I had the privilege to talk to David Laderoute. David is a Geologist, retired Lieutenant Colonel from the Canadian Army Reserves, entrepreneur and a writer. He has several short stories in print in various small press publications and has written extensively for role-playing games. He is active on Wattpad and his debut novel, Out of Time was released by Five Rivers Publishing in December of 2013. We had a great conversation that I think you will get a lot out of. I’ve also been working my way through first revisions of Mik Murdoch: The Power Within for my editor for almost two months now. I won’t deny that I find revisions to be somewhat grueling. You need to consider what […]
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Phoenix Rising: A Steampunk Symphony
I have had the good fortune to read and enjoy the work of Tee Morris and Philippa Ballantine for several years. I like the writing styles of both but they are very different. When I heard that they were collaborating on a book, and a steampunk one at that, I was cautiously optimistic. Not because I didn’t think they could pull it off, but because I had no idea what the meshing of their two voices would be like. In other words, would the result be a symphony or a cacophony? I am delighted to say that the book, “Phoenix Rising: A Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences Novel” is a symphony of the highest order. The characters are rich and the […]
Read moreSome Interesting links – January 29, 2011
I have the great privilege of following a lot of very creative, smart people on Twitter. Those people often have very good advice and blog posts on a regular basis and it (finally) occurred to me that I should be sharing their wisdom. So, I will be putting a post out every week of the things I’ve seen that I think are useful. Keep in mind, these are simply some of the things I’ve seen over the past few days. I’m sure there are plenty of things I’ve missed. Let me know if I should keep this up. HOW TO SUB QUERIES & FULL MS IN THE DIGITAL AGE (Jill Corcoran – http://jillcorcoran.blogspot.com) http://jillcorcoran.blogspot.com/2011/01/how-to-sub-queries-full-ms-in-digital.html What is Steampunk? (Ministry of Peculiar […]
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