Brother in The Land begins with teenager Danny taking a break from working in his father’s corner store for a long bike ride into the English countryside. It starts to rain, so he takes shelter in a World War II pillbox.
I had a writing meltdown in April. I was, and still am, frustrated with the lack of output and progress with my fiction writing. Strangely, the meltdown was caused by my non-fiction writing after I submitted an article to Divine
There is a lot of controversy surrounding the Hugo Awards this year. For those of you who don’t know, the Hugos are science fiction awards for best novel, best short story, best movie, etc. Books and movies are nominated for
Novel Writing. In March, I added 5848 words to Branded, a science-fiction, young adult novel, so I improved on February’s 4841 words. I averaged 188 words per day in March compared to 173 words per day for February and 155
Juli Zeh’s The Method is a very believable dystopian science-fiction thriller. It is a different take on themes explored in novels like 1984 and Brave New World. The novel is set in a future Germany, not too different from the
I’ve been doing a bit of research into ebook piracy, and I have concluded that any author who is worried about their book being pirated should worry about something they can actually do something about. Almost every published ebook seems
No Limit is a book about hip young things doing hip things and wanting the world to know about their hipness via social media. The novella is set in Auckland, New Zealand, in December 2012, which is important because the
In an attempt to motivate myself, I decided at the start of this year to write a monthly blog post about my writing efforts for the previous month. Novel Writing. I am still writing Branded, a science fiction young adult novel.
How did Zoo City win the 2011 Arthur C. Clarke Award? Not that it’s a bad book; it is a enjoyable, imaginative, and well-written novel. The problem is science does not drive its plot, so it is not science fiction.
A request on my blog’s Facebook page asked if I could follow up my last post with lists of the bestselling fiction books of 2014. As I write adult and young adult fiction, I decided to include both in the
The 2014 top ten bestseller lists for books in Australia, the UK, and the US point to a book-buying world dominated by movies, games, children and teenagers. Top ten bestsellers in Australia. The 52-Storey Treehouse by Andy Griffiths and Terry
In an attempt to motivate myself, I have decided to write a monthly blog post about my writing efforts for the previous month. Novel Writing. I am currently writing a young adult novel, Branded. I wrote the first chapter as
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