Resnick, a fantasy author with numerous books under her belt, delivers thoughtful, article-length blog posts. Readers may want to skip past the fluff on pets and foibles and peruse the entries categorized under writing- and publishing-related tags.
The entire Blue Ink blog is worth examining, but this series of posts compiling authors’ expenses for their self-published book projects is especially interesting. Numbers vary widely, from a couple hundred dollars to tens of thousands.
Prolific author Farland has been offering bi-weekly writing tips since 2011. He covers a wide spectrum of topics, from storytelling to scene-crafting to writers’ block.
The WPID purports to use “linguistic analysis” to “extract a spectrum of cognitive and social characteristics” from a person’s text. It might be a load of nonsense, but it could be an entertaining way to use first-person POV text to generate a character profile.
An interesting collection of long-form blog posts by a variety of fantasy, horror and sci-fi authors. Recent topics include collaboration, small press horror, and the challenges of writing franchise fiction.
