Tag: John Scalzi

• Disaster Reading for Disastrous Times

  I’m stuck at home bored, like almost everyone else, so I thought I’d indulge in my favorite pastime and put together some reading lists! I see a lot of lists like this one on Electric Literature and Book Riot — some of them really good, some of them just frankly a hodgepodge of books the […]

  Shannon Turlington

  April 7, 2020

  Notebook, Reading

  Alexandra Oliva, Apocalypse, Ariel Djanikian, Ben H Winters, Books, China Mieville, Disasters, Jeff VanderMeer, John Joseph Adams, John Lanchester, John Scalzi, Max Barry, Nathaniel Rich, Reading list

• For all the writers out there… Links!

  Classic story structures and what they can teach us about novel plotting. Infographic: The key book publishing paths. How writer’s workshops can be hostile, by Pulitzer Prize winner Viet Thanh Nguyen. From Chuck Wendig, a “hot steaming sack of business advice” for writers. John Scalzi explains the concept of the “brain eater,” a danger lurking […]

  Shannon Turlington

  May 24, 2017

  Notebook

  Brain eater, business advice, Chuck Wendig, infographics, John Scalzi, Links, plot, Publishing, Story structures, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Writers workshops, Writing

• Reading Journal: Beginning of April

  It’s been over a month since I’ve posted a reading journal update. Most of my reading has lately not-so-inspiring–although I did enjoy reading Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor so much that I wrote a rather long response to it. Another post-apocalyptic book I enjoyed was Far North by Marcel Theroux. It is set in post-climate change Siberia and […]

  Shannon Turlington

  April 7, 2016

  Reading

  A Head Full of Ghosts, Alexandra Sokoloff, Bad Wizard, Benjamin Percy, Far North, Horror, Horror by women, HP Lovecraft, James Maxey, John Scalzi, Kathe Koja, Literary homages, Lock In, Marcel Theroux, New fiction, NNedi Okorafor, Novellas, Paul Tremblay, Post-apocalyptic fiction, Reading, Scott Hawkins, The Ballad of Black Tom, The Cipher, The Dead Lands, The Horror at Red Hook, The Library at Mount Char, The Unseen, Victor LaValle, Who Fears Death

• Writing for love or money? They aren’t mutually exclusive

  Here are some follow-up thoughts on my post about why writers should not write for free. Some readers may be wondering if I am saying that you should never write anything without getting paid for it. That actually is not what I’m saying at all, but let me clarify. What if you just really love […]

  Shannon Turlington

  July 30, 2009

  Notebook

  John Scalzi, Publishing, Writers, Writing