Title not only give a name to a story, they can inspire the story. Last Friday we had Title Day at #storystarters. Some amazing titles were tweeted. If you need a title, feel free to use one, or simply use them to inspire an entire story. You can view the entire day worth of titles [...]
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Locked Away
The brass lock on the door had fed my imagination for years. As a boy, it had been the curiosity of what lay behind a closed door. As I grew older, it had been the mystery of why I’d never seen anyone open it. Finally, the strange location of the locked door alone had been [...]
During the last week of February, we held the first #StoryStarters Genre Week on Twitter. For those not familiar with #StoryStarters, they are 125 character writing prompts on Twitter to give your muse a kickstart. Over the course of 5 days during Genre Week, there were certain genre themed #StoryStarters posted each day. The 5 [...]
#thrillerchat is a Twitter chat for anyone interested in writing Thrillers, although you don’t have to be a writer to join in. The chat is held on Mondays at 8PM EST, 7PM CST, 6PM MST, & 5PM PST. To join in, simply search for and follow the #thrillerchat hashtag. Debbie Ohi, aka @inkyelbows, has the [...]
EReaders are taking center stage this week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. I forgot to boomark the article, but I read there are approximately twenty-three exhibits for companies revealing new eReaders. The initial reaction of some people may be ‘that is ridiculous’, but mine is ‘this is great’. Why, you ask?
There are [...]
Over the last few days I’ve had first hand experience with both crazy ideas and wonderful tweeple (Twitter talk for people for those not in the know). What an experience it was! It reconfirmed two things for me: That motivation drives you beyond your normal routine and that Twitter is full of awesome people.
Here’s the [...]
Happy 2010!
With the turning of the page from 2009 to 2010 comes a new chapter in the books that are our lives. As always, it’s a time of both reflection and looking forward. Yes, it’s cliche, but it’s true. No other time of year, beside maybe our birthdays, do we put so much emphasis on [...]
Here are a few examples of book covers, story posters and magazine mockups I have done for my own work and a few others.
Many traditional publishers are scared of the growing popularity of e-books. If there was ever any doubt of it, the announcements over the last two days of three major publishers delaying the release of the electronic book versions of at least some of their titles by three weeks to six months after the hard cover [...]
We’ve all been there before—ready to write we sit down at the computer, open up a new document and then it happens. We sit staring at a blank page. I’m sure any of you who have experienced it will agree that it is one of the worst things that can happen to a writer when [...]
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