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Bookshelf: Verisimilitude
Deren Hansen’s Verisimilitude: How Illusions, Confidence Games, and Skillful Lying can Improve Your Fiction is a pithy and readable guide to improving your writing. It’s ostensibly about writing fiction, but in fact I think a lot of the advice is applicable … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne Gallagher, Brandon Sanderson, Deren Hansen, How to Write, Howard Tayler, Scott Westerfeld
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Artisan Publishing
Deren Hansen undersells the breadth and power of his book Artisan Publishing: Why to Choose the Road Less Traveled, claiming it’s a “why-to” rather than a “how-to” book. The truth is that the book fills both roles, and more besides. … Continue reading
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Tagged Artisan Publishing, Deren Hansen, Self-Promotion, Self-Publishing
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Rational Authors
The electronic frontier is neither literary heaven nor hell. It’s simply a new set of opportunities for readers and writers. It’s not a religion that requires you to renounce other forms of publishing. Rational authors, acting in their best business … Continue reading
Audiobook
It’s been a long time coming, but City of the Saints is now available as an audiobook. Get it at: Audible or Amazon or through the iTunes store (no link, you’ll have to find it yourself). Now, I’m posting this … Continue reading
Because I Love You
Audiobook coming. Very, very soon.
Westercon 67 (FantasyCon I)
Every con starts like this. Every con ends like this, too. In between, the rooms fill up with people, stories, and performances. My performances started on Thursday with a brilliant and ambitious but ill-starred presentation on steampunk and audiobooks with … Continue reading
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Tagged B. Daniel Blatt, Bear Putnam, Bob Defendi, Carter Reid, David J. West, Deanna Holland, Deena Campanile, Deren Hansen, Fantasycon, Filk, Graham Bradley, J.R.R. Tolkien, James Batchelor, James Wymore, Jason King, Kathleen Dalton-Woodbury, Kathy Mar, Kevin Anderson, Larry Correia, Lisa Mangum, Nathan Shumate, Peter S. Beagle, Peter Wacks, Rasputin, S.A. Butler, Sarah E. Seeley, Scott Taylor, Tom Durham, Vince Campanile, Westercon
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Westercon and Fantasycon ~ Thursday
Team Look for me today at 1:00 in Deer Valley I and II at Westercon, talking with Deren Hansen about Orrin Porter Rockwell, Steampunk, and the making of audiobooks. Then I shuffle across the street to Fantasycon. At 3:00 I’ll … Continue reading
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Tagged David J. West, Deren Hansen, Dungeoncrawlers Radio, Fantasycon, Filk, James Wymore, Scott Taylor, Steampunk, Westercon
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