• Challenge,  workshops

    Writing Science Fiction

    The Most Difficult Genre to Write… Even much harder than thrillers. Say you have this great story set on a space station. People just living and working and having families and everything. And if you could set the story in a mall here and now, or an airport here and now, then it is not science fiction just because you called something a space station. What element makes it science fiction? Gravity issues, atmosphere leaks, aliens with six arms, and so on and so on. If the story could be set here and now, not science fiction. And you set the story 100 years in the future. Okay, so here…

  • Challenge,  workshops

    DOWN IN THE DETAILS Science Fiction

    Eight Classes Are There and Anthology Open!! Yes, finally, all eight Down in the Details science fiction classes are there and available. And yes, the anthology for them is now open. WMG Teachable Lifetime Everything Subscribers you have the code to the bundle of all eight in the first email I sent you. And yes, I hope to finish the fantasy classes and the mystery classes over the next month or so and get those open and out to backers on some Kickstarters a while ago. Each class is $150 and the bundle is $900. But remember right now there is a half-price sale. See the information below the cover…

  • Challenge,  Recommended Reading

    Visions of the Future

    Only 20 Hours Left… This is a fantastic deal, folks. And it is about to expire. Get ten fantastic science fiction novels and collections, including my novel Dust and Kisses, a prequel to my Seeders Universe series. And you can get Kris’s novel Consequences, a Retrieval Artist novel. You can find all ten at Storybundle.com until about 10 pm West Coast time. And don’t forget to toss in an extra buck or two for Ablegamers.com, one of the great organizations of all time.

  • On Writing,  publishing,  workshops

    Science Fiction Study Along Craft Workshop

    A Reminder… I will be starting up the email group tomorrow for those attending the Science Fiction Craft Workshop here in Las Vegas in January.  The workshop is taught by Hugo Award winning editor and writer, Kristine Kathryn Rusch. But if you can’t make it to Las Vegas, the best way to take the class is on Teachable with the Science Fiction Study Along Craft Workshop. The workshop is January 24th – 28th, but the reason this is starting up so early is that there is a reading list and Kris wants everyone to have enough time to read everything she assigns. Both those coming to Las Vegas and those…