Creative Commons licence It should be. It should be the easiest thing in the world to write about. But it’s not. Last month in the New Republic magazine, commercially published author Sam Lipsyte wrote about the challenges he faces when confronting a sex scene in a novel: We might have the tendency to quickly cover […]
One Shade of Red is nearly ready for the world, thanks to the awe-inspiring assistance of three great people: first, my wife, Roxanne Bury, who’s doing a careful, word-by-word edit; next, fellow author and iAi member Gary Henry (@LiteraryGary), who has done a story edit; and David Cassidy (@DavidCCassidy), who has designed a knock-out cover.I’ll […]
Fifty Shades of the worst book I ever read by Evan Zenobia Evan Zenobia is editor of the Eclipse News blog and a close friend. He has graciously given Written Words permission to reprint this independent review of the bestselling Fifty Shades of Grey. A meaningless setting. A cast of thoroughly unbelievable, unrelatable, one-dimensional characters. […]
By Tania Saiz [CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons An in-progress view of collaborative publishing Now that I’ve finished my first draft of my current novel, I’ve decided to share with you blog readers a real-time look as this work progresses through collaborative publishing.Regular readers will know that my current work-in-progress is One Shade […]
Picture courtesy Synthesis by shafeen charania This week’s Six Sunday sample is another from my work-in-progress (almost done!), One Shade of Red. It’s a parody of Fifty Shades — but I know you figured that out. This selection is a little different from the excerpts I’ve posted over the past few weeks. Here, the protagonist, Damian, is doing […]