November 2nd, 2006 by Kevin Andrew Murphy
I have to admit I have a big love for fonts and typography. The way the different typefaces look, they way they help to set the mood of a book before you even read a single word on the page. I ve noticed them ever since I saw my first illustrated capital in a [.
..] August 14th, 2006 by Kevin Andrew Murphy
Well, I managed to catch this just before it left San Jose.
What is it, you may ask? Well, it s the latest project from etoy, the Zurich-based artists who ve done various avante-garde tech-savvy art projects over the years, including the ToyWar some years back, where I signed on as one of their toy soldiers to [..
.] July 16th, 2006 by Constance Ash
The days of judging a book by its cover are drawing to a close. Publishers have finally tapped into the MTV generation, and now it is possible to make your literary choices in advance online by watching a sequence of rapid-fire images accompanied by a thumping score, big flashing words and, if you re lucky, a deep-voiced [.
..] July 15th, 2006 by David Louis Edelman
Since my last Stupid Writer Tricks column about casting your characters with Hollywood actors proved so unpopular with well, everybody, I m hoping this one will be a little less controversial.
What are the right tools for the trade of writing? Well, obviously they [..
.] July 13th, 2006 by Constance Ash
Vampires is a populous subgenre. Perhaps you would like to create a work featuring a vampire or vampires, but, you wonder, being the professional genre writer that you are, Will anybody be interested in another novel, another movie, another television program or a [.
..] July 6th, 2006 by David Louis Edelman
According to the inimitable John Scalzi (who got his stats from Technorati), DeepGenre is the 41st most popular personal science fiction and fantasy blog on the Web.
July 5th, 2006 by Constance Ash
The real benefits, if any, to a non-celebrity author, seem to be nebulous at this time.
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