I sold my first novel in 1980, which is very convenient for calculating how long I’ve been at this. Back then, I expected my writing to be a side hustle (though that term hadn’t been invented yet). And because I thought my primary income would derive from
Read more →So I just finished the page proofs for How to Run Your Evil Empire, which has me thinking about the differences between writing the first draft, revising it, and polishing it. For those of you who haven’t discovered Elle Cordova yet, this video sums that part up
Read more →It’s an Open Mike week, and Halloween is on the way, so… Talk amongst yourselves. I have more copyedits to finish reviewing.
Read more →The Tiffany Problem has been turning up in online discussions and articles since at least 2018, but writers have been talking about it informally for at least two decades before that, particularly in science fiction and fantasy circles. My first encounter with the term was in the
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