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GFTW contributor Moses Siregar III’s novella The Black God’s War is currently available to download for free for Kindle. In celebration of the free download, Moses is also holding a contest to win a Kindle 3, B&W Nook or $100 gift card plus a separate contest to give $100 to a charity of your choice, just …
I’ve somehow managed to interview three #1 NYT bestsellers over the last few months for the Adventures In Sci Fi Publishing podcast (where I’m also a co-host): Brandon Sanderson, Sherrilyn Kenyon, and, now, Patrick Rothfuss. Pat talked to me and fellow AISFP guy Dan/D.T. Conklin for about 90 minutes last week. Though it hurt to edit …
If you want to succeed, hang out with unsuccessful people. Er, am I remembering that right? If you want to get somewhere, don’t ask for directions. Wait, that’s not how it goes. If you want to master something, don’t learn from the mistakes of the masters. Hm. That just sounds wrong. Because I don’t subscribe to the above …
There’s a wealth of free video footage from the first Superstars Writing Seminar available on YouTube. Some of the topics on that YouTube channel include publishing myths, agents, self-promotion, increasing writing productivity, economics for writers, novel contracts, collaboration, self-publishing, networking, and many more (including Dan Wells on story structure). I attended the actual seminar in …
