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,)Â 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. Â Â 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. Â 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...
