When Does Researching Your Fiction Do More Harm Than Good?
Dean Wesley Smith, author of over 90 novels, has been publishing an irreverent, thought-provoking series about writing over at his blog, called “Killing The Sacred Cows Of Publishing.” Here’s one of the entries, about doing research before writing a novel. Researching for a novel is one of what I call the half-truth myths. Yet I…
Books & Comics
Dean Wesley Smith
Australia’s Answer To Red Dawn, Coming In September
When Iron Man opened in Australia, it was preceded by a new movie trailer featuring nubile vacationing teens, beautiful landscapes… and attacking bombers. The apocalypse has come to Australia, courtesy of Pirates Of The Caribbean’s Stuart Beattie. It’s the trailer for a new movie, Tomorrow When The War Began, based on the novel by John…
Movies
Sam Timmins