K.Childs

Okay so today's blog is actually inspired by a cute little story from about twenty minutes ago. I had to leave the house because I have been harbouring a mad-crazy need for egg sandwiches for a few days now and unable to get a fix. Thus, with a small adventure, I found myself exitting the local Woolies, my loot in hand, when I noticed and happened to catch a snippet of a conversation between two kids: The kids were about 11-13ish. Both boys were dressed in that sort of gangsta imitation that kids around that age like, especially the 'tough' kids. They had scooters and the opening snippet of conversation I caught was 'well he's a shit...' (For American reader's that is occa for 'punk ass bitch' ) The slightly older looking of the two dropped his soft-drink can on the ground and scooted off, sprouting a line that made me laugh almost as soon as it was out of his mouth, "Like, totally, yeah, y'know...."  If there's anything that...

Okay, first, 20 posts is actually pretty impressive for me, I'd like to take a second to whistle in appreciation of this many posts. So, without more tithering about, today's topic is about my pro-tips. My pearl-necklace of wisdom. I'm not going to talk about self-publishing in this. Self-publishing diverges from traditional publishing in step 2 of my 3 stage tips. Self-pub has just as many ups and downs and lefts and rights as traditional publishing. I see them both as pretty equal in terms of difficulty setting, but for different stages. This should go without saying, but these tips are based on my style, my experience and my understanding. Your play-through may vary. When it comes to the publishing industry, the 'gate' as it were, seems a lot more daunting than it actually is. 1. The act of writing - Challenge yourself. Don't cop-out the easy solutions to establishing love interests. - Finish. You can't be rejected if your novel isn't fin...

So today I'm going to be covering 4 niches of Speculative fiction: Steampunk, Gaslamp, LitRPG and GameLit. Three of these are Sci-Fi, which may surprise anyone who's seen my bookshelf because I have less than 10 sci-fi books on my shelf. A note on my definitions and explanations. Before I continue, I feel a strong need to disclaimer that these are my own opinions and definitions. Some fans have extremely strict and narrow realms of what does and does not fit their niche, others are much broader.  There is no faster way to start a fight in a niche than to state your opinion on what constitutes that niche. Please keep in mind, I've read extensively in these four niches, I've written in 3 of them, I would consider myself at least adept to speak of these things but your own definition may vary, and we're allowed to dissent. A note on Niche. Niche genre seems to be the offspring of two literary conventions meeting and having a strange hybrid progeny for the ...