A little while ago, I put up a post titled ‘I’d like to blog for you’. The concept was simple – I’d write a blog post for your blog, based on a subject or topic of your choosing, and vice versa.
The first person to take me up on this was Brian over at The New [...]
I thought I would take a moment to summarize all the advice out there on the web and in books and magazines for us unpublished authors. Hopefully you will find this as insightful and illuminating as I have.
Here it is:
Write.
Thanks for stopping by!
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(Edit: Mister Modesitt sent me an email asking that I clarify a couple things, which I am more than happy to do – as I said, I was relying on my own memory here. So I have gone through and -fixed- errors, using strikethrough in red so you can see where I messed up and [...]
I remember the first time I saw the word ‘apoplectic’ and wondering, what in the name of heaven is that?! What does it mean? Where did it come from?!
I was intrigued.
I saw it again, years later, in the Robert Jordan ‘Wheel of Time’ books. A lot. For such an uncommon word [...]
I want to start his post by saying that I have NOT entered any of these contests. Not yet, anyway. But since I was doing some research, I decided that it would be nice of me to share it with all of you.
Having said that, I would like to offer a caveat from sfwa.org on [...]
© 2009, Patrick Hester. All Rights Reserved
Tales from The New Universe: SuperHero
The thing about being a superhero is that everyone expects you to save the day all the time, to be on your toes no matter what, to have all the answers.
No one warned me before all of this started that it would be like [...]
I decided an update was in order on my various writing projects. Woot, right? I know you were really curious what’s been going on so here it is.
#1 Sam Kane
Synopsis: Sam Kane is a detective with the Denver PD – it’s her first week as a Detective and she’s already screwed up. Her partner’s in [...]
In tenth grade, college prep English, we did a lot of creative writing. We also did a lot of reading. None of the reading was genre stuff – no fantasy or scifi. It was mostly ‘literature’, which is fine, but I’ve always thought that there are some fantastic pieces out there in the genre world [...]
© 2009, Patrick Hester. All Rights Reserved
Tales from The New Universe: Solar City
“Welcome to Solar City” says the card in large, bright blue letters. It depicts your classic suburban dream complete with a row of large houses each with neatly trimmed yards and white picket fences all lined up nice and proper the way [...]
Episode #5: All Things from My Brain
In the fifth episode of the All Things From My Brain podcast, I talk about the Palm Pre losing it’s iTunes sync functionality, how India plans to issue biometric ID cards to its 1.2 BILLION citizens, how the Kindle and Amazon are once again in the news with BAD [...]