Vella: The Longer and Shorter of It A few months ago, I blogged about my experiences on Amazon’s new(ish) serial platform and interviewed Vella author N. Y. Seely. You can find that article here if you want some background on the platform overall. Vella has been up and running, albeit with some glitches, for about…
According to Wikipedia, “Speculative fiction is a broad category of fiction with elements that do not exist in reality, recorded history, nature, or the present universe.” This brings me the heart of my article: How can authors get their readers to believe in a chimerical world that does not (and likely cannot) exist in reality?…
A mash-up of links and leads for your amusement: It’s never easy to single out one Rocky Mountain Writer podcast guest (because they’re all so great), but I want to take a moment to point out two things about the recent episode with Kelley J. P. Lindberg. (Who is also our blog editor.) First, check…
A popular feature which once appeared in daily newspapers was “Ripley’s Believe It or Not.” In an inked box about six-inches-square, interesting facts from around the globe were illustrated and summarized in succinct captions. The series still appears in a select group of newspapers. An example is shown above. (Copyrighted 2014 by Ripley Entertainment, Inc.)…
Five years ago, after only a few months of living in Colorado, I realized I’d been suffering from Seasonal Affective Disorder, probably since middle school. Growing up in North Dakota, I spent the long, dark, dangerously cold months of winter indoors reading. My asthma was much worse back then, which meant I couldn’t play outside…