It was 2014 and we were meeting our Ace editor, Anne Sowards, at a convention. Over dinner, we pitched her a new idea: a retelling of the Three Musketeers but with dragons. We talked about it for a while, and what emerged from that conversation was that Ace was very interested in a continuation of
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No Content
Why is there no content on the blog? What happened? I’m struggling with our current project. I’m a sad sack of sadness sitting in a sad corner. It’s very frustrating creatively. The smart thing to do would be to publicly pretend that everything is fine and either quietly kill the project or trunk it. If
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Name Deed Poll
Hi everyone, Mod R here. Writing Man has seen your enthusiasm and is very eager to receive his One True Name. We’ve gathered your top suggestions, please vote in the poll below for your favorite. One vote per person- the voting button is at the bottom of the suggestions.
Publishing: Expectations vs Reality
This topic is probably better suited to a professional conference, but it made it on the blog question list, so here we go. A recent article in Bookseller found that “debut authors struggle with the lack of support” and the process of publishing a book “negatively affected” their mental health. Also water is wet, snow
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Self-Publishing: Yet More Questions
If you are wondering why we are revisiting this: some questions were raised in the chat during our last zoom when we discussed the publishing plans for our next project If you self-published a book, is there any case where the publisher will pay for a self-published book and promote it more? There are several
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Happy Tuesday
Magic Claims is one week old today, and I think that was the busiest release I ever remember. We’ve tried ads, we redid our office set up, we opened the store, and now I’m deliriously happy that everything has ran its course and we can get back to writing. Frank Norris once said, “Don’t like
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Quick FAQ About Fraud
Audible didn’t give me a refund for the pirated audio of Small Magics. Audible will refund the credits, but not the credit card purchases. We are working on this from our end. We can’t make any promises, because Audible is a large company, but we are doing our best. This is why it was kind
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The Three Character Types
One question on worldbuilding/creating characters. I have noticed that all the main characters in your universes are SupremelyCompetent® in something. Probably because they are all adults by now, but they either had family to teach them how to flash white, is a werewolf/vampire trained in an academy/their families, is an innkeeper with extensive training, or
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Nature of the Series: Episodic vs Progressive
Today we’re resurrecting an older post by popular demand. We archive most posts after 3-4 years, because the publishing world moves fast and what might be accurate today is completely off the mark tomorrow. Because time is short, we bulk-archive, meaning we hide all of the posts either by date or the category and sometimes
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Quick Update
Hey guys. We are still editing. Hopefully today is the last day of major edits. Most of the betas enjoyed the story, so we think it might be fun to read. We have a little bit of work still left, and I’m going to go and do that. Unfortunately we don’t have anything fun for
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The Beauty of the Audio Performance
This is the current state of our roof. We’ve had a thunderstorm last night and before that we had 2 days of hammering on the roof and the dogs barking in the yard. My apologies in advance if I make less sense than usual. Somehow the image seems appropriate to the subject matter of the
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Demise of Book Depository and Other News
Book Depository We have some bad news. Book Depository is going out of business. We are sorry to let you know that Book Depository will be closing on 26 April 2023.You can still place orders until midday (12pm BST) on 26 April 2023 and we will continue to deliver your purchases and provide support for any order issues
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