Our panel project, A Drift of Quills, is still in its infant stages, but I look forward to our posts on the first Fridays of the month. My fellow Quills are fun to work with, and I love seeing what responses each of them have to the topics we’ve selected. I hope you do, too! Without further ado… C.M.J. WALLACE Author of The Rift Series (beginning with Sing the Midnight Stars) C.M.J.’s Website For this month’s topic, we decided to identify one traditionally published and one indie-published fantasy novel that we enjoyed and explain why. My fellow Quillers won’t know this […]
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Content Rating: What the Bleep?!
It’s panel time! Today, A Drift of Quills is focusing its attention on content ratings. Not on the ratings of our works by readers, but of our works for readers. These ratings, adopted from the motion picture industry, differ by country, but we’ll be referencing the current—as of 2013—U.S. system. (See more at Wiki’s Motion Picture Rating System and the Motion Picture Association of America (What Each Rating Means). What are our positions, or what difficulties might we have writing things rated beyond a PG-13? Do we write such things? Why or why not? PATRICIA REDING Author of […]
Peer Reviews: Fair Or Foul?
Peer reviews—authors reviewing authors—are the subject of frequent and heated debate. I’m so pleased to bring to you today the first episode of a new panel discussion that will be featured on the first Friday of every month. We are fantasy writers, and we’ll be discussing the industry and our experiences, and we plan to throw in some fun things as well. Our first topic? Peer reviews. (You guessed that, didn’t you?) Enjoy! KRISTIE KIESSLING Author of the short story, Sanguis Dei and a poetry collection, Light and Dark Kristie’s Blog The peer review. Just the words are frightening. They should be. […]