Josh Vogt - Fantasy Author & Freelancer Posts

Editing and revising. It’s that part of the writing process where you scoop up the pile of words that you’ve splattered across the page and try to make something neat and shiny out of them. Something you wouldn’t be embarrassed to show in public. There’s the idiom that when writing…

Every year, the wordsmiths at Merriam-Webster get the unenviable job of deciding what new words and terms must be added to the dictionary. Some of the latest additions for 2007? Ginormous Crunk Smackdown Bollywood Speed dating Sudoku I’m serious..see? http://www.cnn.com/2007/LIVING/wayoflife/07/11/new.words.ap/index.html What are words that you use that you think should…

Holy freaking blood-sucked cow! http://www.manydeadthings.tk/# The artistic genius at Many Dead Things has now produced another unbelievably cool collection piece that I so so so want to bid on. A full-blown Vampire Anatomical/Biological Research Case. What’s it include? The partial skull fragment of a Homo wampyrus, housed within a glass…

This man has now gained my ultimate and unending respect. These are the kind of things you see in Saturday morning cartoons and never expect anyone to actually try. It seems like a great story idea if you’re reaching for one. A man ties a bunch of balloons to his…

The two halves of the headline have nothing to do with each other. Just so we’re clear on that. A bit of news, first. Dragons, Knights, and Angels magazine is officially joining forces with The Sword Review. The union of these two publications has resulted in MindFlights, a new magazine…

If you enjoy meeting an author and want to know if they’ll be anywhere in your area soon, check this site out: Book Tour- Where Authors and Audiences meet It also lets you search for events according to zip code, genre, and dates so you can check out any events…

I ought to get some of those strong earth magnets from Radio Shack and stuff my pillow with them. Magnets may make the brain grow stronger Admittedly, this has only been shown in mice, so far, and they don’t really know exactly why or how it works. But I’m willing…

No, the title isn’t me cursing like a cartoon sailor. It’s just a visual list of some of the punctuation marks that we use every day. But punctuation, like words, have their beginnings. Here’s how we got a few of the pieces of typeset that we use nowadays. The Origin…

Digging around led me to these discussions on promotion by Tobias Buckell and John Scalzi. Mad crazy book pimp Towards a theory of PR I got thinking about this not for my own writing, but because my mother’s book is actually coming out soon. Again, let me raise it to…

Sure, your arm will weigh ten pounds more than normal, but it’ll give you some good definition in those forearm muscles when you wear one of these watches for long enough. (And yeah, I thought some of these looked like torture devices from one of those Saw movies) But overall…