by Autumn | Oct 7, 2016 | News and Events, Tips, Writing Promotion
Are you going to Virtual Fantasy Con?!? Ok, you might need a tad more information than that. 🙂 Virtual Fantasy Con is a live multi-day event on Facebook running from Oct 9 to the 16th. It is going to be BIG! Why? Because there are video panel discussions, prizes,...
by Autumn | Apr 24, 2015 | Writing
Many authors write in multiple genres – often using pen names and different websites (which will be a topic on a future post!). But there is more to switching between books of different genres than keeping the characters and storylines straight. Genres contain...
by Autumn | Jan 9, 2015 | Friends of my Enemy, Writing
When I started this series of ‘What’s in a Genre’ I expected to be researching definitions to clarify what a reader expected when they chose a category. I didn’t realize how many genres would have such fuzzy boundaries! Military fiction is another of those. What I...
by Autumn | Dec 19, 2014 | Writing
I wrote in a previous post that I was surprised to find After the War, the first book of my newest trilogy contained more romance elements than sci fi. But would I call the novel a dystopian romance? Should that mishmash of genres even should exist?! To answer that...
by Autumn | Nov 14, 2014 | Friends of my Enemy, Tips, Writing
I almost titled this post The Importance of Plotting, but really it is simpler than that. And I don’t want to turn off pantsers! 😉 I mentioned on my Facebook page last week that I’d finished the first read through of After the War, book 1 of my dystopian series...