Marcus Trower. Editor. Writer. Friend. Amazing man.

This post originally ran in 2013. In restoring and updating my blog, I pulled it from its original chronological spot to put it here, so that I could add some new, rather sad, updates.

Melissa Olsen is a brilliant writer of Urban fantasy, best known for her Scarlet Bernard series. We're both 47North alums and have been friends for years. We did a blog swap in which she interviewed me and I interviewed her. Here's her interviewing me. I'll have my reciprocal interview of her on this blog soon. In the meantime, go read some of her books. I promised her sales, damnit! Go forth and buy her books, here

Anne Charnok is a science fiction author, winner of the 2018 Arthur C. Clarke Award, nominated for a plethora of other awards, and fellow 47North publishing alum. She was kind enough to give me a guest post on her blog back in 2014. The theme of the post was writing serial fiction.

Are you an ugly reviewer? 

I’m not asking if you are an unattractive person that writes reviews. I am asking if you’re the kind of person who takes a star away from your Amazon.com review of a novel because the first few words of every chapter are capitalized. Or because you don’t like receiving a novel in episodes even though you bought a serial. Or maybe because you don’t like a political statement the author made in an interview once.