Category Archives: Writing and Publishing

The Fountain Has been Shortlisted

Evil Alter Ego Press is pleased to announce, Suzy Vadori’s debut Young Adult Novel, The Fountain, has been shortlisted for the 2016 Prix Aurora Award. A short blurb about the book: Ava Marshall, dr… Source: The Fountain Has been Shortlisted

The REAL Reason I Failed to Properly Edit my First Novel – Guest Post

Two of the beta readers came to me after I published the book afraid I might end our friendship when I heard what they had to say. I’d given them copies with no edits and explained so at the time, but for them, the spelling errors had been so distracting, they couldn’t get very far.

Dimensional Abscesses Giveaway Contest

am giving away 5 copies of Dimensional Abscesses: Portals to Places You Don’t want to go. What do you have to win? Simple. Leave a comment below with a place you would not want to go before June 5th, and I will pick my 5 favorites. And of course sharing the contest with your friends will make it more fun.

Blog Hop – TAG – Zachary Ricks

As I said in my last post I would be tagging two other authors in the blog hop thing.

The first of those two authors is my friend and co-founder of Flying Island Press, Zachary Ricks.

What’s in a Name? The Power that a Name can Hold

As a fiction writer, I think this important to keep in mind as we name our organizations, and groups, locations and star ships. Those names is determine how our readers perceive them.

A Mid Summer Night’s Dream

A few years ago I got it in my head that I wanted to direct and produce an all audio full cast version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. At the time I worked for Flying Island Press, and I had my own little “island” called Pirate’s Cove.

Reason Number 5 that I Love Speculative Fiction

As any great piece of speculative fiction should this one makes you think. While this piece is pretty straight forward at the outset, and might not even seem like Sci/Fi or even Fantasy, it is something much much more.