You should know by now that I’m involved with several podcasts. Over at the Functional Nerds, I’m a co-host/producer, which means that I’m a part of every show, and I edit / produce every show. Over at SF Signal, I am the host for the panel episodes, the main interviewer, and I put the...
/begin random thoughts Staring at a sunbeam makes you realize – there’s a lot of crap floating around in the air… * * * The oil change light in your car is just a recommendation sort of thing, right? I mean, if you track it by mileage, you can totally ignore that light…? *...
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...
I thought I would take a moment to summarize all the advice out there on the web and in books and magazines for us unpublished authors.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! ~P Make me famous:
(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...
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...
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...
© 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...
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...
About Patrick:
Patrick Hester is an author, blogger and podcasting dude who lives in Colorado with two cats, Dakota and Shadow, who make sure he gets little sleep and always remembers who is really in charge. He writes science fiction and fantasy (mostly)...[click to read more]
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