4 Questions to Help Identify Where Your Story Should Begin

It can be challenging to find the right place to begin your story. Too early and you risk losing your audience because there isn’t enough going on. Too late and your audience is left scratching their heads. So, how do you find the right place to start your story? There are several questions you can ask yourself to pinpoint where and how to start. Remember, if you don’t know all the answers, that’s okay. It just means you might have some homework to do first. “What is my story really about?” For example, you decide you want to write a story about elves stealing babies and replacing them with changelings. You should probably start your story near or at a […]

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Review: In Ashes Born by Nathan Lowell

Let me begin by telling you what In Ashes Born is not. It is not high adventure in space. It is not filled with battles, semi-clad heroes and heroines and it is not a mile-a-minute adventure. It is also not a predictive, this is the future of humanity, sort of book. If any of those are things you demand in your space-born science fiction you should probably take a pass on this book. Instead, it is a transitional book. It brings Mr. Lowell’s original Solar Clipper Share series into a brand new Solar Clipper Seekers series. It is the story that needed to be told to bring closure to one chapter of Ishmael Wang’s life and a new beginning in […]

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The Tank is Empty

I always try to be upbeat but as the year approaches its end, I find myself out-of-gas. Not my car but my ability to stay creative and going at full speed. It has been a great year; Dimensional Abscesses, Scouts of the Apocalypse and Jack Kane and the Statue of Liberty were all released not to mention the start of Evil Alter Ego Press. I can complain. But all those projects (as well as our first new novel, The Fountain by Suzy Vadori) and the preparation for and travel to Japan for the 2015 World Scout Jamboree have left me feeling pretty wrung out. That’s okay. A few days rest and recuperation will do wonders. I have a ten-day break […]

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