Category: On Writing
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Get set up for your run
As of this week, I’ve begun my run through the query trenches with my latest novel, The Kingdom of Nod. I don’t know who first coined the term Query Trench, but it feels right. No one is an expert in querying. There are those who were successful, writers who have been signed, and those who…
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The Realists of a Larger Reality
Is there a science fiction author more akin to literature than Ursula K. Le Guin? I can’t think of any. There are others that may rise to her level. Octavia E. Butler, certainly. One day, I think N.K. Jemisin will have that luster. I struggle to think of a male writer with the same claim…
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Vonnegut on Writing Short Stories
There was a time when I was a wee lad and Kurt Vonnegut was not particularly famous, when you could make a decent living selling short stories to magazines. There were lots of magazines and lots of readers. There was no internet and people doomscrolled their newspaper in one sitting at breakfast. There were only…