Madam Spew – Chapter 1 – The Swamp Lords Chronicles
Chapter 1. The Quest Acolyte Spew waddled across the muck floor of the hovel, a bone stiletto jutting tooth-like from her fist. “Forever don’t always […]
Month: July 2017
Real places in fiction
Spider Robinson published Callahan’s Key around the year 2000. Like all the other Callahan novels, it’s Spider’s own quirky brand of S/F. The book […]
The Guns of Fictionville
One pet peeve of mine is how often writers get firearm details wrong. Plenty of writers who don’t know which end of the gun […]
I Didn’t Choose the Thug Life. The Thug Life Chose Me
by Patrick LeClerc Several of the QM staff were on a panel recently entitled “So You Want to be a Writer,” where we tried the […]
Meeting Your Favorite Authors
Did you ever meet your favorite author? How was that for you? Results tend to vary. The most common way to meet authors is […]
Sandbox vs. Railroad: Some Thoughts on World Building
I’ve been a world builder for about thirty years now. I started when I was around nine or ten. I’m not exactly sure. My first […]
Science in Science Fiction
There are people out there who will pick apart every little science factoid included in your story. They do it with Star Wars and Star […]