Posts Tagged ‘author’
[Interview] J.S. Collyer on The Orbit series, The Waste, and Character Relationships
J. S. Collyer is Science Fiction writer from Lancaster, UK. Her first novel, Book 1 in the Orbit Series, Zero, an action-packed, character-driven SciFi novel described as ‘Firefly meets James Bond’ was released by Dagda Publishing in 2014 and made it into Northern Soul Magazine’s Best Reads of 2014. The sequel, Haven, was released October 2015 and the third and final instalment, Silence, was…
Read MoreThe Kick-Ass Writer [Book Review]
Chuck Wendig is a septic-dumpster fire I absolutely can’t get enough of. If you’ve spent any time wandering the One Lazy Robot halls, you’ll know by now that I have a bit of a writer crush on the bearded cantaloupe. I’ve followed his career for the better part of five years now, which has been…
Read MoreMonday Motivation #5 (Jim Carrey)
“Your need for acceptance can make you invisible to the world.” Welcome back for another dose of Monday Motivation! We’re gonna kick-start the week with some words from a man known more for being funny than poignant, but there are a couple nuggets in here I think we could all use a reminder on occasion.…
Read MoreThe Fascination Test
Fascination I have a degree in Psychology, and tend to look at the personality tests floating around the internet as nothing more than a scummy film of rancid entertainment. We’ve all seen them trickling down our Facebook news-feed: Which Game of Thrones character are you? Take the personality quiz to find out! Are you an…
Read More6 Tips for Telling a Story That Kills Them with Suspense [Writing Workshop]
You don’t have to be a great writer to tell a great story…but it certainly helps. By great writing here, I’m not talking about your ability to craft elegant sentences, or to convey poignant, other-worldly thoughts. No, I’m talking about what some of the all-time great suspense writers have learned. That is, to tell the…
Read MoreThat time I was on a Canadian radio talk show
Interview with Leslie Roberts of CJAD 800 [box] Listen above to the chat I had with Leslie Roberts about The Power of Decision.[/box] The article I wrote for Medium a couple weeks back (The Power of Decision) caught on in kind of a big way. Thanks in large part to the popularity of that…
Read More[Interview] Michael Patrick Hicks on Mass Hysteria, Finding Writing Time with Kiddos, and Gory Horror!
Michael Patrick Hicks is the author of a number of speculative fiction titles. His debut novel, Convergence, was an Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award 2013 Quarter-Finalist. His most recent work is the horror novel, Mass Hysteria.He has written for the Audiobook Reviewer and Graphic Novel Reporter, in addition to working as a freelance journalist and news photographer.…
Read MoreThe Emperor’s Blades [Book Review]
The Emperor’s Blades Brian Staveley splashed down into the cold, dark sea of epic fantasy back in 2014 with his debut novel, The Emporer’s Blades. My girlfriend at the time consumed it in about 13 microseconds and then proceeded to tell me, for roughly the next year and a half how I should most definitely…
Read More4 Cornerstones of the Professional Mindset
I’ve lived a life defined by fleeting passions. Or phases as one of my best friends recently put it. There was the chess, and martial arts, and long distance running, and snowboarding, and writing, and Starcraft, and poker, and rock climbing, and writing, and… Activities that I became absolutely obsessed with, pouring immense quantities of…
Read MoreMonday Motivation #4 (Invest in Yourself)
Here, bite down on this. It’s time for your weekly jolt of motivation. This week we’re talking about the single most important thing you can invest your time, money, and energy into: Yourself. Forget fancy new gadgets designed to make you more productive. Forget get rich schemes promising you the secret formula to success. Forget…
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