Gabrielle

Lightbringer

October 27, 2011

LIGHTBRINGER by K.D. McEntire Pyr kicks off their new Young Adult line with LIGHTBRINGER by debut author K.D. McEntire, releasing on November 15. This was a FUN book to work on, and I’m excited to see the early reviews starting to come in! “Lightbringer is a superb unforgettable young adult romantic urban fantasy filled with [...]

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5 Tips For Boosting Your NaNoWriMo Word Count

October 24, 2011

NaNoWriMo is almost upon us. Writers everywhere are stretching fingers and sharpening pencils, saying farewell to loved ones and clearing schedules to accommodate large blocks of writing time. The goal of NaNoWriMo is to pen 50,000 words within the month of November. Your mission is to get to that word count. There are no rules [...]

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The Etiquette of Retweeting

October 18, 2011

All of you are techologically clued-in, emotionally and socially sensitive individuals, so I don’t expect any of this to apply to you, my readers. Still, here are the three types of misguided retweets that really fail my whale. 1. The @ response. When you send a message beginning with @ and someone’s name (like @gabrielle_h), [...]

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Listen to Me and Ed on SF Signal!

October 7, 2011

Ed Greenwood and I sat down for a great chat with Patrick Hester (@atfmb) about all sorts of things, including anthology editing, Forgotten Realms, WHEN THE HERO COMES HOME, and (I neither confirm nor deny) bubblegum. It was a great time, and you can listen to episode 083 here.

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Goodreads HERO giveaway!

October 3, 2011

From now until October 31, you can sign up on Goodreads to win a free copy of WHEN THE HERO COMES HOME! TWO copies are up for grabs. They will be signed by yours truly, and mailed to lucky winners in the US or Canada. Click here to enter for free!

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Erik Scott de Bie on SHADOWBANE

September 29, 2011

SHADOWBANE: An Interview with Erik Scott de Bie Here to talk about his new Forgotten Realms novel Shadowbane, launching the end of this month from Wizards of the Coast, is rising Realms star and When the Hero Comes Home contributor, Erik Scott de Bie. From the searing, tragic romance of Ghostwalker to the endless fight [...]

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The Value of Collaborative Writing

September 26, 2011

When I’ve spoken in the past about the kinds of freeform text-based fantasy roleplaying games that have been my creative writing fix for the last eight years or so, people have always looked at me funny. But now, perhaps the old-school virtual communities have gained a bit more cred with this past Friday’s New York [...]

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A Couple Great Posts About Process

September 22, 2011

I’m about halfway through my next short story, and I was planning to write a post about the writing process today. Then I read J.M. Frey‘s latest blog post about her writing process, and I’ve changed my mind. You should go over to her blog and read that one instead. Unhooking – at JMFrey.net If [...]

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6 Tips for Choosing a Passage for Successful Readings

September 19, 2011

Performing a reading from your novel is a great way to get an audience interested in buying your book. How do you choose an excerpt to read and what should you watch out for? 1. A reading from your book should be entertaining, but it should also be a promotional tool. You’re giving your audience [...]

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Self-Publishing, SF/F, and Standards of Quality

September 12, 2011

Paul Cornell, in his Reno 2011 WorldCon report, says many things near and dear — both to my own heart, and to my own convention-going experience. Read this and learn what these conventions are like, why we go to them and why we love them. But one particular thing he says, which I’ve spent several [...]

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