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...
by David | Aug 19, 2011 | Articles, Fictorians
Actually, every writer with any experience at all will tell you that the question is not whether or not to infodump. The answer to that question is automatically yes. Yes, yes yes. The need to provide mass quantities of data to the reader is almost universal. ...
by David | Jul 6, 2011 | Articles, Fictorians
I am a Christian of a conservative evangelical stripe. (If it matters to you, I lean to the Calvinist end of the Christian theological spectrum.) I am not ashamed of this. I also love to read and write science fiction and fantasy. I am not ashamed of this. This is...
