There are lot's of ways to get an ISBN number for self-published books or e-books, but I chose to go all the way and become a Canadian publisher.
Rebecca Senese and I shared a strange place in the history of Storyteller Magazine before we even met.
The trouble with this is that one of them doesn't have a compelling enough reason to walk into Afghanistan.
I like writing because it's a solitary task. I'm the complete dictator of an entire world when I sit in front of my keyboard. I decide who lives and who dies, who get's laid and who joins the priesthood.
I've turned into one of those bloggers. You know the kind: they start up, blog excitedly every day for a few weeks, then slip to twice a week, once a week, and stop all together. I guess they thought a massive following would be instantaneous, or was deserved.
I chose physics as my major in university because it was my best subject in high school thanks to an excellent teacher, it seemed like an interesting field of study and I wanted to be a science fiction author and I thought it would help.
Writers are human beings, so unfortunately when three or more are gathered together they will break into at least two factions. I know this because I belonged to a writers group for a few years.
Life is full of surprises, like discovering that someone you were communicating with was having a totally different conversation.
My novel is about redemption, about accepting fate and even a little romance, but mostly it's about war.
One of Fogel's main complaints, and the subject of her guest post yesterday, is that I don't have a clear picture in my own head of my characters.