Josh Vogt - Fantasy Author & Freelancer Posts

An interesting article linked below on whether giving away free ebooks really helps sell printed books. Cory Doctorow seems to think so, though there are certainly those who disagree. http://www.locusmag.com/Features/2007/09/cory-doctorow-freekonomic-e-books.html First question: Would you do it? Would you be willing to give an entire novel away for free to whoever…

I like obscure things, simply because the nature of their being obscure means I might be part of the minority that actually knows about the existence of whatever the “obscure thing” it is. But what I enjoy most about learning something obscure is being able to share it with others…not…

CNN threw up this article yesterday: Real life plot twists of famous authors They list nine different well-known authors, like Charles Dickins, Langston Hughes, etc. and then reveal something odd about their career beginnings, personal habits, or just some lesser-known fact about the person. Thankfully, the authors didn’t get a…

This hit me as a “No…really?” headline in the news. Laser surgery in wrong hands can be dangerous Moving on. As I try to stay in touch with other writers, whether online, at work or wherever, I hear lots of people talk about having “writer’s block” if they’ve gone a…

Random note before the actual blog: Only in NYC would you take your dog outside at midnight so it can do it’s business, and during said walk on an unlit, empty street, be overtaken and then passed by a guy riding a unicycle. Only in NYC. Back to the topic…

So let’s see what we’ve got: Strange object crash-landing from space. Check. Remote area of the world. Check. Noxious odors and mysterious illnesses. Check. Peru meteorite crash Does anyone suspect that we’re going to start hearing about pod people or zombies soon? We’ve even got scientists giving reassuring claims that…

Perfect to kick off this Weird News Weekend, here is a pair of articles I ran across a day apart. In this first article, we find out that State Sen. Ernie Chambers Sues God! Holy Toledo. The end of the world got’s to be comin’ if God is the latest…

This article sums it up well. Publishing, and getting published, is generally a slow industry and a slow process. It takes time to write a book…sometimes years for folks. It takes time to track down an agent or editor and get a contract signed. Again, sometimes years. And then, a…

Warning: Original article does contain language (particularly of the rotting and foul type, and mostly in the comments) so if you are offended by such, I’ll keep it clean in this post. Link clicker beware… Fantasy readers have most likely seen some phrase similar to: “By Bolstrom’s Blasted Beard!” or…

I just learned that Robert Jordan (pen name for James Oliver Rigney, Jr.), the bestselling author of the gigantic Wheel of Time series, died Sunday of a rare blood disease, which he’d been fighting against for years. ‘Wheel of Time’ author Robert Jordan dies (I’d link to his direct blog,…