Writing – Page 10 – Stephen Aryan

My Fantasycon 2014 Experience

I’m back from my first Fantasycon in York which started out on Friday with some Austin Powers style car parking. I was staying at a very central Bed and Breakfast, which was lovely, and the owners kindly gave me a parking permit for the weekend. Brilliant, I thought. I could leave my car all weekend,Continue reading “My Fantasycon 2014 Experience”

How I Found an Agent – Part 2

As mentioned in Part 1, this is a history of how I found an agent and later a publisher. One of the reasons for writing this is to try and dispel the myth that continues to circulate that in order to succeed in getting published you need to have connections and friends in the business.Continue reading “How I Found an Agent – Part 2”

How I Found an Agent – Part 1

Sadly the myth continues to circulate far and wide around the internet that in order to get anywhere in publishing you need connections. You need to know people who can grease palms, open doors, give you the secret handshake that will get you an agent and then a publisher. This is complete and utter nonsense.Continue reading “How I Found an Agent – Part 1”

My Panels at Nine Worlds 2014

A short list of where I’ll be during Nine Worlds in a couple of weeks time. Between 10am and 1pm on all three days I’ll be keeping an eye on the Podcasting Track which I’m co-running with an old friend, Barry Nugent, from Geek Syndicate. Barry and I go way back, almost to the dawnContinue reading “My Panels at Nine Worlds 2014”

Summer Holiday

In a few days I’ll be off on my annual summer holiday for a much needed week of rest and relaxation in the sun. It will give me a chance to catch up on my reading (see previous for my list of books I’m taking away), my sleep and to recharge the batteries because whenContinue reading “Summer Holiday”

June General Update

This month seems to be about podcasting, more or less. For a few months I’ve been busy working away in secret with Barry from Geek Syndicate to plan and coordinate a podcast mini track at the forthcoming Nine Worlds event in London this August. Our panels will run from 10am to 1pm on all threeContinue reading “June General Update”

Blog Tour: Writers Blog Tour

Below is a post with a few questions and answers as part of a writers process blog chain going around the internet. I was nominated by Ruth Booth on her website and so at the bottom I’ve highlighted three more people who at some point in the future may post a similar blog. You getContinue reading “Blog Tour: Writers Blog Tour”

Power Up

I’m delighted to announce that Piper in Germany have picked up the rights to the Battlemage trilogy. This is fantastic news and I can’t wait to see the books being out there in other languages. I did study German in school at GCSE level, so although I won’t be able to read the whole thing,Continue reading “Power Up”

Stuck in the middle

I’ve not posted in a couple of weeks because I’ve been busy doing a number of different things. For the last few months I have been chipping away gradually on the first draft of book 2 in my fantasy trilogy. Progress has been steady, sometimes it flows, other times I’m distracted by all of theContinue reading “Stuck in the middle”

Comics are a medium not a genre

I thought this post was apt as Saturday 3rd May is Free Comic Book Day. A date where shops order a quantity of special comics which they then give away free. It generates a lot of business for them and it attracts a lot of people, some of whom will hopefully be new readers. SoContinue reading “Comics are a medium not a genre”