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Young's Ten Tips

August 21, 2016 by James Young 6 Comments

Susanne Lambdin and I do a regular panel we call “Strategy and Tactics of Novel Writing.”  Inevitably we figure some poor sods come in thinking we’re going to talk military stuff.  For you folks, we are sorry.  For everyone else, don’t be fooled–we really do talk about how to write a novel.  We usually start […]

Filed Under: Con(vention) Life, Writing Business Tagged With: Sharing, Writing

On Being A Shaman

August 18, 2016 by James Young Leave a Comment

So several of my friends accuse me regularly of writing what they call “crack fic.”  Sometimes this is an exercise to shut the muses up temporarily, as there’s a riot going on while I’m trying to edit.  Other times, someone will just throw me a prompt and it’s “Hi yo, Silver, away…”As always, all things […]

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B-Sides and Outtakes (Formerly “I Can’t Believe I Wrote That”)

August 9, 2016 by James Young 4 Comments

[Edit] So back in 2016, I decided to have a regular entry called “I Can’t Believe I Wrote That” in addition to my Writing Tips and Random Confessions. As part of the revamping of this website, I decided to just mere this with “B-Sides and Outtakes” in order to simplify folks finding things to read. […]

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Random Confession

August 5, 2016 by James Young 1 Comment

So, every so often I will reveal something about myself my readers may not otherwise know.  Today’s confession:  I like ABBA.  I mean, not like “Commander Lewis, OMG the only thing I have on Mars is disco!”-level, but I am an unabashed fan.   [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUrzicaiRLU&w=420&h=315]   The better half, fellow author Anita C. Young […]

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Favorite Button

November 2, 2014 by James Young Leave a Comment

Apparently Amazon has now added “Favorite” button to author pages.  Feel free to go to my author page and click “Favorite” to receive a notification of every time I release a new book.  Great way to stay informed!

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