Josh Vogt - Fantasy Author & Freelancer Posts

It’s a rare remake that catches my eye these days, what with every single film corporation dredging up every possible already-told story to work into some new money-making entertainment machine. However, this version of the making of the Tin Man, from the Wizard of Oz, is a mix of steampunk,…

If you don’t know who Donald Maass is, and you are a speculative fiction writer looking for a literary agent…well, shame on you, I suppose. For two reasons. First, Donald Maass is one of those “rock stars” of literary agents with a super-successful agency based in New York. He and…

Kelley Armstrong is a Canadian author responsible for several paranormal series, such as the Otherworld books and the Darkest Powers trilogy. At this year’s Pike’s Peak Writer’s Conference, besides giving a keynote speech about how to deal with “the rules” as a writer, she also ran a workshop on pacing…

During this year’s Pike’s Peak Writer’s Conference, Carol Berg taught her view of Voice in writing. Not the writer’s voice, mind you, which involves how an author tells the story. That would be another day-long lecture altogether. No, she talked about the character’s voice within the story. How do they…

The Pike’s Peak Writer’s Conference 2010 has drawn to a close, and I’ve come away with a mix of emotions that always seems to accompany conferences. Excited at all the contacts I made with agents and editors as well as new friends and their cool projects. A little sad at…

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I’m not a photographer by any stretch, but seeing this new feature–which is an upcoming release for Adobe Photoshop–makes me want to get it just to mess around with pictures and see how much I can change them. Hooray for technology! Check out the video of the new Content-Aware fill…

A fun side note this week. I’ve posted a bit about WEbook, an online writing community with tools to help writers submit queries to agents, and also their ongoing Page-to-Fame contest, where readers rate manuscript pages and chapters to advance them through each stage. WEbook’s March newsletter has a sidebar…

The verdict is in, and it isn’t a happy one. Canadian science fiction author Peter Watts, who was beaten and arrested by border guards when traveling back home from the US, was found guilty in the charge of having assaulted those border guards. Further info on the case and people’s…