Even in a crowded market, we’re not competing with each other. In trying to learn how many authors are self-published, no search I’ve run on Google can give me a number. Between Amazon and other services making self-publishing increasingly easier, it’s safe to presume that there are thousands, if not tens of thousands of self-published,…
Sharing my experience using Generative AI for writing. Does AI scare you? Why wouldn’t it? Lots of fiction over the years has painted AI as the thing that will end humanity (see the Terminator and Matrix movies). Then, it inevitably raises several ethical and moral questions. Can/will AI steal copyrighted material in what’s created? Will…
That depends on multiple factors. What is a hack? Stephen Pressfield, in his brilliant book The War of Art, defines a hack as someone who “condescends to the audience.” Further, the hack chooses to work not so much with what they desire to write as much as what they think they can write for money….
So, what am I working on now? On Friday, September 29, I finished the last page of the last book of my new Savagespace series. After a lot of world-building, layout, plotting, and planning – the final book has been finished. Originally, this was going to be a 6-book series. However, as I worked on…
Hell yes. Art and passion tend to be one and the same. When I was very young – not quite 5 years old – my parents took me to see a movie that changed me forever. That movie was Star Wars. Thanks to A New Hope (which I will forever just call Star Wars), I…
Artists and creatives face unique challenges with being entrepreneurs. I used to think my ability to write rather easily wasn’t all that unique. I thought everyone was able to formulate ideas and translate them to text and put them on a page or screen in the same way that I could. But over the years,…
It’s all about the choices made for them and their use. In the distant past, all art was one-of-a-kind. Even a reproduction of a work – text, art, or both – was a singular production. For thousands of years, books, scrolls, maps, and other art were created solely by hand. This is part of what…
Something different for me and my writing/publishing game, at least. As I’m sure you’re sick of reading by now – I started writing sci-fi when I was 9 years old. Wildfire is a 50-page, illustrated book you will never read. After Wildfire, I started but didn’t finish a few other projects. Then, at age 13,…
No debate, that just sounded funny in my head. What is a beta reader? A beta reader is someone who reads an unpublished work specifically to give feedback to the author. They are expected to comment on any plot issues, pacing, continuity, and other storytelling matters. Along the way, they might catch a few errors…
There’s no right or wrong answer, just lots of options. When I finished my first sci-fi novel – 50 handwritten and illustrated pages – at the age of 9, I tried to get it published. For the creation of a 9-year-old, it wasn’t bad. But neither was it good. As I got older and (I…
