Josh Vogt - Fantasy Author & Freelancer Posts

It’s going up for auction tonight. Don’t miss out. Yet another beautiful piece of artistry by http://www.alexcf.com/blog/ And yes, I know beauty is a relative term here, considering it involves a severed head. But the potential uses are endless. Serve it with cranberry sauce for next Thanksgiving. Put it in…

Well, we didn’t get eaten by bears (or grues) and it turned out to be a great weekend up in the mountains. Though our early start on Saturday was hindered by two flat tires, we finally made it up and ended up doing most of a 12 mile hike that…

And camping for the night. Should be back Sunday for a birthday dinner with the folks. Here’s to hoping we don’t get eaten by a grue…I mean bear. See you on the flipside.  Subscribe in a reader

For anyone who has ever been frustrated by the query writing process, you should head on over to literary agent Nathan Bransford’s blog. Aside from being a long-time fighter for strong queries that don’t start with rhetorical questions, Bransford recently posted his thoughts on why certain queries, even when they…

I am not a runner. Nor am I a morning person. I prefer to sleep in until noon and stay up until 3am. I prefer to work out with my martial arts, rather than loping around the block to end up right where I started. Yet for the past couple…

If you’re ever going to go down in a plane crash, this is the way to do it. Of course, the entire incident wasn’t escaped without casualty, but think about how it could’ve played out with just a regular passenger plane. Yet another example of events in life that if…

This could be an interesting or frustrating experiment. It all depends on you. In the summer of 2010, the SciFi Channel is going to release an online roleplaying game that will directly relate to a current television series. Whoever plays the game, and the course that characters and events take…

If, as we talked about in an earlier post, claiming divine inspiration doesn’t get copies flying off the shelves, this author presents another textbook way to get even major news networks to mention the upcoming publication. Step 1. Rent a small plane (also, please know how to fly it, or…

Have you noticed there’s been a lot in the news lately about UFO’s? Now that sort of thing has come pretty close to home for me. There’s a Denver man, Jeff Peckman, who is arguing for the city council to open an Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission to deal with future alien…

Other than that, spending time revising like a fiend, getting a few flaws massaged out of one of my stories, thanks to feedback from OWW. What’s up with your hot and sunny weekend? I see that smile.  Subscribe in a reader