Some people think writing fiction is easy, because you just make it up, right?
Not if you want it to make sense. Even the made-up parts have to be grounded in physical and emotional reality, and that requires thinking through the details - and sometimes research.
As a writer, I want the reader to identify with the characters and imagine ...
We've started recording the audiobook version of Traynor's Education at Sonic Pathways in Salt Lake. My son David Blackmer (a corporate marketing director with some acting experience) is having fun with this, since his usual audience is his daughter, who also makes him "do voices" for the different characters in a story. The "Foreign ...
Traynor's World™ is partly in the steampunk tradition, because it's a world colonized from Earth that lost its higher tech and is just now getting back to the age of steam and electrics but has aspirations to recover "older" advanced science. So, lots of room for invention, and there's a scramble for power and advantage, as in the days of the ...
Since the paperback version of Book 1, Traynor's Education went up on Amazon, I've been asked how the idea for a young adult series came about. It started with the imaginary map (I always made up maps and collected historical atlases) and storytelling to our kids and grandkids over the years. Most of the stories were in today's world, but in ...
