Josh Vogt - Fantasy Author & Freelancer Posts

Fine. Hmph. I’ll do it. Seems a few days ago, the Mir tagged me after answering her own survey, which was placed upon her by another of her blogging friends. I asked if tag-backs were allowed, but she threatened to vent her wrath upon me, and I really didn’t want…

“I hear voices in my head.” This claim almost seems a badge of pride for some writers. I’ll admit, I’ve said it quite often myself, because it’s actually how I go about forming a lot of the dialog I write. I hear the characters speaking (or yelling, or whispering) to…

It’s Wednesday. You say, Yes, Josh. That’s what tends to come after Tuesday. But Wednesday is a rough day. It’s the smack-a-dab middle of the week that feels like a malfunctioned Friday. I’ve an ongoing debate with anyone who cares that Wednesdays can be worse than Mondays. It’s like crawling…

I saw this reading list being batted about yesterday and have decided that I must now buck up the bucks to get as many books as I can from it. Now begins the mad search on Amazon.com to see which ones I can come by cheapest. What is this list?…

Some great news! Turns out David Edelman (Infoquake) selected one of my entries as a winner in the “Opening lines of a Jewish Marxist Werewolves of Bolivia novel” contest, which I found incredibly cool of him to do. Click here for his post on the contest results Here’s my entry…

How many of you have websites and blogs of your own? I’ve a list of writing sites and blogs that I visit, sometimes daily. I know that the blog-check addiction afflicts many of us. We follow our favorite authors, hoping to see that little tidbit about their personal lives, or…

This post comes for a variety of reasons. One is I enjoy playing games, and I enjoy sharing the fun of these games with others. Another is that Benighted, by Kit Whitfield, is a great book that everyone should hear about and read. This particular title surfaced in the bog…

Whether you believe in some form of faith, religion, or otherwise, it pervades our society today. There’s any number of belief sets to choose from, and within each religious organization, the walks of life are as unique as the people who choose to follow them. There’s Christianity (which is my…

I finally dug down deep enough in my stack of Books-To-Read-Before-I-Die and found myself flying through a book I mentioned a bit back: Hinterland, by James Clemens. I think I promised a review of it, since I gave one of the first in the series, Shadowfall. So here it is.…

Two lovely bits for you to sort through today. Take one home. Toss the other away. Or maybe keep them both for a rainy day. Sorry. Found myself in a rhyme there somehow. Shan’t happen again. Moving on. First is this illuminating post from yesterday by one literary agent Kristin…