Autumn Kalquist is the best-selling author of the Fractured Era series, and today she’s going to tell you a little about building a world…in space. To read more about the Sci-Fi side of speculative fiction, follow me to A Little Red Ink.
When I started dreaming of this foray into the hinterlands of Speculative Fiction, I made a wish list. Who has a unique spin on their craft? Who entertains? Who can we learn from? Today, it’s award-winning author Carla Laureano. Not only is she fabulously witty, she writes the kind of story you fly through (because […]
Speculative Fiction. That’s a broad term, baby. It’s cavernous. Let’s explore it, map it out just enough to be amazed. Its scope is enormous. Spec-fic includes sci-fi elements but still falls outside the genre. Throw in your futuristic gadgets, new species and races, monsters, magical abilities, and you’re getting somewhere. Rife with peril and possibility, virtue […]
Dearest peoples of Writerdom,Grammar Fixes are short and spicy. A minute or less. I’ll announce last week’s contest winners at the end of the post.Today, we’re talking about a common mistake that has become a pet peeve of mine. I see this pet so often I’ve thought about naming it. (Comment with your suggestions. Winner […]
‘Ello, loves! You’re going to want to check out what’s happening at A Little Red Ink. Coming up in the next few months are: Lyrical Gansters: Be a Writer Whose Work Sings Spelunking the Imagination: Speculative Fiction and Storyworld Kurt Vonnegut’s Eight Rules of Writing and more from Get Your Grammar Fix(ed) Thanks to Trey […]
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