Final panel of the final day. After the Worldbuilding workshop, a panel about editing moved into the room. My Notes – The panel discussed the difference between a structural edit (do the characters and world building hold together?), a line …
WFC Panel: By Any Other Name
Sunday – the final day of WFC. The first panel of the day was “By Any Other Name: What Makes an Author Change Their Byline?” which was confusing as I’d never heard the word “byline” before. Thankfully, the blurb made …
WFC Panel: Not So Secret Agents
Following such an awesome panel on world-building, the agents panel was almost on par. Panellists were: Joshua Bilmes, Meg Davis, Ian Drury, Barry Goldblatt, John Jarrold, Juliet Mushens. My Notes Again, I wrote a lot of notes on this panel, …
WFC Panel: Covers
The second panel I attended at World Fantasy Convention 2013 was “Should You Always Judge a Book by its Cover” at 10am on Friday. Panellists were: Jim Burns, Les Edwards, Bob Eggleton, Jane Frank and John Picacio. My Notes – …
A New Perspective on Publishing Credits
When I created this website, I had done a lot of reading around “publishing credits“, and felt the self-inflicted pressure to get myself published, including writing things that I didn’t really enjoy. Aside from the short pieces I’ve attempted to …
Returning to Old Works
In the next six months, there are eight competitions that I could submit some part of my novels to. However, each novel can only be submitted to one place at a time. For someone who only has two finished drafts …