Kindle Edition Editors
Can I have a word with you people who take published books and turn them into Kindle books? Let’s talk about the Kindle version of The Stone of Tears by Terry G...
Author: everett
My Outline Is Letting Me Down
For my current WIP, I spent what I considered to be a fairly lengthy amount of time writing a cohesive outline of the events that would take place in the novel....
Critiquing
I’ve signed up for a couple of online writing critique groups. I’m not ready to submit anything yet, but I thought it would be a good thing to try. It’s a lot m...
On The Fifth Sorceress
I half-heartedly read the first five chapters of The Fifth Sorceress by Robert Newcomb (2002), knowing it had received generally unfavorable reviews from fans o...
On Kushiel’s Dart
In my continuing look at other modern fantasy books and authors, I landed on Kushiel’s Dart by Jacqueline Carey (2002). It consistently ranks high in top ...
Wizard’s First Rule, Part Two
Well, I don’t know how Goodkind did it (which makes it a good topic for study, I guess), but somehow Wizard’s First Rule crawled up under my skin an...
On Wizard’s First Rule
In catching up on the fantasy genre, I wanted to read popular books that were considered good, and popular books that were considered bad. So now I’m read...
On The First Book of Swords
I read most of The First Book of Swords by Fred Saberhagen. I’m not sure, but I think I was supposed to start with Empire of the East. But I didn’t ...
Rolf Sighting
I find it amusing and heartening for some reason to see “famous” authors using a character name that I’ve thought up for one of my novels. I s...
There Is Too Much To Read
It is said that new authors should read recently released books in their genre to get an idea of what publishers are looking for. It is also said that new autho...