Writing Unleashed with Laura M. Harkins

News spbkchat.blogspot.com Sci-Fi Reacquainting Us With Our Own Sexuality Science fiction authors employ humans characters as well as aliens and intelligent machines in their stories. Kyle Munkittrick discusses the wide acceptance of interracial and interspecies love and sexual relationships found in science fiction and how it will break down the sexual barriers in our own lives in the future. Do you believe fiction will break down the sexual barriers in our world?     flickr.com Neil Gaiman Called a Thief by Congressman Republican Leader of the Minnesota House of Representatives, Matt Dean, urged by his mother, apologized to Neil Gaiman for name-calling . Gaiman received $45,000 for a speaking engagement. Dean felt the payment of $45,000 to Gaiman for a speaking engagement was exorbitant and labeled him a thief. Do you think $45,000 is an excessive amount to pay a superstar author for a speaking engagement? weeklyworldnews.com Mermaids Splashing Onto the ...

studiokatdesigns.blogspot.com News Winding down from last night’s love high and wine buzz, I thought some positive literary news would keep you moving through the week, well, at least until Wednesday.  No bankrupt bookstores and E-reader sales today. The Author Bio Are you struggling to decide what to include in your author’s bio?  Edan Lepucki debates whether an author should stick with their academic and literary accomplishments or include life experiences in her article “MFA Grads and Former Acrobats: Approaches to the Author Bio” .  She includes several “out-of-the-box” author bios. Including life experiences portrays a more human author as opposed to just presenting the two-dimensional list of education and publication credentials.  A sex worker generates more intrigue for me than a graduate from Columbia’s MFA program.  It gives aspiring authors encouragement and confidence to know they don’t need an expensive education to write something wor...