I'm going to be interviewed by D. Scott Smith on Amazon Live today, November 4, 2021, to talk about Spark. You can watch it live or archived via these links: Streamyard link https://streamyard.com/bzppfqdbwd Amazon link to watch live or replay: https://amazon.com/live/broadcast/27256feb-401f-426e-92a9-a4eb9f05e71d?ref=social&tag=dennisscottsm-20&linkCode=ilv
I follow Newcomer’s blog. That’s what led me to this book. Check him out at josephdnewcomer.com His website tells us that El Camino Blue is “loosely based” on a journal he kept during the last four months of high school. I survived my teen years and don’t want to go…
Ender’s Game was the first book I read by Orson Scott Card http://www.hatrack.com. I read it when it first came out and was hooked by Card’s writing. It may be one in my top 10 of all time. Janne from SPARK was named after the AI in Ender's Game. A…
I had second thoughts about posting this. Some of the writing makes me cringe. I originally wrote the entire book in Third Person Omniscient - as told by the all-knowing, all-seeing narrator. It allowed me to do some simultaneous perspectives and foreshadowing that I enjoyed. My publisher didn't. She wanted…