by Penny Freeman | Aug 8, 2014 | Events, Sound-off Saturday
BY PENNY FREEMAN We’ve just returned from Salt City Steamfest, where the X-team provided two panels. Our authors, Scott E. Tarbet, Alyson Grauer, Candace J. Thomas, Sarah Hunter Hyatt, and Jay Barnson, presented “Writing Steampunk: Tropes and Tips”...
by Penny Freeman | Jul 24, 2014 | Editor's Notes, Writing
BY JESSICA SHEN How to Choose Good Beta Readers. First, what exactly is a beta reader? A beta reader is typically a non-professional reader who assists you in polishing your manuscript before you submit it for publication. You could consider them your first line of...
by Penny Freeman | Jul 18, 2014 | Editor's Notes
BY MERILYN OBLAD All right friends, it’s time to pull up a chair and listen to some tough love for writers. I’m going to talk about the problem with dismissing mistakes and constructive criticism too easily. Mistakes jar a reader out of a story, whether they’re small...
by Penny Freeman | Jul 11, 2014 | Editor's Notes, Writing
BY MEGAN OLIPHANT Maybe I should have written this blog post BEFORE the Orson Scott Card Literary Boot Camp, because my mind is so full of all the information, it will take several days for it all to gel into something coherent in my mind. So much good information....
by Penny Freeman | Jul 10, 2014 | Editor's Notes
BY KRISTINA HARRIS I’ve been playing the violin for over twenty years. As someone who is comfortable with my instrument, and music in general, I can hear musical pitch pretty well and can tune any violin quite easily using just one note from a piano: the sound of an...
