Tag: authors
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Fan Fiction, Authors Earning Less, and more…
How free should novelists be to imagine radically different lives? (The Guardian) My new novel may need justifying. Half of it is narrated by Sofia, a 17-year-old girl born in Cairo; I’m a 47-year-old man who has never lived outside the UK. More to the point, the story opens with Sofia arriving in Syria to…
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Racist Sci-Fi, Novels Steering Boys Away from Toxic Masculinity, and more…
Inside the World of Racist Science Fiction (NY Times) Most of the books are self-published. Others are distributed by small, activist imprints or the publishing arms of white nationalist organizations. They are sold online, at gun shows or person to person. This scattershot distribution system makes it hard to track sales, but the more popular…
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Ian Nathaniel Cohen, author of The Brotherhood of the Black Flag
What have you written so far? So far, I’ve completed and published one novel: The Brotherhood of the Black Flag, a historical thriller set in the Golden Age of Piracy. I also write a movie review blog called the INCspotlight (a pun on my initials), formerly for the website Channel Awesome. As of March 2018,…
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The Timeless Enemy by Jesse Teller
When I was a boy, my parents took me to the movies. This was back when we had no money. No money at all. We had to fight to get food on the table and we were always strapped. Well somehow, my parents found the money and the time to take us to the movies,…
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Waiting for the Sun to Go Down by Jesse Teller
There is a low hum. A bit of a hiss. Like that first few minutes on vinyl before the song starts. You can hear the song churning out low and slow. You are in the dark now. Lying on your floor with those huge headphones on. Around you, the world is still going. You have…
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YA Fiction, Eco-Lit, An Algorithm Writing its own Sci-fi…
Why So Many Adults Love Young-Adult Literature (The Atlantic) These books are about coming of age, and we’re still coming of age.“What all these YA novels share is a universal coming of age experience,” Jennifer Loja, president of Penguin Young Readers, wrote to me in an email. The bildungsroman—the original term for a coming-of-age story—dates…
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On Writing and Publishing: David Z. Morris and Berneta L. Haynes
Shortly after the release of David Z. Morris’ debut novella, in night we coax things out of hidden shapes, Waking Writer’s editor sat down with him to discuss their writing journeys and the experience of publishing their first books. Berneta: What have you written so far? David: I’ve made my living as a writer, in…
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Author Interview: Clifton Barnhart
Can you share with readers a little about your latest book? On July 7th, 2012, Jesse Burke passed away. He was my dearest friend. Jesse and responsibility is the fictionalization of our time together. In 2011, I quit drinking, which made me very sick. I knew Jesse in China as a roommate, bar buddy and…
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