Starlog

  • Write a Story with Me – Part 10 – Going after the Bro- By Susan Rocan

    Susan Rocan ties two plotlines together this week, and leaves our next person with a devilishly great last line to work off of. Here’s the beginning of Susan’s submission just as a tease.  You’ll have to hop on over to her site to see where she brings us. Jenelle perched on a branch outside the window, listening… Read more

  • Road to Publication #15: My Goodreads page

    Yay!  Another “Me” page.  This is starting to sound a little self-centered, but geeze it’s exciting to see yourself “out there” other than on your own web-site, where you are in complete control. I’m not going to get into all that “tingly” stuff again.  But yes, this is incredibly cool. Here’s the link to my… Read more

  • Six Sentence Sunday – “And the Nightinglae Sang” by Kip Wilson

    I recently purchased the anthology “Timeless, An Anthology of Young Adult Romance.”  Here are six sentences from one of those stories: “And the Nightingale Sang” by Kip Wilson In this passage, our heroine is meeting the boy she loves for the first time in months.  He is a traveling minstrel, and a poet, and she… Read more

  • The Big Announcement! Writing to a Deadline AGAIN #4 The Big Announcement!

    I am so excited to announce that I’ve just signed a contract with Still Moments Publishing to have my story Connect the Dots included in their 2012 Christmas Anthology. This is totally unbelievable.  In January, I posted a big boisterous banner proclaiming that I WOULD BE PUBLISHED by the end of 2012.  It was quite… Read more

  • Jon Gibbs’s Ten things I wish I knew before I was published #8: Write what you know

    Write what you know / write what they know. Look around to see who has just published a book in your genre that is doing well NOW. This will show you what the market is currently handling. If a story is in a magazine, it is good. They had to go through the same submission… Read more

  • Review of the Novel “Oracle” by JC Martin

    About a month or so ago, I was sent a copy of Oracle by the publisher, and was asked to do a review.  It sat in my inbox for a while.  I had too many books that I WANTED to read, and I really didn’t want to trudge through a police-case style mystery.  Just not… Read more