Reading Time: 12 minutesWe read the first chapters of the top ten free spec fic books on Amazon. Today’s list includes time travel, EMP survival, and six books in Will Wight’s best-selling Cradle series.
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Reading Time: 4 minutesThese books will make you realize that immortality is really not so great for some people.
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Reading Time: 20 minutesI played around with a dozen AI-writing tools. They can’t write a coherent story, but they can still be useful depending on your writing goals.
Reading Time: 10 minutesI 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: 12 minutesWe read the first chapters of the top ten free spec fic books on Amazon. Today’s list includes time travel, dragons, goblins, fairies, epic fantasy battles, police detectives and zombies.
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Reading Time: 6 minutesThis is my top six all-time scariest movies list. Watch them if you dare.
Reading Time: 4 minutesEarlier today, actor William Shatner — who played Star Trek’s iconic Captain Kirk on television and in the movies — became the oldest person to ever go to space and helped demonstrate that power of sci-fi to inspire space exploration.
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Reading Time: 5 minutesWe read the top three books on Amazon’s list of best-selling sci-fi books. Today’s list includes a mysterious run-down English cottage, sea pirates, and a dystopian future.
Reading Time: 7 minutesI 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: 15 minutesWe read the first chapters of the top ten free spec fic books on Amazon. Today’s list includes a creepy cult, werewolves, witches, and lots of dragons.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Oct. 8, 2021 Read More »
Reading Time: 9 minutesI 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: 9 minutesI 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 minutesWe 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 minutesHere are four ghost stories that will thrill and chill you as Halloween approaches.
Reading Time: 6 minutesWhat would lead someone to claim that a fantasy role-playing game like Dungeons and Dragons was a recruiting tool for satan?
Reading Time: 10 minutesI 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 minutesWe 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.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Sep. 24, 2021 Read More »
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe 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 minutes5 ways to add a row of book covers to your Wordpress website.
Reading Time: 14 minutesI 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 minutesThese holograms, created with mirrors and jets of air, could be the first steps towards a Star Trek-style holodeck.
Scientists created holograms you can touch – you could soon shake a virtual hand Read More »
Reading Time: 15 minutesWe 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. 17, 2021 Read More »
Reading Time: 5 minutesA must-read article for anyone looking to adopt a new dragon.
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Reading Time: 2 minutesThe fall submission cycle for original speculative fiction begins on October 1 and closes at midnight on October 31.
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe 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: < 1 minuteThe 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 minutesI 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 minutesWould 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 minuteIf you’re planning to write a novel during this year’s National Novel Writing Month, you can announce it now.
Reading Time: 14 minutesWe 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: 7 minutesYou 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 minutesI show you how to create a free author site that looks like that of the big names in the industry.
Reading Time: 9 minutesI 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: 5 minutesI’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 minutesWe 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.
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Reading Time: 11 minutesWhether 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 minutesRehearsing 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: 10 minutesI 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 minutesWe 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 minutesHow Dude are the Jedi? Do the Jedi abide? The short answer is yes, from a certain point of view.
Reading Time: 13 minutesWe 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: 10 minutesI 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 minutesRomero’s professional ingenuity and powerful metaphors can inspire us during the pandemic.
Reading Time: 15 minutesWe 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.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Aug. 20, 2021 Read More »
Reading Time: 4 minutesRobert Stahl has analyzed some favorite horror films to present this list for your consideration.
Reading Time: 11 minutesI 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: 15 minutesWe read the first chapters of the top ten free spec fic books on Amazon. Today’s list includes environmental catastophers, time travel, sexy shapeshifters and magic powers galore.
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Reading Time: 4 minutesQuora is a site where random people post questions and random people answer them. Some of those people are sci-fi and fantasy authors.
Reading Time: 3 minutesDragon Con is the first week of September this year in Atlanta but whether or not you plan to attend the massive multimedia convention you can still vote in the Dragon Awards.
Reading Time: 7 minutesI subscribe to dozens of writing advice sites and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
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