Two Tips for finishing a novel

The book foxes have been foxing my book!  And I’m very happy about it 🙂  In fact I’ve got a lovely review over here Vulpes Libris from Anne Brook, author of the haunting ‘A Dangerous Man’ and ‘Painting from Life’.  I really love her stuff, so when she said she was reading False Colors, I…

A mixed bag of reviews for False Colors: A dramatic, sometimes dark, and always engrossing story A review by Junkfood_Monkey Beyond the normal romance plot twists, is the convincing story of two men in turmoil A review by Alan Chin Thanks so much to both reviewers!  I feel very honoured 🙂

Why is writing the first draft hard? Because it’s like trying to spin mist.  You know the perfect book is in here somewhere.  You sometimes have glimpses of it, but it’s like a Platonic Ideal – you can never achieve it in real life.  Plus, the book you want to write is nebulous.  Every sentence,…

For this brilliant review of Captain’s Surrender, made all the better by the fact that she didn’t think she liked Age of Sail stories 🙂 I wish I could tell you how much I loved this book, how it transported me, how profoundly it moved me. If this blog did its job, I would be…

Two comic gems I found on my LJ friends’ list: Passed along from dubious_virtue, a link to Jimhines reading the slush pile in the style of Dr.Seuss Here’s a tale from D & D! I do not want your D & D. I do not like your elf PC. I can not stand your purple…