One of our fave writer-illustrator-screenwriting-vloggers, Stephanie Bourbon, tells us all that we need to know about genre writing. Yeppers, really, kids, it’s right here!
Hello, Dear Writers!
Sure, you’ve watched J. Michael Straczynski’s groundbreaking TV series Babylon 5, and odds are you’ve loved it because groundbreaking, you know? But do you know what it took to get this sucker on the air?
Sit back, click below, and – to quote from another popular s-f TV series – “all will be revealed.” Well, almost all. Enjoy, fans and future TV series creators, enjoy!
This is just one of the well-made and often fascinating videos available on Al Schlicher’s Vimeo channel.
Doing a Kickstarter isn’t hard.
I’m putting my money where my mouth is, figuratively speaking. I’m doing a Kickstarter campaign to fund converting my fiction podcast, ESCAPE! Scifi, into a full cast audiobook. You can find it here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/anewdawn/a-new-dawn-audiobook
I’ve been thinking about a KS for a while, but I had no idea how to start. I thought it would be difficult and time consuming, so I didn’t do anything about it.
LB’S NOTE: As of this particular moment (as opposed to that non-particular moment, I suppose), Caimh McDonnell (“comedian, writer, Irishman,” as his blog tells all who discover it) is my favorite novelist because of his ability to make genre detective stories read like literary fiction.
So imagine my surprise when I discovered that his skill is about as far from accidental as can be. Dood not only knows exactly what he’s doing, he’s happy to share that knowledge with the rest of us grunts.
So listen, listen good. No, not with your ears. He’s a writer, dammit, not an AI voice. Anyway: