With my third novel releasing tomorrow (December 29, 2020) I have had cause to think on how it differs from the release of my first book, two and a half years ago. I though I would share some of those thoughts, in case they might be useful to other authors as they publish, or of...

I want to talk about big edits on a short timeline and one possible way to think about them. As someone with an edit to do on a novel that’s due on December 9th, I’ve been thinking about this a lot, and I thought it might be useful to share some of that. A lot...

I had a couple of ideas rattling around in my head after reading 156 Pitch Wars submissions and requesting 16 partials and 5 full manuscripts. I didn’t read all those pages, but I read enough to see some patterns. I turned to the internet to see which topic held the most interest, and the vote...

Something I’ve seen people talking about on the #Pitchwars hashtag as people digest mentor wish lists is the notion of being ready to make “big changes” to your manuscript. I think for some people, that might be causing some angst. I even saw one person say that mentors were encouraged to ask for big changes...

Hi. I’m Michael Mammay, and my Co-Mentor AR Lucas and I are mentoring Pitch Wars in the adult category. We’ll be looking for science fiction and fantasy only, so if that doesn’t apply to you and you want to move on, good luck to you in your further search. If it does apply, read on...

If you have been around the Pitch Wars community for a few years, you may remember that I was a mentor for three years, from 2016 to 2018. I co-mentored with Dan Koboldt. Before that, I was a 2015 mentee with my novel PLANETSIDE. If you follow me at all, you’ve probably heard of that...

I started thinking about this when author and friend Craig Alanson replied to a tweet of mine. The tweet was me responding to a tweet by Gareth Powell’s book EMBERS OF WAR. I saw it on sale, have been wanting to read it, so I went to Amazon to purchase it for my kindle (only...

With the end of the (online) school year, I transitioned out of my job teaching English and into writing full time. I’ve been doing that for about a month now, and I thought I’d reflect a little bit on how it’s going. 1. Making my copy edit deadline was a lot easier than it used...

In case you missed it, #PublishingPaidMe has been going around writer twitter for the last day or two. Let me say that nothing in this post is to detract from that. That hashtag was so that people (Black writers) could see the disparity in advances across the industry. Please don’t let anything you read here...

This is something I wrote a year or two ago but never did anything with before. I entered it in a contest, and now you can read “The Crossroads” for free here: https://theforge.defence.gov.au/crossroads It’s a short military SF piece with a lighter side to it. It also has a lot of swearing, so if that...