Category Archives: Fiction

3 Freelance Fiction Writing Jobs to Explore

By on February 18th, 2013

When we talk about freelance writing jobs, we usually focus on nonfiction writing like magazine features or business documents. We talk about that side of freelance writing more for two reasons. First, it’s where most of the jobs are. It’s also where most of the money will come from for the bulk of us. But there’s another side of freelance writing — writing fiction on a freelance basis. If freelance fiction writing is something you want to pursue, here are three freelance writing job sources you should look into. Literary Journals These are publications (in print, and in more recent …

The Ethics of Character Blogs to Promote Your Books

By on July 28th, 2008

For one of the books I’m working on, I’ve thought about launching a character blog before I either pitch to publishers or decide to self-publish. I’d like to explore the potential ethical issues of a character blog and see what others here think about them. What is a Character Blog? A character blog is a blog authored by a fictional character – in this case, a character from a book. In some cases, the readers aren’t told publicly on the site that the author is a fictional character, and that the blog posts deal with fictional situations. In other cases, …