Josh Vogt - Fantasy Author & Freelancer Posts

While fiddling with the initial scenes of a fledgling manuscript, I received a fun email. From Scott, my agent at Folio Literary Management. Thankfully, this confirmed that my conversation with him last week concerning representation wasn’t a.) a prank or b.) a hallucination. Phew. The email contained some of Scott’s…

For those who have participated in the Clarity of Night flash fiction contests before, you know how much fun it is and how incredibly diverse the entries are based on a single photograph. A new contest is in the works, and Jason Evans, the Clarity of Night moderator, has released…

After meeting Scott Hoffman at the Pike’s Peak Writer’s Conference and submitting an urban fantasy novel to him, he’s offered representation! I’ll be working with Folio Lit agency, and am excited beyond belief to have reached this next step in my writing career. Must now go jog a few miles…

…I brainstorm stories better while on a long walk or pacing the living room. Sense of Touch Shapes Snap Judgements – from Wired.com Do you find this to be true in your experiences?  Subscribe in a reader

I’ve got two new reviews up on my Speculative Fiction Examiner page. One is for Black Blade Blues, about a blacksmith who gets her hands on a legendary Norse sword and has to deal with girlfriend troubles and…draconic investment bankers. The other is Cory Doctorow’s For the Win, a penetrating…

Tor‘s publicity department has started releasing previews of Brandon Sanderson‘s upcoming novel, The Way of Kings. Over the next few months, they’ll be doling out tour info, further excerpts, and more. For now, if you head over to Tor.com and register on the site, you can read the first three…

An artist known as ThrowingChicken (listed on the deviantART website) has recently finished a project in which he has created fossils molds…from the future. Pictures such as the one below represent his vision of what might be dug out of the ground a million years from now. Check out the…

My latest manuscript is now in a full, if very rough, state. This has been one of the longest spans it has taken me to write a novel, mostly because of the month I had to take off from writing around the middle of the plot. But it’s finished now…

Okay, this isn’t from a workshop or panel, but I was delighted to find someone from this year’s Pike’s Peak Writer’s Conference managed to record the event where literary agent Donald Maass, fantasy author Todd Fahnestock, and conference registrar Jodi Anderson all peer-pressured each other into performing a group sashay…

Thanks to io9.com for this bit of news that’s close to home here in Colorado. Apparently, Nancy Marks, a professional psychic based in Lafayette, CO was arrested on charges of fraud. Psychics? Fraud? How is that news, you ask? Well, it’s all in the flair this particular psychic put on…