This happened a week or two ago, but I’ve been so busy I haven’t been able to keep up with my blog posts. Anyway…My debut novel The Panama Laugh is on the preliminary ballot for the Bram Stoker Award from the Horror Writers Association! I’m not a “nominee” yet, and I’m definitely not a “finalist,” [...]
From my new column at The Night Bazaar, about finding your strengths and weaknesses as a writer: I’m far from convinced there’s any such profession as “writer” anymore; we’re all multi-taskers, by definition. But there is this thing called “writing,” yes, and occasionally I get to do it. When it comes to writing itself, I [...]
Here’s an excerpt from my new post at The Night Bazaar, “Heroes and Heroines:” I’m never quite sure what makes a hero, which I think is probably the key to knowing what makes a hero. I look at it this way: if being a hero was easy, everyone would do it. But it’s not just [...]
Given the stunning, overwhelming, “Tell-Scorsese-he-can-wait” success of my first novel, noir-themed zombie apocalypse The Panama Laugh (of which there are extremely few copies left — extremely few! — so you’d better buy it right now or they might run out), people keep asking me, they say, “Rosanne Rosanna-Danna, what other a-zombie stories have you a-written?” [...]
I was asked to participate in a recent Mind Meld over at the science fiction blog SF Signal. The question was “What book did you last read that you would recommend to a friend.” I love the answers — it’s always great hearing what other readers are enjoying. In keeping with my recent Steampunk reading [...]
This week we’re talking about narrative point of view, a topic close to my rotten, diseased heart. My nearest and dearest will tell you that there is nothing I love more than annoying the living bejeezus out of readers by using an atypical POV. Mind you, this only really works (for me) in short fiction. [...]
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Posted 21 October 2011
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Tagged: A Rose For Emily, Bright Lights Bit City, Faulkner, how to write, How to Write Novels, How to Write Short Stories, Jay McInnery, Narrative, novel, Point of View, POV, Short Story, writing
Hey! If you’re in the San Francisco area, come see me read with Richard Kadrey and Naamen Tilahun at Borderlands Books on Valencia Street tomorrow evening (Saturday 10/15/2011). It’s part of Litquake’s Litcrawl, the annual orgiastic celebration of the spoken word. You can find more details at my blog, or go to Borderlands-Books.com or Litquake.com. [...]
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