Josh Vogt - Fantasy Author & Freelancer Posts

Here’s a last writing resource for ya right before the holiday weekend hits. Probably won’t be around much once it does, so this should keep you entertained for a while. By writers, for writers, Writing Excuses/ is a collection of fifteen-minute podcasts on all sorts of topics and exercises that…

A lot of great series seem to be headed down this track lately. The Dabel Brothers have been working on Dresden Files comics, Dean Koontz comics, George R. R. Martin comics, Raymond E. Feist, and the list goes on… And now they’re going to adapt the whole of Robert Jordan’s…

This year’s High Voltage ConFusion hosted a number of notable authors, from Tobias Buckell to John Scalzi to Jim C. Hines. They ran numerous panels, interviews and lively discussions over topics that ranged everywhere…internet piracy, web marketing for authors, and so on. If, like myself, you didn’t get to attend…

I’ve never been one for audiobooks or that sort of thing, but this caught my eye…or ear, as it were. The Leviathan Chronicles is an audio sci-fi drama that is up to Chapter 7 at this point. The premise? A young immortal finds herself swept up in a secret war…

There appears to be a rash of strange crime-related news this week. For starters: A couple of crooks are overcome with guilt. One escaped from a county jail, but left a rose fashioned out of toilet paper behind, as a way of saying sorry for breaking out. (He was later…

If you’ve ever laid back on a cloudy day and tried to see shapes and images in the floating, fluffy balls of water, you know how much the mind can stretch to fashion sense out of random cotton puffs. But what if you could make a cloud out of your…

If you don’t know them, Strange Horizons is an nonprofit, free weekly webzine of speculative fiction. Right now, they’re trying to raise $6,000 to continue to pay their writers and cover costs for the zine production. Here’s the official announcement: 1. Strange Horizons publishes short fiction, poetry, reviews and articles…

David B. Coe, author of nine (and counting) fantasy novels, tells us what’s going on in his head as he is having difficulty getting what he calls “the best book he’s ever written” published. Despite his track record, despite his being an established author, he can’t even get editors to…

These kinds of lists are important, because you tend to know about 9 out of 10 of the items on them, but there may be 1 important detail lurking in the background that you can benefit from. And when the topic is the soul-wrenching search for an agent, well, why…

It’s funny how deciding the name of a place or person can stop the novel-writing process in its tracks. Their name determines how the reader views them from the first page. You can’t very well have a hero running around with the name of Reginald Blooddrinker the Nasty, can you?…