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First Time Author Mistakes
by Crymsyn Hart It’s been over ten years since I’ve first started to seriously look to get involved with the publishing world. I had graduated college with BFA in writing, had a complete novel that had...
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Natural Assumptions (Time Traveling Vampires and Comics?)
By J. F. Lewis In short, don’t forget to make them when you are world building or plotting. That’s it. You can go home. Lesson learned. No? Okay. For example: (spoilers for those of you following...
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Life Happens and ya gotta roll with it…
By J. f. Lewis Almost everyone has heard the song “Don’t Stop Believe’n”. And there are many days that is what writing is all about. If you’re a Pantser, like me, you believe that all the little things...
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Vampires and Chocolate!
FWoC started as a blog post about how the vampires in my Void City series can’t eat and how that has driven them to participate in a sort of voyeuristic eating where they make humans dine on what...
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The Transliterated, Translated, and Transatlantic Vampire
BY J. F. Lewis You can’t use the F-word in Italian. Not the way we do it in American English. In English, we can have our characters drop the F bomb in all sorts of creative ways. They can...
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Antagonist or Protagonist
By J. F. Lewis In most good stories there are protagonists and antagonists (often but not always, a main one of each), but in some of my favorite tales, it’s hard to say whether or not the characters...
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A Resurgence of Baddassery
By J. F. Lewis It is official, my dysfunctional, murderous, and sometimes noble (but not too noble) vampires are of their way back to a bookshelf or ereader near you. In this volume, Eric has a plan...
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Calling All Fangs
By J. F. Lewis If you have been paying even a little bit of attention to my various feeds, you know that BURNED: A VOID CITY NOVEL is out today. And today or at least this week is when I need you to...
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After the Con
by Crymsyn Hart This past weekend I attended ConCarolina’s with my fellow bloggers, Tina McSwain, Gain Z. Martin, and J.F. Lewis. It was nice to see them and say hello since that doesn’t happen much....
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The Magic of Magic-making
By J. F. Lewis One of the best parts about working in a world of one's own creation is the ability to populate it with cool new powers and abilities. Not just monsters and magic, but the rules...
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The Other End of the Situation–A #HoldOnToTheLight guest post by Stuart Jaffe
When I was first asked to write this blog post for #HoldOntoTheLight, I agreed without hesitation. Then I tried to write this thing. But it hurt, so I put it away. I tried again, sitting in my office,...
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In the Dark Hours of the Night–a #HoldOnToTheLight guest post by Charles E....
Hold On To The Light is probably advice that all of us c/should live by. But for those whose lives have been harrowed by one or more mental/emotional/behavioral challenges, this phrase achieves the...
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