I plan on removing Technomancer from my Charlie Foxtrot pen name. As part of this effort, I’m updating the cover for the ebook and paperback as well. If you’re interested in lending a hand, help me choose a new cover. No registration, tracking, or shady stuff happening, just a simple poll. You’ll also be “inContinue reading “Help Me Choose a New Cover”
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Oxford Comma vs. No Oxford Comma: What Writers Should Know
Which is the best for comma usage in fiction? To be, or not to be? As I’ve been revising and editing “A New Past: Book One” to make a non-explicit version, I’ve run into an inconsistency in my editing tools. In the review tools built into Ulysses, where my definitive content lives, Oxford commas are used. This suggestsContinue reading “Oxford Comma vs. No Oxford Comma: What Writers Should Know”
Secrets, Surveillance, and Survival in Technomancer
An excerpt from Technomancer. “Elara!” Finn called out sharply as he watched one of the feeds from the neighborhood spy-cams he had set up. The three-person team in cheap business suits were too well organized to be random pollsters. He watched as they stopped people on the streets, showed them a paper, and then askedContinue reading “Secrets, Surveillance, and Survival in Technomancer”
How to Edit Explicit Content out of Your Novel
Last week I shared a little about hitting a wall in my writing and some strategies to overcome partial blocks. One of the things I mentioned was performing a re-write on “A New Past”. I did a little analysis to see what would be involved in stripping out the explicit content and came up with about 15%Continue reading “How to Edit Explicit Content out of Your Novel”
Overcoming Writing Blocks: Tips to Reignite Your Muse
I’ve hit a little block on my two works-in-progress. Neither is fully blocked, in so far that I know where I want the story to go, but both are feeling more like work to write at the moment. Since the first 25k words in each came almost effortlessly, it gives a pause when it starts to feelContinue reading “Overcoming Writing Blocks: Tips to Reignite Your Muse”
Technomancer Review: A Unique Sci-Fi Fantasy Adventure
Excerpt from a reviewer: Loved it! 😍 This genre-bending novel is firmly at the intersection of technology and magic, with a solid foot in each world. Technomancer provides a unique and fascinating story line as the author weaves our technologically advanced world with the magically enhanced yet industrially deficient world of Elysia in such aContinue reading “Technomancer Review: A Unique Sci-Fi Fantasy Adventure”
Understanding Character Depth Through the Lens of Who
I recently started to get caught up on Writing Excuses, Season 20 while commenting into work. Specifically, Episode 5: Lens 1 – Who. The discussion introduces “the lens of who” — which means talking about characters. This is a great refresher on making characters that are multi-dimensional by showing them through different “lenses”. A key take-away is the ideaContinue reading “Understanding Character Depth Through the Lens of Who”
Technomancer is available on Kindle
Technomancer is available for Kindle. I am working with some reviewers to get more marketing material and reviewer comments, after which I will enroll it in KDP Select for three months. The KDP Select program is supposed to reach more readers, since Kindle Unlimited readers can read your book without buying the full Kindle edition.Continue reading “Technomancer is available on Kindle”
Balancing Real Life and Fictional Worlds
Sorry for the break in posting. I’ve been busy working to make ends meet with my real job and fallen off the writing bandwagon a little. Now that I’m being productive in the real world, I’m ready to jump back into the fictional worlds in my head. I’ve been toying with two story ideas thatContinue reading “Balancing Real Life and Fictional Worlds”
Marketing Mondays: The Synopsis Conundrum
Yesterday, I shared some of my efforts at creating a marketing synopsis for Technomancer. While the book is not posted for purchase yet, I need the summary for the sales pages on various sights, and also want to have a slug I can share with potential reviewers. A synopsis can be a writer’s nemesis butContinue reading “Marketing Mondays: The Synopsis Conundrum”
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