I must have been about eight years old. Our neighbor, a grandmotherly type whose children had all grown up, was cleaning out her garage and brought over a box of books, mostly Whitman Classics hardcovers. I could have them if I wanted them, she told me. I wasn’t a big reader at eight, but it…
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UPDATE: The Girl at the End of the World has now been released and is available in ebook and paperback formats at Amazon. Continuing with the end-of-the-world theme here in preparation for the upcoming release of my new book. I’ve settled on a title, by the way. It’s The Girl at the End of the…
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Whenever it’s time to start talking about the art of revision with my college writing students, I usually begin by saying if they want to revise effectively they first need to put some distance between themselves and what they’ve drafted. Being too close to one’s material often causes a writer to see it for what…
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First off, let me say I’m sticking with the general term science fiction even though some of the things I write fall more accurately under the heading speculative fiction. Whatever. SF is generally the better known term, so I’ll stick with that for now. Let me also say that I didn’t always write science fiction.…
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In case you missed it, I’ve been running a giveaway of my science fiction novel, Take Back Tomorrow and it’s still available for one more day as a FREE download from Amazon.com. “Raymond Chandler meets Robert Heinlein in this fun and inventive crossover SF novel from Richard Levesque.”—J. Orr, Amazon Reviews What if all you…
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Take Back Tomorrow is available as a FREE download from Amazon.com. “Raymond Chandler meets Robert Heinlein in this fun and inventive crossover SF novel from Richard Levesque.”—J. Orr, Amazon Reviews What if all you had to do to make your dreams come true was violate the laws of the universe? That’s not just a philosophical…
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I thought it might be interesting for readers of Strictly Analog to get a sense of some of the locales that show up in the novel. Since I haven’t figured out how to travel into the future yet, all I can offer are current and past visions of Los Angeles and a bit of commentary…
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Well, I posted last Monday offering up 2 signed copies of my dystopian science fiction novel, Strictly Analog. To be entered into the giveaway, you need to read the posted sample of the novel and comment. So far, not a lot of entrants. You can see the rules and sample here. The giveaway ends at…
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I read a lot posts about marketing and selling books. For the most part, they say the same thing. To succeed, a writer (indie or otherwise) needs to: Blog Have a website or “landing page” for his/her book Use social media (Facebook, Twitter, Google+, etc.) Develop a “platform” Build connections with a community of readers…
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