What is going on with the fantasy/sci-fi section?

onefinemess | January 30, 2010

Are urban fantasy covers “ruining” it?  Rendering it trashier?  And keep in mind I ask this as a writer of UF.
I put “ruining” in quotes because well,  it’s all relative isn’t it…?
So, am I getting at?
Well, let’s start with an illustration.  I picked out four books, somewhat at random, on my last trip into a [...]

halfway, again

onefinemess | October 27, 2009

So, I’ve been working on my second “book” for about a month now.  I’m 32k in, which should be about halfway.  I’m also at chapter 15 out of my planned 20 on my outline. Although the final chapters will be denser than the beginning ones, it seems like I may need to add some things; [...]

Book Reviews: Warbreaker and Elantris

onefinemess | July 5, 2009

Warbreaker
by: Brandon Sanderson
His latest, although evidently it was written a while ago, or something.  He also released early drafts of it on the web for free.  I probably should have checked them out, to see more about how his process went but I hate reading books on computer.
So. Yeah this was good, it took me [...]