Dan's Sci-fi & Fantasy Blog

Howdy, Recently, it occurred to me I've read scads of books during this year of pandemonium. Here are a few that, for one reason or...

Howdy, How often have you been told to show, don't tell? I don't get told that as much as I used to, but I still do. It's standard advice...

Howdy, Is your critique group surviving the pandemic restrictions on social gatherings? Maybe your group has always been a virtual one....

Howdy, I figure it's a time for a NaNoWriMo update. Admittedly, I'm not hacking out as many words as I would like to. Not nearly as many....

Howdy, Time to drop my second batch of books for the month. All speculative fiction this time, including one hell of a novella. I don't...

Howdy, Just because it's NaNoWriMo is no reason to stop reading. Recently, I've been neck-deep in fantasy and science fiction. Circe by...

Howdy, Will 2020 be a NaNoWriMo like none other or what? I typically don't go out of my way to participate in NaNoWriMo, but maybe this...

Howdy, Recently, I polished off the third and final season of Dark on Netflix. First off, the show is not nearly as horrifying as its...

Howdy, My reading has been all over the map this month. Given the state of political affairs, I've even read a journalistic book about...

Howdy, I've been up to my neck in fantasy lately. It is probably a good thing considering I've got a manuscript to edit for one and am...

Howdy, I've resisted writing about shows on this blog, but one has recently come up that is worth mentioning: The Social Dilemma. I...

Howdy, This is a companion piece to my post entitled Favorite Authors. The authors I will address in this post are ones I admire and who...

Howdy, I have to admit, I was skeptical when I first heard about Libby, the app that lets you check out ebooks, and, more importantly to...

Howdy, Just had a story accepted, this time over at The Horror Zine. I'd classify the tale, called Skin Deep, as sci-fi horror. I'm...

Howdy, Lately, I've been reading fantasy with a side dish of YA dystopia. Two of the books are quite good but not great. The third book,...

Howdy, In this guest post, YA author Peter Dragon offers up an alternative to planning your novel. How to create a story – without...

Howdy, I've encountered on the Internet and heard on the news scads of comments that boil down to this: I never guessed I'd be here five...

Howdy, I continue to be happy with having my YA WIP looked at by a professional editor. There are two significant advantages to having...

Howdy, Now that I'm a soon to be published novelist, I've discovered something. I need to be serious about my platform. Whatever that is,...

Howdy, A few months ago, I decided to take the plunge and hire an editor to take a look at my YA WIP. I did this for several reasons....