Hang on, breaking out the ShamWow voice… “Savvy” readers check for a book’s publisher and if they don’t see a big house, they turn up their nose. Indie books are the new vanity press. If those authors could write, they’d have an… Read More ›
Fantasy
Writing Stuff You Don’t Even Know You Want Yet
Read on and learn how to get a FREE copy of my upcoming novelette, Empty Quiver. This past weekend I hosted Write Club over at my house. (Yep, I’m about to break the first rule.) Essentially what happens is a few… Read More ›
Release Schedule for 2015
Today, I’ve been re-evaluating my overall strategies for getting fiction into your face. You might notice a few minor changes here and there and there may be some major changes in the works for my site, so stay tuned. For… Read More ›
Of Superheroes, Zombies, and Bugmen
News, news, and more news! Yesterday I finished polishing up the Crimson Son anthology for my editor to again polish and make all shiny. I know, I already told you that – even gave you a sneak peek. I’m excited… Read More ›
Misty Morning Meditations
I headed out into the woods this week and took along a copy of The Fellowship of the Ring . The weather was cool, the Texas sun mostly hidden, and the bugs not yet out of their winter slumber. Spring and Fall… Read More ›
Dealing with Rejection through Physical Violence
How many writers can say they got the chance to enter a cage match with an editor? An editor that has rejected one of your precious stories in the past? An open invitation to kick and pummel them mercilessly before a crowd… Read More ›
What’s that You Say? New Releases?
At World Fantasy Con last year I was scheduled for a 10:30 PM reading. I got to compete with free booze in the Tor party suite and the not-free but very active scene in the hotel bar. So I started… Read More ›
No Shade, Plenty of Darkness
Finally! Things can get back to normal around here. Me, being geeky. You, ROTFL at my amazing wit. Admiring my incredible insight into literature and geekdom and whatever else I have bamboozled you into believing I am an expert of…. Read More ›
A Review of Lev Grossman’s The Magician’s Land
I’ve been reading a lot lately. Quite a bit of what I read is critique level reading. First or second draft type of things. It’s a hazard of being involved in a writer’s community and accepting their invaluable advice. A Faustian… Read More ›
There’s an App for THAT?!
I was thinking of Arthur C. Clarkes’ Third Law, that any significantly advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. I’m tossing around ideas for a fantasy novel and as my roots of fantasy are not only in novels but RPGs, I… Read More ›
RUSS LINTON 