The Writer - 10.2019

writermag.com • The Writer | 19 acters have desires just like a protagonist, and when those desires conflict with others, or if ...

B y^ Jack (^) S m it h BUT WHAT IF PRO TIPS FOR WRITING (AND PUBLISHING) SPECULATIVE FICTION. ...

writermag.com • The Writer | 21 A ll fiction is speculative to some extent, posing a “what-if ” question, which serves as the pr ...

22 | The Writer • October 2019 Perhaps a science fiction expert could give us a defini- tive answer. “One answer, per science fi ...

writermag.com • The Writer | 23 ADRIANNE FINLAY: “Speculative stories, at their best, offer up a critique, and ultimately a subv ...

24 | The Writer • October 2019 LAURIE MCLEAN, Fuse Literary: “Because fully fleshed magical sys- tems and plausible science-base ...

writermag.com • The Writer | 25 society (there’s a lot to choose from), and expand that out to the future. It will soon become d ...

26 | The Writer • October 2019 HERE’S THE SCOOP ON ALL THE DIFFERENT SUBGENRES POPULATING THE LITERARY PUNK SCENE TODAY. BUT WHA ...

writermag.com • The Writer | 27 all started when Greg Shaw used the term punk in the April 1971 issue of Rolling Stone. The move ...

28 | The Writer • October 2019 the legitimacy of any particular punk sub-genre, so some eyebrow-raising gems like sandalpunk (pu ...

GREENPUNK Hogwarts is covered by a climate dome, and the students work on build- ing machines to scrub the atmosphere of the ext ...

30 | The Writer • October 2019  I N the fall of 2018, I partic- ipated in a writing workshop at a liberal arts college where one ...

writermag.com • The Writer | 31 When Ramadan found himself writing about lesbian Syrian women while working on The Clothesline S ...

UNDERSTANDING AND CREATING ADS FOR YOUR BOOK ON AMAZON AND FACEBOOK. BY KERRIE FLANAGAN SALES Dmytro Balkhovitin/Shutterstock ...

writermag.com • The Writer | 33 AMAZON ADVERTISING Love it or hate it, Amazon is the largest online retailer in the world, with ...

34 | The Writer • October 2019 settings, and related hobbies, or a list of movies similar to your book. (For a romance novel sta ...

writermag.com • The Writer | 35 FACEBOOK ADVERTISING Facebook has over 2 billion users worldwide, making it a great platform to ...

36 | The Writer • October 2019 books. Creating effective ads is one important piece of a successful mar- keting plan. Alcorn say ...

writermag.com • The Writer | 37 different choices, and you pick the ones that work best for your purposes. If you wrote an outdo ...

38 | The Writer • October 2019 LITERARY SPOTLIGHT BY MELISSA HART INSIDE LITERARY MAGAZINES J ames McNulty, co-founder of the li ...