by Jeremy | Aug 30, 2021 | Uncategorized
A lot of people recently have been hearing that retweets won’t make any difference for PitMad visibility, and that perhaps they should comment instead. Twitter is a very complicated platform, and how agents interact with it is somewhat unpredictable, so giving...
by Jeremy | Oct 29, 2020 | Writing
Magic. Adventure. Mayhem. Ferrets. How did the ferrets get involved? Allow me to explain the planning process—or lack thereof—that resulted in the strangeness of The Great Wish for a Good Spice Tea. The testing of the scenes Every time I write a new book, I start with...
by Jeremy | Oct 20, 2020 | Writing
In today’s fast-paced lifestyle of short attention spans and even shorter patience, readers expect instant gratification. They want fun. They want adventure. They want humor and emotion and plot twists and surprises. But most of all, they want it fast. All of my...
by Jeremy | Oct 15, 2020 | Writing
Voice is everything. As a writer, you’ve probably been told this at every turn. It’s more applicable to literary fiction, but it matters in genre fiction as well. Voice is everything, and sometimes the right choice is to not have a voice. Sometimes you...
by Jeremy | Oct 11, 2020 | Writing
When I set out to write The Great Wish for a Good Spice Tea, I gave myself one goal: to create a compelling story using a magic system that should not work. At all. And I may have even succeeded. The idea is simple. Take the concept of deus ex machina—gods from the...
by Jeremy | Mar 17, 2019 | Writing
My epic fantasy series, The Prime Saga, originally consisted of three books at about 250k words each. (That’s pretty long.) This is the story of how I split them in half (and added three more), ending up with nine 80-130k word books. I invented a term for it...
by Jeremy | Dec 22, 2018 | Writing
Ah, process. Some people live by it. But most writers I meet, especially amateur writers, hate process. I’m a software engineer by trade—and I approach writing very professionally—so process is a very important part of things for me. Here, we’ll explore my...
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by Jeremy | Sep 27, 2018 | Writing
This past year I’ve done a lot of writing, but I’ve also been heavily focused on revision. I hate revision, but it’s a necessary evil in this business. So I thought it might be interesting to talk about some of the techniques I’ve developed....
by Jeremy | Jan 26, 2018 | Writing
John picked up the gun and checked the chamber—full, of course. Anna hadn’t had time to get a shot off. But what had happened? His head was whirling. He couldn’t make sense of anything. So he did the only thing he could do: he headed for the door at the...
by Jeremy | Mar 4, 2017 | Writing |
Allow me, if you will be so kind, to coin a new word. As authors, we’re trained to always foreshadow. This means we drop hints to the reader in advance—preferably three or more times—that something is going to happen. Why foreshadow? Mostly, to avoid deus ex...
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