#AmWriting #SaturdayStorytime: AI Get No Satisfaction
#SFFReaders #SFFWriters #WritingCommunity (Beth Turnage Blog) It was a perfectly lovely day in Colorado. There was no rain. The temperature was a balmy 80 degrees. No humidity, of course, but I, the AI who monitored weapons systems for...
#AmWriting—Let’s Tell a Story #SaturdayStorytime
(Beth Turnage Blog) Years ago, Chuck Wending would sponsor a weekly storytelling contest on his blog Terrible Minds, based on prompts he posted, which was a lot of fun. Then he gave it up. Awww. Now that I have my aggregatory SFFBloggers...
A peek at The Fall of the City of Bells
As announced last week, The Fall of the City of Bells is out now. I wanted to tell a bit more behind the scenes stuff and give a glimpse of the poetry of the story.About eleven years ago, I jotted down on a notecard the idea of a magic...
It’s Alive! SFF Bloggers Aggregator Posting On Four Platforms
(Beth Turnage Blog) A SAD TALE: Years ago, I started SFF Bloggers.com, an aggregator of science fiction and fantasy blogs. I had other aggregators for different topics, and one in particular got a respectable number of views. Why...
How to Create a World
Fantasy authors get to do something that few other genres offer. We get to create our own world. There are probably as many ways of doing it as there are fantasy authors, but there are certain common questions that are worth considering before you launch into your epic task....
Warning! Sarcasm Levels High—AI Detects Boomer Need Help
(Beth Turnage Blog) Professor Halloran stood before the class and adjusted the display behind him. “HTML was not technically a programming language. It was a markup language. Notice the paired opening and closing...
The Fall of the City of Bells is out now!
My novella in verse The Fall of the City of Bells is starting to show up in various online bookstores. I'm thrilled to have this available to read, and I adore the cover art made for it by Island of Wak-Wak.(Note, Island of Wak-Wak is also the pu......
No! Beta Readers are NOT Developmental Editors
(Beth Turnage Blog) When You Want a Beta Reader to Be a Developmental Editor Lately, browsing through Upwork job listings drives me nuts. My feed is full of requests for “beta readers,” though the job...
Starfleet Academy and the Comments That Proved the Point
(Beth Turnage Blog) When Quora decided to drop my take on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy into 13,000 inboxes, I expected disagreement. I did not expect a case study. Because that’s what the comment section became—not a debate about storytelling,...
The Real Cost of Self-Publishing: Beyond the Course Fee
(Beth Turnage Blog) Part 2 of 6: The Truth About Self-Publishing Programs Read Part 1: The $20,000 Passive Income Lie: What Publishing Gurus Don’t Tell You You’ve paid $2,000 for the course. You’ve watched the training videos. You’ve attended...