More Six-Word Flash Science Fiction Stories
Remember my 6-word flash sci-fi stories? Knowing how much you enjoyed those, here are some fresh ones: On Mondays they turned gravity off. A paper world. Suddenly, it rains. "Can you hear me?" said Google. Cat carrier reviews. Schrödinger's mixed results. My rigor...
Free story: Simulation Over
Simulation Over is one of the stories in The Power of Six, a collection of six plus one science fiction short stories, available on Amazon. You can read it below for free. Enjoy! Simulation Over I stole a panicked look behind me, then bolted towards the corridor where...
4 Tips on Writing a Great Novel
It’s Sunday and it’s raining –again-, so it’s a good opportunity to write. I know what you are thinking: it rains A LOT in Athens –it must be the third or fourth Sunday that I mention it has been raining. Amazingly enough, it seems that the weather is choosing very...
Style in Writing
The inspiration for the post came to me when reading a post on the excellent Reddest Pen, called Show AND Tell. The author, Tom Mock, stood up in defense of telling; a form of expression that has become more uncool than a toothless vampire. With a limb. And a speech...
The 10 Social Media Commandments for Authors
Anne R. Allen has published a great list with The 10 Commandments of Social Media Etiquette for Writers on her blog. Here's a brief summary: If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it. Not enough? Alright then, here are her ten tips for online...
Who reads our books?
I found on the Passive Voice a reference to the latest Harris Poll concerning Americans' reading habits. The upshot was that Americans who read more electronically, read more, period. There is, however, a wealth of useful information to be gleamed from the report....
The Necklace of Goddess Athena Book Blast
I read The Necklace of Goddess Athena a few months ago, and was impressed by the elegance of the writing and the sweet, nostalgic feel of the book. It's no coincidence that Effrosyni's next book, The Lady of the Pier, is currently an ABNA quarter-finalist. It is...
Story-changing characters
What happens when you have your story all lined up, then a new character appears in your head and forces you to change not just the plot, but the whole genre of your book? This is the question author Richard Brawer faced, who found himself writing a romantic suspense...
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5 Things to Do Before Posting your Blog Post and other thoughts
When I entered the social media world, I was pretty much clueless, just like everybody else, I guess. Anyone who knows the difference between a Facebook page and profile and all those tiny but oh-so-perceptible differences between hashtags, @ signs and .@ signs on...
An Element of Time, by Bebe Knight
What is An Element of Time? "A vampire and a slayer walk into a bar... Sounds like the beginning of a bad joke, but for Veronica and Mackenzie, it's the beginning of the rest of their lives... " The world has seen its fair share of evil, but Veronica Chase had no...