AUTHOR'S ROUNDTABLE - SETTING THE STAGE!

This week, I once again join Sean Taylor's Author Roundtable discussion on his Bad Girls, Good Guys, and Two-Fisted Action blog. A great topic this week as e discuss setting, in particular choosing a city where we set our books. As usual, Sean gathered input from horror, action, comic book, romance, etc. writers for this one because each writer slices this topic a bit differently.

You can check it out at https://seanhtaylor.blogspot.com/2017/11/my-city-or-your-city-choosing-and.html

I'd love to hear your thoughts on setting so please leave a comment on Sean's blog or here.

Bobby

BOBBY NASH AND SEAN TAYLOR BRING A MACHETE TO A BLOG POST!

I joined the Author Round Table discussion called "Forget the Scissors, I Need a Machete!" on Sean Taylor's Bad Girls, Good Guys, and Two-Fisted Action blog this week.

No. Not this Machete.

For this week's writer roundtable, we're going to talk about cutting words -- and not just a word here and there but a significant amount of them. Here's the scenario... You finish your latest novel or novella, but you're WAY over the word count. 

WAY, WAY OVER.

How do you get it back to the side your editor wants?
What are your techniques for serious trimming on your work?

Sean asked and a panel of fantastic authors answered. Give it a read at HERE.

Thanks, Sean. I always have a blast visiting you blog.

Bobby

NO WRITER IS AN ISLAND...

I would love to write on the beach.

No Writer is an island. I joined Sean Taylor's Good Girls, Bad Guys, and Two-Fisted Action Blog to talk about the mentors and influencers that helped shape me into the neurotic mess of a writer I am today. Read the full blog with my and other authors responses here.

Every writer can look back to someone who either inspired him or her to start or to stick with it. With Mother's Day all around us, and folks still in a mood to express thanks to those someones who helped make us who we are, let's keep it going this week by honoring those folks who inspired us to write and to write better.

A big thank you to all those who pushed, encouraged, supported, and kicked me int he ass when I needed it.

Bobby

WRITERS READ-- OR DO THEY?

Bobby Nash reads

I joined a large group of writers on Sean Taylor's Author Roundtable segment at his Bad Girls, Good Guys, and Two-Fisted Action blog. This week's topic asks the question, do working writers still have time to read?

From the site?
It's said over and over again... Writers read. But, just how true is it? We went to a group of published authors and asked them to get real about just how often they pick up a book and read (and how and when they do that).

This week's questions:

Stephen King reads

How often do you actually read? (Not wish you read, or would like to have readers think you read, but actually, truly read.) How often do you read a book, as opposed to smaller options like newspapers or magazines?
Where and how do you do most of your reading? Do you set aside time for a long read before bed, for example? Or do you snag the time available with an e-book while taking a kid to the dentist or on a break from a day job?

What percentage of your reading is printed books? What percentage is using digital formats? Do find having options like digital give you more opportunities to indulge in reading?

You can read all of the answers here.

WHAT YEAR IS IT AGAIN?

I joined Sean Taylor's Writer's Roundtable discussion again this week. This time around we're talking about favorite time periods to write.

"My preference is to do stories set in modern times so I can explore the world outside my window." -- Bobby Nash

This week's Writer Roundtable is another from the open call for ideas and topics. With many of the writers I know and love being period writers, this one really grabbed my attention when a reader suggested it. So keep those suggestions coming and we'll keep sending them to the roundtable for the peanut gallery to respond to. 

Read the full article here.

TIPS FOR WRITING TO WORD COUNTS!

I joined the writer's roundtable at Sean Taylor's Bad Girls, Good Guys, and Two-Fisted Action Blog. Give it a look at here. 

This week's topic is Tips for Writing to Word Counts.

Check it out.

SCI FI SUMMER WRAP UP

Bobby Nash at the Author's Roundtable Panel at Sci Fi Summer Con 2014

Sci Fi Summer Program Cover
Art: Peter Cutler

I was a guest at Sci Fi Summer Con in Atlanta, Georgia on Saturday, June 14th, 2014. This show is the type referred to as a relaxi-con because it is very laid back and geared more toward hanging out and enjoying the company of other like-minded fandoms. Sci Fi Summer has a small dealer’s room, artist alley, game room, and panels. It’s a great place to hang out and have a relaxing weekend.

