by Justin Swapp | Jan 30, 2013 | Blog, Books |
Well, today is one of the highlights of my life. Not only have I written a novel that my beta readers seem to enjoy (still not sure how that happened), but I have been blessed to work with an absolutely fantastic artist in Arthur Wang (see www.ArthurWangArt.com,) on...
by Justin Swapp | Jan 22, 2013 | Blog
Chanté McCoy recently tagged me in The Next Big Thing blog hop. This is essentially a game authors play to create a network of blog posts that their readers can visit to learn about their existing writing, and future projects. In this particular blog hop, I’ll...
by Justin Swapp | Dec 11, 2012 | Blog
I recently heard about www.fiverr.com and thought I would experiment with some of the services offered for my books and stories. So, I started with my most recent work to hit the kindle library – Cigars for Sawyer. Check out the graphic that came back. What do...
by Justin Swapp | Nov 30, 2012 | Blog
Claudette Cruz, the editor for my upcoming middle grade fantasy novel, “The Magic Shop,” just posted a nice little review on the book. From an author’s perspective, she was great to work with. She took her work seriously, and gave me some fun ideas...
by Justin Swapp | Nov 3, 2012 | Blog, Interviews, writing
I was recently interviewed among a handful of other Crimson Pact Authors. I’ve included the interview below, but if you’d like, you can visit the original page on AlliterationInk’s site here. Roundtable interview with ten of the Crimson Pact...
by Justin Swapp | Oct 27, 2012 | Blog
I wanted to give you a quick update about my first finished novel, The Magic Shop. I had finished a draft of The Magic Shop a month or two ago, and I had been revising it. Finally I decided I had gotten it as far along as I could without someone else with ice in her...
by Justin Swapp | Sep 9, 2012 | Blog, Story Structure, videos, writing |
At one point, this notion was a revelation to me. When I first started writing, I didn’t know the difference between a discovery writer, and an outliner. That is because I just sat down and tried to write. Only later did I discover that by being aware of your...
by Justin Swapp | Sep 8, 2012 | Blog, Featured, Short Stories
Follow an unsuspecting foreign exchange student named Sloan Boyle as a seemingly innocent interaction with a stranger in a Spanish Cafe leads to a dangerous series of events, and a weighty discovery that threatens everything Sloan ever knew about this world, and his...
by Justin Swapp | Sep 8, 2012 | Blog, Story Structure, videos, writing
Another fantastic workshop from LTUE (Life the Univerise and Everything) from a few years ago. This one in particular really helped me get unstuck with my writing. I had written over 300 pages on a middle grade novel I was working on, and I was plain stuck. A friend...
by Justin Swapp | Sep 8, 2012 | Blog, Story Structure, videos, writing
How to Write a Story that RocksA few years ago I attended a fantastic workshop called How to Write a Story that Rocks at the Life the Universe and Everything (LTUE) writer’s symposium at Brigham Young University. I participated in what ended up being a wonderful...
