"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."
This eBook comes following a rejection I got yesterday, and since it was the second one in the same day I decided to give you one of my favourite, if not my favourite book of all times. This version of the book comes from the...
An evil stepmother, three princesses in danger, magical waters, and a helpful lizard with a tail that points to the truth. I'm querying for an agent to represent my Gothic novel, and I publish an eBook for Patrons every time I get a rejection. I just...
Talking animals, liminal magic, a Court of fairies where dancing is the most important part of life, and a small almost-human with a crisis of identity who’s trying to navigate it all. Compared to the much more famous Peter Pan and Wendy, I think this...
Talking animals, liminal magic, a Court of fairies where dancing is the most important part of life, and a small almost-human with a crisis of identity who’s trying to navigate it all. Compared to the much more famous Peter Pan and Wendy, I think this...
Yesterday on my Patreon (and today on the blog) I wrote what I was going to do each time I got a rejection to my query for an agent to represent my novel, which is gifting an eBook to all my middle and upper-tier Patrons...
Dear Patrons of every level and tier, Blog followers and innocent bystanders, I promised I was going to start querying in January, and here I am: yesterday I've officially sent my first query to a prospect agent, which included: - the first twenty pages of the novel; -...
I've been sharing with you my writing journey for a while now, either here, on the Blog or on my social platforms (mostly The App Formerly Known as Twitter), and one of the most recent developments is that I've closed deals with different readers to...
I've been following Ioanna Papadopoulou on Twitter for quite some time now, and I know how passionate she is about mythology, folklore and her Greek heritage. I also knew she was working on what she called "a dark retelling" of the myth of Demeter, and...
Among the most common are that myths are stories about gods, myths are sacred stories, myths are stories that explain the way the world is, or myths are simply traditional stories that hand on collective knowledge or experience. Writers from various disciplines and intellectual movements have...
Borrowing G.S. Kirk's distinction between three kinds of myth, today on my Patreon we take a look at entertainment, operative, charter and explanatory myths, and what this distinction means for us when we tell a story. The post will be released to the public tomorrow,...
