wrote a bit of an article about the demise of Jim Baen’s Universe. You can find it over at Sword’s Edge.
Let me just say here, for those spec fic fans out there, you better start supporting short fiction markets, because that is an important place where new writers can polish their craft. Sure, [...]

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I haven’t posted any further stories yet, and I doubt I will. The ones that are left, the ones that are without a home right now, could be ripe for inclusion in anthologies, should the right one come along. And I am mercenary enough to hold out for the buckage.
If you are interested in reading [...]

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I’m back with more advice about publishing a novel that you can comfortably ignore, given that I have never published a novel.
My first piece of advice was “perfect your craft.”
My second piece of advice is finish writing novels.
And some of you are thinking: “duh, of course!” Two things about that. 1) That is plural. Novels. [...]

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I promised a while back to make a post about my thoughts on publishing a novel. it was in response to Brad’s comment/question: “. . . what advice would you give for someone who wants to write novels?”
I’m not a published novelist, so this is an amateur’s take on the situation based on this amateur’s [...]

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Got a bit of writing up at the SEP website. It’s part of a serialized story set in Mundus Novit. Go check out chapter one, then you can head over to this thread on the Accidental Survivors board for a sneak peek at chapter two.

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