Josh Vogt - Fantasy Author & Freelancer Posts

A quick post today to point you in the direction of this audio interview with agent extraordinaire, Nathan Bransford. Just came across it, though it’s been available for a bit. And if you haven’t checked out Bransford’s blog before, be sure to visit. Besides being funny, the guy provides tons…

To end the week, I thought I’d share this link from one of my writing email series that lands in my inbox every so often.  Behold the World’s Worst Book Proposals! Warning: Do Not Read While Drinking Anything. It will come up the nose, I guarantee. You can browse back…

Now here’s a contest worth entering. The steampunk artist AlexCF, whose creative works I’ve posted a few times on this blog, has designed an impressive time machine which is the grand prize of a contest being run by Solaris Books. It’s easy enough to enter. All you have to do…

Not what you’re thinking. Writing Excuses is a podcast series run by Brandon Sanderson, Howard Taylor and Dan Wells, covering many aspects of the writing bizniz and how to overcome challenges of the craft such as humor, plot pacing, character POV, and much more. It’s a great series to listen…

You all seen the ads for this upcoming sci-fi series? Sanctuary is a new show coming to town that brings together creatures of myth, legend and horror, and gives them a safe place to hide from angry mobs and the light of day.  Sanctuary is the story of a 157-year-old…

Maybe a few years’ Christmas and birthday presents rolled into one? http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/09/11/immersive.cocoon/index.html All I need to do now is figure where these tubes plug in. I see that smile.  Subscribe in a reader

Must share. Laughed so hard. http://xkcd.com/483/ If you haven’t discovered this webcomic, by the way, then you are missing out on some amazing geek humor. Do yourself a favor. Start at 1 and move forward. Poignant, hilarious, and nerdish, all rolled into one. How can you lose? http://xkcd.com I see…

My body decided to call for an “abandon ship” yesterday. I wish it would at least give some warnings when it plans to do that. Anyways, home again today, trying to find some more solid ground to stand on. Can’t say ye ol‘ thought processes are chugging along at 100%…

Pretty self-explanatory of this article. A good handful of agents were surveyed by Writer’s Digest and asked what they hate to receive in queries and submissions. Their answers?  Right here. Some of them are obvious, sure, like: “I hate it when a book begins with an adventure that turns out to be…

I came across this interview of Tobias Buckell over at the Rescued by Nerds blog.  The Interview In it, Buckell gives an overview of this three released novels, how he developed the ideas and what themes he tried to work into the mix. Here’s a snippet: MC: For people unfamiliar with…