Nathan Bransford - The Forums

Well new since I've joined. I wrote a post about Writing and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Link in my signature!

Uh oh, that's the gray zone! The one panel I was at in the Romantic Times Convention had just this discussion. That's a really tough character age to get published, because if the 21-year old is your protag it's not YA, and it struggles in the adult market as well. The "too tame" doesn't a...

This blows my mind. I've thought all my life it was "thing", because it seems to make sense. Huh.

Eggcorns!

Hm, yeah, I'd definitely say the Da Vinci Code. In my mind, it was poorly written and filled with ridiculous ideas. Personally, I also don't understand the Chuck Palahniuk novels that keep popping up on bestseller lists, and people's lists of favourite authors/books/etc. I just can't read his books,...

I don't think anything could beat the LJ Smith books I read repeatedly as a pre-teen and teen. That includes Vampire Diaries (the original trilogy of THREE books, and later the fourth), the Dark Visions trilogy, and the Night World series. Her Forbidden Game series ranks next highest. Beyond them it...

SECOND DRAFT (plus a bit of grammar fixing): In HUNT, sixteen-year-old Abby Connolly remembers something she shouldn’t be able to, bringing the focus of the Wild Hunt – and its leader Thomas Bowen – down on her. Though half her grade goes to the ruins of the manor in the forest, Abby is the only one...

Dear specific agent, You think you know Liz Murdock, suburban mom of two, wife, and minivan driver. No I don't, I've never met her. . . You may not want to start with a statement like this, for the same reason you shouldn't start with a hypothetical question: the answer might be no. She is predicta...

Dear Agent: The day everyone died sucked for Lucy. The first thing I'm wondering is: how? Although maybe that's not a bad thing.... No high school graduation, no prom, and forget law school. But Lucy's never taken anything lying down even if, technically, her dead body is slumped over her parents' ...

Thanks in advance for your feedback! Dear Mr. AGENT, Maria Black’s 2,477-day normal streak is destroyed by a song. Get that phoenix info in here right away! She hears the latest single from rock star Sam Montgomery on the radio and begins to daydream about him. When Sam and Maria meet and learn tha...

“Please,” she whispered, “just watch.” And then Maria let her body relax for the first time in eight years. She let the sickening burn out from the black hole she’d made for it in her stomach. It was almost relief to finally let go. She felt the nausea well up in her stomach and spill out, felt her...

Hi everyone. Because I adore Nathan's blog, I've decided to join in here too. I'm Jessica and I'm from Canada (near Toronto). Though I've written for my whole life, I've gotten serious about it in the last 2 years or so. I'm putting the final edits on my YA urban fantasy novel HUNT, which is based o...

I agree that angels are already a trend. So is future dystopian and post-apocalyptic, though I think we are just getting started here. I think there's a lot more to come! I also think we're going to keep seeing vampires, werewolves, and also zombies.. they haven't all had their day, and zombies are ...