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Simon Haynes's Blog
May 23, 2009
- Not sure whether you've seen my article on How to plot a novel, but there's a tantilising pic of a completed outline where the font is just too small to read. I keep getting emails from people asking me to make the pic bigger so they can read the text, or to provide the Freemind outline it belongs to. In the past I've said no because the outline was written for my own use and could contain just ...
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May 14, 2009
- I posted a version of this to the yWriter 5 group earlier today, but realised it might be useful to others outside that list.I've been working extra hard on my novel for the past week or so, and after much editing and re-editing I suddenly realised that working on dozens of scenes with 1500-3000 words in each is not much fun. After a few dozen changes to each scene, usually involving a bunch of ...
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May 9, 2009
- Great news for the Hal Spacejock series ... the 2009 Ditmar Awards ballot has just been announced, and Hal Spacejock No Free Lunch (Book 4) is a finalist in the Best Novel category. Last month Hal Spacejock No Free Lunch took out the WA Science Fiction Foundation 'Tin Duck' award for best SF/F/H novel of 2008. Earlier this year it was one of only five finalists in the Aurealis Awards Best SF ...
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May 6, 2009
- I love that moment where you've been working on a novel for months, you've written two thirds of the draft, and you suddenly get a flash of inspiration which allows you to greatly improve a sub-par subplot. Not only that, you also manage to tie it firmly to the main plot AND foreshadow upcoming events.This happens to me with every book I write, which is why I'm happy to write chapters and scenes ...
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April 27, 2009
- I've been twittering lately, hence the lack of blog posts. First bit of news: an award! Hal Spacejock No Free Lunch won the WASFF 'Tin Duck' award for best professional long work at Swancon last weekend. This is the second WASFF award in a row for the series, after Hal Spacejock Just Desserts won the same award last year. It's a very handsome trophy, although it was a real pain ...
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March 25, 2009
- These days, mostly on Twitter: http://twitter.com/spacejock Brevity and random scattered thoughts suit the way my brain works.
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March 22, 2009
- JA Konrath is currently on a blog tour, posting on different sites every day in March to promote the release of Afraid, a horror novel he wrote under the name Jack Kilborn. I put my hand up to participate in the blog tour, and when it came to the topic I said 'give me something on ebooks'. Here's JA Konrath's article on the subject ... Let's talk about illegal downloading and ebooks. As of ...
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March 13, 2009
- Pinched from Chris Dolley's blog because I'm up to my elbows in floor tile adhesive... FlyCon – the worldwide online SF/F con – starts today at midnight (Australia, EST) and 9am (US Eastern Time) and finishes at 5pm Monday in Australia and around midnight the day before in San Francisco. Panels and author chats are running continuously plus there’s a dealer’s room and a masquerade ...
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March 8, 2009
- Last year my publisher released Hal Spacejock book one as a free ebook, and we've seen just over 50,000 downloads to date. As of today the rest of the series is available in DRM-free ebook format at a super-low price of A$5 each. (Approx US$3.50) That means you can grab the entire series for A$15 (approx US$10), which is less than the price of a single paperback, and way less than the ...
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February 3, 2009
January 30, 2009
- Five books into the series and it's finally time for a Hal Spacejock novel with flashback scenes.I wrote a sequence of flashback scenes for this novel during NanoWrimo 2007, but until five minutes ago I didn't think I'd be using them. Now I've changed my mind. (Until I decide not to use them again.)At the very least I'll get a blog post out of them.I'm a very linear writer, and I like cause and ...
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January 28, 2009
- I'm working on the fifth book in a series, and I think I'm slowly gaining an understanding of how to actually plot and write a novel.Each book has a tortuous gestation period, which consists of me machine-gunning ideas at endless sheets of paper, then gathering up the smoking ruins and attacking them with a mental machete. My plot outlines get printed, scrawled on, stuffed back into the computer, ...
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January 24, 2009
- Newsdate: Mid-February 2009 What: Hal Spacejock books 2-4 released as low-cost ebooks. Where: Right about here Why you should care: Can't buy them in the shops, can you? (Outside Australia) What you should do: Repost this news. I'm facing several months of hard work on Hal Spacejock #5, and if you want to motivate me you can really help by making the upcoming ebook release an Earth-shaking, ...
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January 16, 2009
- If you've followed the Hal Spacejock series you'll know that each book opens with Hal in the flight deck sipping a coffee. This gives me a chance to introduce the regular characters over the first page or two, which helps bring new readers who may not have seen the earlier books up to speed. It's also a nice bit of calm before all hell breaks loose. With book five I have a killer opening (A) ...
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January 14, 2009
- S.C. Butler is a former Wall Street bond trader who always preferred Middle-earth to the Chicago Board of Trade. Currently he lives in Brooklyn with his wife and a whippet. His website is www.valingstoneways.com. What was your inspiration for writing Queen Ferris? Queen Ferris is the second book in my Stoneways trilogy, which includes Reiffen’s Choice, and the third book, The ...
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