This blog post was published on and may be out of date. Visit starshipsmage.com for current information on the Starship's Mage universe. The whole Starship’s Mage project began sometime in fall of last year. It was, from the beginning, an experiment in two things: structure and self-publishing. Now that I’m sitting at the half-way point, with three of five Episodes published, I figure it’s a good time to look back at why we got here and how it’s succeeding so far. 1) Structure. My ... Read more »
General Writing
Starship’s Mage Episode 3 Released!
Since all of the editing was already done, I didn't see a reason to wait a day to release Starship's Mage: Episode 3 after my cover artist got me the cover. The crew of the Blue Jay saved Ship’s Mage Damien Montgomery from a horrific punishment on the orders of a Hand of the Mage King of Mars. Wanted as criminals, they seek sanctuary in the UnArcana worlds. When the Captain is offered a contract by the secret enemies of the Mage King, Damien must ask himself: how far can a Mage trust ... Read more »
Editing, Revised Editions, and a release date!
This blog post was published on and may be out of date. Visit starshipsmage.com for current information on the Starship's Mage universe. It is a general strike against independently published authors (a crowd I am slowly coming to realize I'm part of) that the editing quality of the e-books we release is not the same as the editing quality of a professional purchased and edited novel. This is one of the reasons e-books from traditionally published authors still cost more than indie books: ... Read more »
Writing Process Blog Hop!
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 »
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This blog post was published on and may be out of date.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 »
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 »