Happy to say that the rewrite of Mike.Sierra.Echo is complete – woo! My middle-grate scifi novel project is done. Let the balloons drop, champagne fall from the heavens – I’m a professional author and I officially get to say that now. Hooray! Now, naturally I’m happy about this, but I know the first question on everyone’s…
Hi folks – giving you an update on our new scifi community: Fedia.Io. This comes on the heels of three months of frustration as we waited to find out what was going on with Kbin.social. Join me for some notes/backstory: Thirteen months ago – almost to the day – we received word that the Reddit…
Hot Scifi Summer is back – pick out a free short story from Smashwords through the end of the month (July 31)! Here are some of the short stories you can get for free on Smashwords: Call of the Void “I picked up his trail at the edge of a crater. Over my shoulder, three moons…
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Adam Savage comes up with wise words on effective promotion for creative professionals in this video from three weeks ago. His advice begins around 3:06 but the entire 9-minute video is worth watching. Take a look: What I like about Adam’s ‘not being a blowhard’ advice is that isn’t a mantra or Holy Grail…
I want to drill in and talk more about Creative Challenges in a Boring Dystopia – something I started to discuss on Monday. Every individual creator fights an uphill battle when it comes to success. I can’t walk around venting my spleen though. Success will come when people love my work, not because they pity me….
This article illustrates the challenges of being creative in a boring dystopia, but it doesn’t justify despondent defeat. No, if anything, creativity is more important in a bad situation, not less. Our human need to express ourselves through art has been a survival skill all the way back to hunter-gatherer days. “Art is more than…
This just in – a modest proposal as an update to the Inkican Terms of Service. As I’m sure you’re aware, Terms of Service are changing all the time and Inkican doesn’t want to be left behind in this area. As an author, I didn’t think about this before but my books should have a…
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What is cowardice? Would you recognize a coward if you saw one? What’s the difference between a hero and a coward, between cowardice and heroism? Does our modern science fiction unlock our inner heroes or is it enabling our cowardice? I wrestled with those questions over the three-day weekend. Now I’m jotting down some notes…
Here’s something cool for Wednesday – a scifi magazine for free: Starblazer! Starblazer was launched in response to the popularity of science fiction in the 1970s at the cinema and on television. Archive.org – yes, that one – has a digital copy of all their issues and they’re free for us to enjoy. Take a…
Francis Ford Coppola released a ‘first look,’ clip of his original scifi project: Megalopolis. There’s a lot to unpack here, so first let’s watch the clip and then discuss. Take a look: So yeah, more questions than answers. When you watch the clip, you quickly realize it tells you nothing about the movie beyond…
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