Josh Vogt - Fantasy Author & Freelancer Posts

I know it’s been kinda quiet around here lately. Partly it’s because of some freelancing work I picked up that has eaten up the hours. Progress is also being made on my latest manuscript, though slower than I’d hoped. In the meantime, here’s a recent interview I did with David…

After discovering this blog, I knew I had to pass it on for anyone who hasn’t heard of it yet. How To Kill Your Imaginary Friends is run by Dr. Grasshopper, who is a med student finishing his residency, and also a sci-fi/fantasy author. He got tired of seeing all…

For anyone who has read this blog for a bit, you’ll notice my participation in the Clarity of Night short-short fiction contest (taking an honorable mention in the last round) which comes around every so often. I find flash fiction a great challenge, plus it’s way faster than writing a…

Hat tip to Colleen Lindsay for this hilarious video of how to work as a literary agent and provide feedback for your author.  Subscribe in a reader

Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show has published its latest issue, containing my short story, Odd Jobs. There’s a snippet of the story available here, along with this great illustration. Excited to see this story released. Thanks to everyone from OWW and otherwise whose feedback contributed to a stronger final…

The contest ended last Wednesday, with more than 230 entries submitted this time. Seems like whenever the contest comes around again, the number of participants shoots up far higher than before. Here was my entry: #72, Furs and Ice Thanks to all for the kind and encouraging comments. Even though…

I just received word that my short story, Odd Jobs, should be showing up sometime next week in Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show, Issue 16. They just had me write up a brief about my inspiration for the story, which will be posted on the blog once the main…

WeBook, a website which also provides a literary agent query service (that seems to be working pretty well so far–Colleen Lindsay seems a big proponent of it), is now running a first page contest based on reader voting. Called PageToFame, it focuses on the quality of your novel’s first page,…

*Cough!* Welcome to a new year all. Hope your resolutions have been thoroughly pondered, noted down, charted on spreadsheets, printed out, and promptly burned. Helps skip a few steps, no? Anyways, we now have a shiny, sparkling 2010 handed to us–ready to be battered into submission. You’d think the people…

In this edition of “Where do writers get their ideas?”, through this article, we learn that a crematorium over in the UK is looking into “technology to reclaim some of the energy lost in the cremation process.” To quote: “Although the technology is still in its proving stages, the crematorium…