Fiction Features Quarterly: Volume II Issue I : Spring '13

The second issue of Fiction Features Quarterly (FFQ) will be releasing this Friday. FFQ Vol 1 Iss 2, features Interviews with: Our featured author Philippa Ballantine and authors Jen McConnel, John Lenahan, Robert Zimmermann, and Rose Caraway.

We also feature an array of articles and videos including:

Fiction Features: Fiction to Film, The New Adult Genre, Anti-heroes, and There's a Nook Gase in My Bookcase.

Writing Tips: Genre's Effect On Your Stories, Show and Tell and when to write them, and Building Better Characters - Testing Your Characters.

Covers that Grab You: Kayla's pick of covers and mine.

Youtube on Writing: The Story Board Episodes 1-7

We also review books. This issue's books reviews include: TROMPE L'OEIL by Caroline Miller, LICHGATES by S.M. Boyce, A SONG OF FIRE AND ICE series by George R.R. Martin, and 50 SHADES OF GREY by E.L. James.

The Story Board Youtube Series by Geek & Sundry with Patrick Rothfuss

Geek and Sundry check out their YouTube page
Patrick Rothfuss Check out his official page
I wanted to show these to anyone who hasn't seen them yet. This is a great video series with some awesome information for writers. And, of course, it features Patrick Rothfuss, one of my all-time favorite authors (and of course his epic beard). I bow down to the bearded one. . .all right. Let's get this show on the road -- onward, to glory!!!

A Chosen Path in the Editing Stage

A CHOSEN PATH, the second installment of the Colliding Empires Short Story Series, is now officially in the editing phase. I hope to get some feedback from my writing group in the next couple of weeks, and I have been sifting through it on my own to find those nasty little grammatical errors that crop up when the first draft is done. I hope to have it published on Amazon in 2 to 3 weeks. I would like to thank Jeffrey Kosh for his covers. He will be providing me with the covers for all ten of the short stories that I plan to publish for this series. If you are an author and are looking for covers that easily fit into your budget, I would suggest giving his web page a quick look. Thanks everyone!

A Bit of Reevaluation

I know it's been a while since my last post, but I figured I might as well throw out some updates. Anyone who has been following along should probably want to know that the first five short stories of the Colliding Empires have been released into a single file called "Volume 1."

Another thing that is probably the most notable is the fact that I haven't written a post since back in December. I've quite noticeably been derailed in both my blogging and my writing. I haven't done much writing at all. I apologize for that, but it is also one of my cycles that I definitely need to change.

The second, and most recent development, is that I've decided to remove myself from Twitter and delete my Facebook page. I felt that most of what was being put out to the internet on those media channels were shameless self-promotion. That isn't really what I wanted those to become. I don't like the idea of hitting people over the head with that message. And, to be qui…

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