NovelScribe Best Book Cover Awards of 2012
I’m pleased to announce that Karri Klawiter’s fantastic cover for A QUESTION OF WILL was voted the third best cover in Science Fiction in voting by NovelScribe.com’s visitors! Congrats to …
Author: Alex Albrinck
National Novel Writing Month
Am I the only one who’s done this? You decide you’d like to write a novel. You have a story idea in your head. Perhaps it’s pretty well-formed; perhaps you have only the vaguest of notions of what will happen …
Upcoming Writing Schedule
You’ve likely noticed the word count trackers located to the right-hand side of the blog, which I’m using to track my past, present, and future writing and editing endeavors. I wanted to explain the trackers, the color scheme I’m using …
One Month
Numbers fascinate me. I like to figure out ways to manipulate them to tell stories, much as I try to do with words. I am a compulsive user of spreadsheets for this reason. As such, it makes perfect sense that …
The Best Way To Help Your Favorite Authors
As an avid reader, I enjoy finding the works of new authors, and discovering new stories to read. Alas, it can be difficult to do so. The advertising major publishers purchase is directed towards existing, established big-name authors. We all …
The First Two Weeks
On September 21st, 2012, I completed my final compilation of my book into a Kindle .mobi file using Scrivener, filled out a simple two page form on Amazon, and submitted my first novel for publication. By the time I woke …
Fill The Shelves
If I had to pick a characteristic I consistently admire in others, it’s the characteristic of taking action to fix what’s broken. Far too many of us — and I’m as guilty as anyone else — see something that’s not …
A QUESTION OF WILL – Available Now at Amazon.com
My first novel is now available from Amazon.com. You can find the book by clicking here. I hope you enjoy it!
Writing A Novel – The Process
I’ve always enjoyed reading about the processes authors use for creating their work. So, for anyone with a similar interest, I thought I’d document mine. Roughly speaking, there are two major camps. One group creates detailed outlines of the many …
Cover Art Complete!
This looks fantastic! The difference between someone like me who would try to put something together with PowerPoint that any sane person would skip right past and something created by a person with actual talent is, well, mind-blowing. I love …