I haven't even had a chance to post here yet, and the Indiegogo campaign is already half-funded! As an editor, I began to notice that 90% of the advice I gave my better writers was the same advice. I applied that advice to my own writing and found that it led to a noticeable improvement.…
The Art and Craft of Writing a Superversive Writing Class For some time, Superversive Press has been talking about putting out a writing course–a series of videos or podcasts. This class would be based on my Writing Tips, my The Three Things I Tell Everyone–my collected information gathered from my years as a professional…
A Golden Age Of Publishing? by Jonathan Moeller Is this a golden age for publishing? I would answer with this statement: In the past eight years, Amazon and the Kindle (and other ebook platforms) have done more for readers and writers than traditional publishing has in the last thirty. Why? For writers, the biggest…
The Superversive Blog will return next week with a Guest Post. This week, we have a writing article over at Magical Words. Here is the opening: My youngest son has a longstanding problem with nightmares. So he has learned to avoid things that might spark them. He will not walk through a modern bookstore,…
Diamonds, piano, or chicken, which will the space pirates pick? What does your character want? This is one of the number one things aspiring writers leave out of their manuscript. They tend not to tell the reader what the character wants. In particular, the reader needs to know: What is the character’s goal?…
There has been a trend of late that I find quite disturbing. It is the “Let’s Redeem A Villain” movie. Now, keep in mind, I am all about redeeming villains. Were I not, would I have married one of the Evil League of Evil? No. Certainly not. In fact, I love redeeming villains. I have spent…
Today we have a nice treat: a post by Katie Cross, author of the new YA fantasy Miss Mable's School of Girls: Christians Writing About Witches Publishing a book about witches brings a lot of boys to the yard. Just kidding. It brings a lot of Christians to the door. Also kidding. Kind…
Today, I am delighted to announce a new blog for those of us who love to read about writing. This one, Lost In La-La-Land, has the distinction of belonging to a writer who has recently attained the great age of sixteen! It is my hope that you will take a look at her charming first…
Recently, I picked up a YA novel set in a fictional version of the real city Fairy, Texas (how cool is that as a place to live?) and was amused to see that the heroine's name was Laney (which is basically what the L. in L. Jagi Lamplighter stands for. Actually, it stands for Lane,…
Beware, fair reader! Be not slain by the baneful sneer of Reader X, The Condemner of Covers! So who is Reader X? And why does he condemn books with less-than-professional-looking covers? If you would keep yourself—and your book—from so dire a fate, read on! I have a great many friends who are published by small…