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Bluewater Productions has announced a partnership with William Shatner to develop four comic titles based on his sci-fi novels.  The books included in the deal are The TekWar Chronicles, Quest for Tomorrow, Man O’ War and a yet unnamed titles Shatner is creating exclusively for Bluewater. “Mr.

RG Sanders, a regular here on Anchored Authors, recently followed up on my post about ownership of your work, when you’re working a day job.In his recent post on his own blog, RG pointed out that it’s not just your day job that might have a claim to the contents of your work.

For years, my friend Kris and I have talked about writing a book. It'll be what's called "creative non-fiction." Think, a news story that reads like a novel. Completely factual, but told in narrative form with lots of those details that newspaper editors usually frown upon.

Recently I started reading an enormous book (700+ pages) that had, among other things, fantastic world building. History… no, it wasn’t just history. It was economic history, military history, artistic history, mythological history, the history of arcana, discrepancies between the histories and difference of opinion based on source.

Recently, my mother found a book at a library sale with very rich writing. It was an older book, hardback, the red of the cloth cover faded and an unexciting title, the spine gently folded and indented with use. Contemporary marketing would sniff. And then my mother pointed out the first page.

Writing about novels and short stories is not easy without drawing a comparison.Which is the better genre? Which is the more lucrative? Which is the easier one to write?I was talking to an editor friend of mine today, and she said: "Well, they are different genres which require entirely different skills.

Liquid Story Binder XE Features: Multi-Window Display, Spell Checking, Thesaurus, Reference Notes, Timelines, Story Boards, Plot Outlines, Dossiers, Audio Recorder, Image Gallery, Reader, Manuscript Formatting, Time and Word Count Tracking, Chapter and Book Backups, Paragraph and Punctuation Cleaning,

The final cover art for ‘Blue Crystal’ is done (here’s a small version– the title font is temporary filler). The full images are being sent to me by mail. Thoughts?

Easy to say. Much, much harder to pull off in writing. Why? Because realistically, there’s only so much that can be done to a character before they break. The more realistic the story, the more the reader identifies with the protagonist.

In a reprint from her book The Heart and Craft of Lifestory Writing, Sharon Lippincott (who blogs at The Heart and Craft of Lifestory Writing) ponders whether there’s any difference among the terms autobiography, memoir, and lifestory.