Josh Vogt - Fantasy Author & Freelancer Posts

In an interesting twist to the Wikipedia phenomenon, I present Hoaxipedia. Your one stop resource for urban legends, pranks, scams, and tall tales. http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/hoaxipedia As they recommend, it’s fun just to click the “random page” link and see what info pops up. For instance, I found this list of Medieval…

If you’ve ever wanted the chance to show off your bad poetry, here’s your chance. Technically the Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest isn’t about bad poetry, per se. The actual idea is to have fun at the expense of those vanity poetry contests, where aspiring poets are made to shill…

Living in NYC, I hear a lot of different languages spoken every day, from tourist groups crowding the subways, to people just chatting as I walk by on the subway. Unfortunately, my own attempts at learning a new language have left me with those smatterings of voulez-vous and je sais…

We’ll call this a Weird News Weekend. Maybe I can make this a semi-regular thing, since there is no shortage of these kind of articles and happenings around our world. Does this article then say anything about the culture we live in today? http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/08/verizon-custome.html Your challenge, whether or not you…

Well, we’re off to the pet store once again. This time we’re picking up cat supplies. We’ll have our own family starter kit now. One boy, one girl. Their being a cat and a dog makes a little difference, I suppose. I’ll post pictures of the cat once he’s arrived.…

Both fascinating and disturbing on many levels. A book that covers the means and motives behind the more than 4,000 killings over the past fifty years. How to Kill The book tells the stories of not just “how” they died, but “why.” Why were these people, either important or seemingly…

Wonderful news. Brandon Sanderson’s next Mistborn book, The Well of Ascension is now out. I’m nabbing it up first chance I get. I like how Sanderson, as one of the review mentions, is showing how people who overthrow the evil empire must then deal with the difficulties of remaining in…

I believe that the better informed one is about publishing as a business, the better equipped you will be in handling your interactions with agents, editors and book-buyers with an impressive level of professionalism and savvy. Yes, you are an author–or at least hope to be sooner or later. However,…

Dug this out of Miss Snark’s blog, which, even though it is no longer in operation, still has a bus-load of precious writing gems waiting to be mined from the archives. http://misssnark.blogspot.com/2007/04/yea-this-works.html I figured this post was particularly applicable since it’s the process I’m caught up in right now…er…minus all…

Unfortunately, this book review is a bit negative. Mainly because the book I read didn’t live up to my expectations. If you’ve browsed around the blog a bit, you’ve seen my mostly positive reviews of the Nightside series, by Simon R. Green. I found it incredibly imaginative, and it hit…