Josh Vogt - Fantasy Author & Freelancer Posts

Evil is dumb. There’s no other explanation for why the villains continue to make idiotic mistakes that lets the hero shish-ka-bob their kidneys. There are far too many nearsighted megalomaniacs who spend all their time making complicated deathtraps, gloating over inevitable victory, only to be undone because they can’t seem…

If you have any experience with computer games (some roleplayers might like this as well) then check out this music video. It plays at the end of a recently released game, Portals. Lots of inside jokes about first-person shooters, AI’s gone mad, and other game tropes, but even if you…

I know. Hard to believe, right? I suppose some people might still call me that. Anyways, this meant that at some point in my formative years, I was exposed and dragged into this fascination (some might say fanatical cult) of science fiction and fantasy lovers. How did this happen? The…

When you enter a bookstore, you are presented with enough options to make a Rubik’s cube look simple. What aisles dare you to browse down? Self-help? Romance? The pastel-colored children’s section? All the way into that far back corner of the lower level where science fiction and fantasy tend to…

I don’t normally use this blog as a pulpit, though I’m certainly not adverse to anyone’s questions about religion and/or faith, should they pop up. But I did come across this passage in the Bible recently and thought it oddly applicable to my present situation in writing. I thought I’d…

Fall is finally here in NYC. By that, I mean the temperature has dropped below 80 degrees and we don’t start sweating the moment we lift our heads off the pillow. There’s a nice brisk to the air that means we have to be fashionable with sweaters and turtlenecks (which…

We have free coffee and soda dispensers at work, in this tiny kitchen area down the hall. I don’t actually drink coffee or tea. Never bought into the Starbucks habit, and I hope I never do. In fact, give me a mocha latte and I’ll have an enormous headache after…

This is a post of curiosity, sending out questions to anyone who drops by and reads this blog. I’m always grateful for your comments, insights and encouragement, but I’m interested in knowing where everyone else is on their writing adventures. What roads have you followed? Are you published? Novels? Short…

A must-have for any writer going to a conference in the near future. Be sure to keep this handy abduct…er…self-defense tool nearby when agents and editors fling themselves at you to rip your sure-to-be-bestselling manuscript from your hands. Make sure they keep their distance with a few zaps until they’ve…

Alma Alexander (author of Worldweavers, first in a trilogy) gives her clear opinion on how to approach the author-agent relationship, which I found refreshing. Sometimes I think I lose a little focus in my continuing search for an agent. I get too caught up in tweaking one or two words…