Sci Fi Summer is a 3 day con, but I was only able to attend on Saturday due to my workload. I rode to the event with my Earth Station One co-host, Mike Gordon on Saturday. Surprisingly, the traffic wasn’t bad… until we were about a mile or two from our exit when interstate 285 came to a halt. Good thing we knew a back way in. Once there, we checked in and made the rounds, saying hello to friends Java from The Forgotten Doctor, Robert and Karen Ray, Robert Jeffrey, Peter Cutler, Randy Bishop, Christina Barber, and Timothy Price.

Timothy Price and Bobby Nash

I was scheduled for two panels on Saturday.
12 pm - Authors Roundtable (Panel Rm 2)
1 pm - Comix Roundtable (Panel Rm 2)

Funny story. Kinda. On the way to the noon panel, we learned that the door was locked. No problem. I contacted the hotel management and we discovered that the one key (yes. They only had 1 key) to this particular conference room had accidentally gone home with someone and they couldn’t get the door open. Eventually, maintenance came with a plan to take the door down so we could get inside. I guess

Dealer's Room

opening another room wasn’t an option. I don’t know. They removed the pics, but the door was still jammed. That, of course, was the time the key returned so we had to wait for them to put the door back together so it could be unlocked and opened.

During the wait, I basically held the panel in the hallway, answering questions about writing, marketing, you name it. When the door was finally opened at 12:45, we moved it inside the room. We had a small audience, but they had some good questions. No one showed for the comic panel. Joined by Big In Japan author Timothy Price, we continued on with the author panel until 2 p.m. It was fun.

Robert Jeffrey

The rest of the day was spent walking around and chatting with folks, mostly hanging in artist alley. It was a fun, relaxing day spent with friends. You can’t get better than that.

Thanks to Chris Jones for inviting me out to the con.

It was fun.

Bobby

Learn more about Sci Fi Summer here and don’t forget to like them on Facebook and Twitter.

Please forgive the crappy photos from my camera phone.
I really miss my good camera that I broke a month or so ago at another convention.
-BN

Randy Bishop

Timothy Price and Bobby Nash

Bobby's badge

Sci Fi Summer Con

Timothy Price is Big In Japan

Bobby Nash at the Author Roundtable

BOBBY’S SCI FI SUMMER PANEL SCHEDULE

I’ll be at Sci Fi Summer Con on Saturday, June 13th to do a few panels and walk around and talk to folks. I will have books with me, just no permanent table location.

Here are the panels I’ll be on during the con on Saturday:
12 PM - AUTHORS ROUNDTABLE (PANEL RM 2)
1 PM - COMIX ROUNDTABLE (PANEL RM 2)

Learn more about Sci Fi Summer here and like them on Facebook.

See you there.

Bobby

EW... I STEPPED ON A LITERARY EASTER EGG!

Life In The Faster Lane

Our very own Bobby Nash joined the roundtable conversation over at Sean Taylor’s Bad Girls, Good Guys, and Two-Fisted Action Blog. This week’s topic is Filling Your Basket With Literary Easter Eggs and you can read it here.

This week's roundtable is a seasonal one (as suggested by my friend Lee Houston Jr.) -- Easter Eggs. You know the little bonuses that companies put on DVD as hidden extras, but what about the fun Easter Eggs we hide in our writing?

What Easter eggs (if any) have you inserted into your works?

To find out how Bobby and a host of other extremely talented writers answered this question, and more, you can read it here.

IS WRITING REWRITING? YOU BE THE JUDGE.

Finally, a definition of writer's block I buy.

I joined in the conversation on the "Writing is rewriting" discussion on Sean Taylor’s blog.


Is Writing Really Re-Writing? (A Roundtable)

The axiom states that "Writing is rewriting" -- well, in your experience, is it really? Or is it the great lie that writing teachers and books about writing try to fool us with?

Is it possible to get it right the first time and require little to no really editing other than grammar and spelling from your draft version?

To get the skinny, we checked in with a group of tenured and new writers, and writers of both genre fiction and literary fiction, short stories and novels, poetry and comic book scripts.

In 3... 2... 1... Go!

Check it the discussion at http://seanhtaylor.blogspot.com/2013/02/is-writing-really-re-writing-roundtable.html