Early Influences: Big Damn Adventures for Boys
by Patrick LeClerc Recently I have noticed theme among reviews of my books. A number of recent reviewers gave them 3 to maybe a […]
Writing
In Defense of Tropes: Instalove
by Patrick LeClerc I’ll be honest, I didn’t even known this trope had a name until recently, when reading through reviews, both of my own […]
In a Way, We’re All Winners. But in Another, More Accurate Way…
by Patrick LeClerc And, with the review from The Qwillery, my #SPFBO journey is at an end. It looks like I’ve made 8th place, and […]
Everybody Has a Plan Until They Get Punched in the Mouth
by Patrick LeClerc Recently, I had to confront one of the writer’s biggest challenges: the Bad Review. Well, it wasn’t exactly my first rodeo. I’d […]
Great Idea for a Story
by Raymond M. Coulombe Everyone has a great idea for a story. I mean absolutely everyone. If you’ve every written and published anything anywhere […]
Just Throwing This Out There
by Patrick LeClerc A while back, fellow QM editor Ray posted an editorial arguing against the thrown knife in literature.Check it out here: http://quantummusebooks.com/fantasy-skills/ […]
Authors in Dreamland
by Raymond M. Coulombe Dreams are weird. There’s no telling what’s going to come back with you from the Land of Nyx. Sometimes we […]
Darn You Joseph Campbell!
By Raymond M. Coulombe In his landmark book, Hero With a Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell explored the hero’s journey. It’s about the archetypal story […]
Why I’m Sick of the Chosen One
by Patrick LeClerc It’s a trope we all know. It’s been used by some of the most beloved authors in some of the best known […]
The Von Neumann Machine Universe
by Raymond M. Coulombe John Von Neumann was a Hungarian American who pioneered the concept of self-replicating machines. In short, the basic idea is […]