So Kate Larking, a fellow Calgarian writer and friend of mine from university, tagged me in the latest writing blog hop on writing processes. My responses was, more or less, "yay, a blog post I don't have to come up with the idea for!" (You can see why these things are successful with writers, as we all try and keep our blogs fresh to drive readers to our books.) These are also important questions to answer, and ones that give insight into the writer answering them, so off we go! 1. ... Read more »
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The Motivations of Villains
This blog post was published on and may be out of date. Visit starshipsmage.com for current information on the Starship's Mage universe. A good villain is an important part of the story. Where is Sherlock Holmes without Moriarty, or Superman without Lex Luthor? In many stories, but especially in genre fiction, without the villain the story doesn’t even start. And yet. What was Sauron’s motivation? Can anyone who hasn’t read the Silmarillion answer that? Why did he set out to conquer ... Read more »
Starship’s Mage: Episode 3 Snippet
This blog post was published on and may be out of date. Visit starshipsmage.com for current information on the Starship's Mage universe. A tiny piece from early on in Starship's Mage: Episode 3, as our intrepid heroes go... shopping ... Read more »
Episode 3 Done!
This blog post was published on and may be out of date. Visit starshipsmage.com for current information on the Starship's Mage universe. Starship's Mage Episode 3 is now complete. It now goes through my edits, and then goes out to my first readers. I gave my cover artist a June 15 deadline for this one, so that's still the target release date after first reader comments and other edits. But its on the horizon now, I promise! XD Glynn ... Read more »
Half Way Point!
This blog post was published on and may be out of date. Visit starshipsmage.com for current information on the Starship's Mage universe. Yesterday, Starship's Mage Episode 3 hit 13,700 words. This is about halfway through the story of Episode 3, which is looking to come in around 25,000 words, so I think I'm safe in saying that Episode 3 is half-way complete and on target for my planned completion date. With revisions and cover art taken into account, I'm eyeballing a June 15, 2014, ... Read more »
Self-publishing and the appeal of KDP Select
Both Episodes of Starship's Mage are available on a wide variety of platforms and retailers. Most of these are through a single distributor, but Google, Amazon, and Kobo are each set up individually. Getting all of these to release at the same time and at the same price is complicated. (For example, one of the retailers was set up for pre-orders of Episode 2, with a release date of March 15. It was March 17th, the following Monday, before the book became available). I've received ... Read more »