So, this is the last time I’ll ever use my State of the Fandom banner. That makes me sad. In all reality, though, I don’t have a clue what to say. MVF has been a huge part of my life for almost two-and-a-half years. Some of my best friends are my fellow co-owners and some of my biggest supporters are our awesome staff...
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Okay, maybe not so much in review, but a peek at what my November looked like. The first weekend I attended a writing retreat (okay, okay, some girlfriends and I went to a hotel and wrote for forty-eight hours straight). I came home with a work count of over 18,000. Over the last two/next two weeks, I only managed about a thousand...
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In September 2009 a group of friends had an idea. The idea was to create a place where lovers of all kinds of paranormal could gather together and talk freely. On Halloween of that year, MyVampFiction was officially born, launching with forums and a blog. Weeks later, The Dungeon was born, already featuring the fan fiction of...
read moreThis was something I found a while ago that I thought was interesting. (I I swiped this from Rafa Lombardino) Have you ever wondered how the different sub-genres of literature fit with one...
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Is anyone else falling behind with their reading? I honestly read about two books per week. So how am I falling behind? I read too many books, that’s how. I’ve got a dozen or so ongoing series that I read. If you figure they each come out with one new book per year, I should be able to keep up, right? I think...
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So, it’s July. Had you noticed? I surely didn’t; the summer has completely gotten away from me. My house has been the crazy kind of busy – graduation parties, movie premieres, birthdays, you name it, we’ve done it this year. The site is absolutely exploding. We have more staff, more contests, more...
read moreMonth fourteen (or so) of trying to become a published author. I’ve gotten one yes, six nos and have one story waiting for an answer. The anthology I’m in comes out in about three weeks and I’ve submitted over 140,000 words of original fiction so far this year. I’ve got one more story almost ready to...
read more(links contained within this post lead to sites containing material not appropriate for children under 18) So. Publishing. That’s such a buzz word these days. I’ve been actively pursuing being published for almost exactly a year now. If there’s one thing the ‘wide world of writing and publishing books’ teaches...
read moreI was originally going to write this week’s column on the emotional roller coaster of attempting to get published, but as I wrote, I realized there was all kinds of stuff that you don’t know about my journey yet. I have two completed novels. I submitted one to Harlequin – they take unagented submissions – and decided...
read moreMany of you know that I had surgery on Thursday and since I’m a procrastinator, I didn’t write my column ahead of time. For this week’s SotF, I wanted to post a quick update on my journey into publishing so it’s going to be a bit quicker than usual. As of today, I’ve submitted five short stories,...
read moreI know this column is going to be unpopular with a lot of people, but it’s something I think needs to be discussed. I’ve been involved with fan fiction in one fandom or another for about five years now – first in Harry Potter and now Twilight. There’s one thing I’ve noticed about Twilight that stands out from other...
read moreSo, the closing SotF for February. Ahem. Back in January I decided I was going to write out every single thought in a novel – every description of everything my characters walked passed, every thought in their heads, everything they ate. 80,000 words was my goal. By the end of February. That’s now. Then I...
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