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‘Past events can be changed but one must be careful of how one does it because it’ll impact on the rest of one’s life.’—Dáire Quin, Modify your Destiny if you Must, 2003 Wide Awake Asleep No one saw Julie’s car … Continue reading
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For this article I would like to discuss why we fantasy and sci-fi authors build worlds opposed to how. Several of my friends and I have agreed on this in some form or another on blog, Facebook posts, and tweets. It is a lot of laughs, but in all seriousness, it points to the underlying roots of why fantasy and as sci-fi exists and why we enjoy creating and consuming it.
In a nutshell these are the reasons:
Everything always seems the best in the fantasy world as opposed to the real world, doesn’t it?
We also create fantasy to make our own rules and/or to break the rules of the real world. We create fantasy worlds within the real world or we go to another place entirely. I like to do both essentially and within the same story. Hiding the hidden world from the real world is just awesome fun! However, we must abide by our own rules. They shouldn’t suck as much since we made them right? The can’t-do’s we don’t like don’t exist do they?
It’s almost painful to get closer to the real world—believe me I know. I recently wrote a non-fiction book, The Newbie Author’s Survival Guide, and it was quite an adjustment! You can’t get much more real-world than non-fiction! To go even further, I normally write for middle-grade and young adults, so this non-fiction is for adults. I don’t think any seventh graders need to learn how to market their books or need to know book marketing survival skills. Luckily I have a friend who is a great non-fiction author to help me out to make sure I wasn’t returning to the fantasy world!
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The Indians and the Crackedskulls are locked in the turmoil of war and presently in a stalemate.
Her enemies, Raven and Bloodhawk, have come up with a scheme to up the ante and break the stalemate into their favor.
Neiko later finds out that a land she thought she had only imagined is actually real and contains a legendary and otherworldly evil within it. Not only that, she becomes trapped there and must escape the world, the people within it, and the sinister evil within.
Neiko must find her way back home and turn the tables on her enemies. Can she come back home and escape the evil that seeks to claim her?
A.K. Taylor is a YA fantasy/science fiction adventure writer who has been writing since age 16.
Taylor also draws her characters and designs her covers and illustrations which she also began at 16.
Other books by A.K Taylor include a non-fiction: The Newbie Author’s Survival Guide, and coming soon the second book to Neiko’s Five Land Adventure – Escape from Ancient Egypt is coming soon!
It’s the age-old question of whether
institutionalized credit trumps raw talent. Before you begin chomping at the
bit to defend either direction, I have to come clean and say that there are
opportunities for writers of all education backgrounds, which makes the title a
bit of a trick question.
Has anyone seen the potential of marketing via Pinterest? I have. It’s visual and it’s taking off very quickly. I can go anywhere on the web and “Pin It” (grab) a picture and stick it to a board, along with a short description, then I can Tweet, FB, LinkedIn the link as normal and when people click on the picture they are taken STRAIGHT TO THE PURCHASE PAGE of your book.
Never more is a book cover so important.
Want to be included? Email me your book’s purchase link and its genre. Here’s the Book Junkies link in full: http://pinterest.com/BookJunkies/
Update: Success! Authors have informed me sales have picked up since they’ve added their book on Book Junkies, and that to me, is success. It may have happened anyway, who knows? But it’s good to know there is a library for our growing community and it’s being viewed!