(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 requirements go significantly beyond what a beta reader does. A beta reader reads an unpublished manuscript and tells the author […]
(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, but a live demonstration of exactly why this show matters. Starfleet Academy isn’t perfect. No first […]
(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 the coaching calls. You’re excited. You’re ready to publish your first book and start building that […]
Generally speaking, I don’t do bizarre worlds. That doesn’t mean I don’t appreciate worlds that are carried through space by a turtle, or whose inhabitants are giant insects. Occasionally, I even create a bizarre setting for an individual short story. My main secondary world, though, is very much in the “exactly like ours except forContinue reading “Errish — A Vertical City”
I got caught up in travels and family stuff, so this is nearly a month late–but that’s not too late to check the story out!So, while I was traveling to Michigan, the fifth and final novella of the Moth Plateau series came out!This is the story of…
I have an octalogy of novels to write, only one of which is actually finished. I have a list of “stories with beginnings” that stretches to five pages. It’s obvious I’m not going to take on another major project. Except that, of course, I did. That Was a Start It wasn’t planned. I do aContinue reading “This Thing Just Keeps Growing”