by David | May 28, 2012 | Articles, Fictorians
I recently passed a milestone in my professional career as a writer. I collaborated on a novel with Eric Flint, and the manuscript (well, the Word file) was just turned in to the publisher (Baen). Unless the publisher changes the title, it should see print as 1636:...
by David | Apr 4, 2012 | Articles, Fictorians
I don’t know about anyone else, but I’ve found that one of the biggest drawbacks to being a professional writer is that all of the time I spend at the keyboard, or staring at the wall, or walking around in a seeming daze as I work out just how high up a...
by David | Feb 10, 2012 | Articles, Fictorians
Creative people-for example, musicians, actors, artists, and yes, writers-are often considered a bit odd or ‘funny’ by the rest of humanity. That’s okay, because the truth is we are different. The drive to create a work that perhaps has no...
by David | Dec 28, 2011 | Articles, Fictorians
First, a PSA: Grantville Gazette VI, edited by Eric Flint and published by Baen Books, is on the stands now. It contains my story Suite for Four Hands, which is part of a series of stories exploring how musicians of the early 17th century might react if the music of...
by David | Dec 25, 2011 | Articles
4/27/12 Revisions completed and file turned in today to the publisher, Toni Weisskopf at Baen. Barring revision requests from Toni, stick a fork in this one and call it done! 🙂...
by David | Nov 19, 2011 | Articles, Fictorians
The truth is, writing fiction is hard. No, correction, writing good fiction is hard. This is borne out by the fact that the majority of new books in any given year are non-fiction. The last statistics I remember seeing were that three out of every four new books...
