Reading Time: 9 minutes I compare the top website hosting providers, and take you through setting up a Wordpress website with my top recommendation, DreamHost.
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Reading Time: 16 minutes We read the first chapters of the top ten free spec fic books on Amazon. Today’s list includes the daughter of Morgan le Fae, alien lovers, post-apocalyptic creepiness, lesbian space pirates, a crime-solving witch, and a crime-solving vampire.
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Reading Time: 4 minutes Here are four ghost stories that will thrill and chill you as Halloween approaches.
Reading Time: 4 minutes Grace is a cult survivor who is called to identify the body of her former cult’s leader and captor.
Reading Time: 6 minutes What would lead someone to claim that a fantasy role-playing game like Dungeons and Dragons was a recruiting tool for satan?
Reading Time: 10 minutes A lonely alien seeks friendship and fulfillment at an Alaska farmers market.
Reading Time: 3 minutes A particle traveling from the beginning of time to the end and back contemplates the balance between hope and fate. Though powerless to control its direction, the particle still has choices.
Reading Time: 10 minutes I subscribe to dozens of writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
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Reading Time: 13 minutes We read the first chapters of the top ten free spec fic books on Amazon. Today’s list includes magical academies, vampires, sexy shapeshifters, and a clone of Jack Reacher.
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Reading Time: 4 minutes The cultural relevance of urban fantasy can be traced back to the time period of its birth — the early nineteenth century — where many were struggling to respond to industrial change and a new economic system.
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Reading Time: 25 minutes 5 ways to add a row of book covers to your Wordpress website.
Reading Time: 14 minutes I subscribe to dozens of writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
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Reading Time: 4 minutes These holograms, created with mirrors and jets of air, could be the first steps towards a Star Trek-style holodeck.
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Reading Time: 15 minutes We read the first chapters of the top ten free spec fic books on Amazon. Today’s list includes magical academies, space colonies, witches, and, yup, some sexy shapeshifters.
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Reading Time: 3 minutes When reaching out to the stars above, the space beyond or the ether, we allocate disproportionate energy into preparing to cast the nets over catching the fish. What do we do with it?
Reading Time: 5 minutes A must-read article for anyone looking to adopt a new dragon.
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Reading Time: 2 minutes The fall submission cycle for original speculative fiction begins on October 1 and closes at midnight on October 31.
Reading Time: 5 minutes The Dark Souls videogame shares many elements with the literature of British artists in the Romantic era such as Lord Byron and others from the early 1800s.
Reading Time: 3 minutes The allure of prospecting a deserted Mars becomes so compelling that nothing else matters. Not even love.
Reading Time: < 1 minute The votes for the annual Dragon Awards are in, and Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary won for best sci-fi novel, and Jim Butcher’s Battle Ground for best fantasy novel.
Reading Time: 17 minutes I subscribe to dozens of writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
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Reading Time: 8 minutes Would you really want to go to magic school? Here are some magic schools you would — or would not — want to attend.
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Reading Time: < 1 minute If you’re planning to write a novel during this year’s National Novel Writing Month, you can announce it now.
Reading Time: 14 minutes We read the first chapters of the top ten free spec fic books on Amazon. Today’s list includes magical academies, space colonies, witches, and, yup, some sexy shapeshifters.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Sep. 10, 2021 Read More »
Reading Time: 10 minutes When Dominic saved his sister from a monster, he didn’t anticipate he would become one too. Now, he might be the most dangerous creature in the woods and if he doesn’t get help, he could hurt the people he loves.
Reading Time: 7 minutes You can find a lot of free sci-fi and fantasy short stories on Amazon — but the free promotions go fast. Get these books now.
Reading Time: 17 minutes I show you how to create a free author site that looks like that of the big names in the industry.
Reading Time: 17 minutes Armed with a magic talisman, Nathan must find the next Buddha – a thirteen-year-old boy in Chicago – before humanity is plunged into extinction.
Reading Time: 16 minutes When Olivia gets bored in class and doodles a stickman on her arm, she has no idea what she’s in for. When it is brought to life by a rival girl, everything changes.
Reading Time: 9 minutes I subscribe to dozens of writing advice sites and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Sep. 5 Read More »
Reading Time: 5 minutes I’m blogging my next book. Every weekday, I post a new installment. It’s all part of my mission to find a writing process that works for me.
Reading Time: 16 minutes We read the first chapters of the top ten free spec fic books on Amazon. Today’s list includes a witches, vampires, EMP attacks, aliens, and, of course, plenty of sexy shapeshifters.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Sep. 3, 2021 Read More »
Reading Time: 11 minutes Whether you are planning to follow my tutorial to create a free but expensive-looking author website, or hire a developer to build one for you, you will need to create some content before you get started. Here’s what you’ll need.
Reading Time: 4 minutes Rehearsing the end of the world through film may have desensitized us, lulling us into a false sense of security that all will end well — and that we are immortal.
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Reading Time: 6 minutes The New Gods were cast out two hundred and sixty-two years ago when humanity enacted the Great Blackout. We had already lost almost everything. Rumors have persisted ever since that they would find a way to return and finish what they started.
Reading Time: 6 minutes A puppet suddenly appears in a woman’s house, and though it is confined to the house only, it follows her like a shadow.
Reading Time: 10 minutes I subscribe to dozens of writing advice sites and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
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Reading Time: 4 minutes We interviewed best-selling sci-fi author Steven Barnes about how to become a successful writer, and he delivered.
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Reading Time: 2 minutes How Dude are the Jedi? Do the Jedi abide? The short answer is yes, from a certain point of view.
Reading Time: 13 minutes We read the first chapters of the top ten free spec fic books on Amazon. Today’s list includes a witches, vampires, dystopian futures, and, of course, the usual weekly crop of sexy shapeshifters.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Aug. 27, 2021 Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutes Will this be the doctor who finally takes on Aki’s limb regeneration? It’s the sixth alien specialist and hope is slowly vanishing from his eyes.
Reading Time: 4 minutes Building a planet used to be harder. There was a real art to it. It required raw talent polished to a diamond’s edge.
Reading Time: 4 minutes Lightyears from home, a miner toils on a moon, gradually being hollowed out. They scrape a life, money to support their family, and something like friendship, from the dirt. But when disaster strikes, they are forced to make a hard decision.
Reading Time: 10 minutes I subscribe to dozens of writing advice sites and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
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Reading Time: 4 minutes Romero’s professional ingenuity and powerful metaphors can inspire us during the pandemic.
Reading Time: 15 minutes We read the first chapters of the top ten free spec fic books on Amazon. Today’s list includes an EMP attack, sexy aliens, vampires, a dragon riding school, and a cozy magical mystery.
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Reading Time: 7 minutes Sometimes it’s the little things that come back to bite us.
Reading Time: 5 minutes If you had the power to take down your opponents on the soccer field simply by touching them, would you?
Reading Time: 14 minutes Alone on a foggy day, among the ruins of an old New England town, a runner has an encounter with the ghost of a small child asking for help.
