I’m an unpublished author, and my goal is to change that this year. I’ve “finished” a couple of books that are in different stages of revision. I also have an embarrassing number of works that I’ve started. Some of them are a few chapters, some only a few paragraphs. When my Muse smacks me upside…
This weekend marks my second time attending and participating in COSine, a science fiction convention in Colorado Springs. Last year was also the very first time I ever sat on a panel and could not contain my inner fangirl next to Connie Willis. For context, if you go to the Wikipedia page for the Hugo…
Travis Heerman & Dawn of the Deadly Fang Freelance writer, novelist, editor, Travis Heermann is the author of eight novels, including The Hammer Falls, Death Wind, and The Ronin Trilogy, plus short fiction in Apex Magazine, Cemetery Dance, and others. His freelance work includes contributions to the Firefly Roleplaying Game, Battletech, Legend of Five Rings,…
I’m a blind writer, and that baffles some people. They don’t know how I can write if I can’t see what I’m writing. How do I review my work? Do I have a homunculus to read the editor’s markup? My secret, of course, is technology. The traditionally paper-based writing industry has gone electronic. Concurrently, tech…
As December was getting closer to Christmas I noticed something going on in Romance Writers of America. I watched on Twitter in horror as it got worse and worse as December dwindled into memory. I watched as many people I know resigned from that august organization in dismay. I will not go into detail about…