Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Genres Bending, Blending, and Mixing
In the speculative fiction genre, a perpetual battle wages between science fiction and fantasy. Just Google “difference between science fiction and fantasy” and you’ll find 100 different answers. Even the ancient Greeks struggled with defining genre, and they essentially invented it! The Speculative Fiction Spectrum I’ve been mulling over how my novels fit into the…
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My Future Publishing Path
With so much discussion in the blogosphere about self-publishing versus traditional publishing, I’ve been doing a lot of reading just to keep up. My conclusion is that a hybrid model is the path with the greatest reward for the fiction author. It also requires a great deal of work. What do I mean by hybrid?…
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Does She Need a Valentine?
Today, I’m playing host to part of the Bloody Valentine Blog Hop. Blog hops allow various bloggers to write about similar topics and then link amongst themselves. You can hop to the other participants’ blogs at the end of this post. Will They or Won’t They? One of my biggest pet peeves in fiction —…
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