Beta Test by Eric Griffith presented by Bewitching Books Tours.
I would like to welcome Eric Griffith to The Avid Reader today. Thanks Eric Griffith for joining us. Eric Griffith will be giving us Five Fun Writing Facts about Eric Griffith.
Book Title: Beta Test
Author: Eric Griffith
Publisher: Hadley Rille
Hardcover: Pages: 278
ISBN: 978-0-9839531-0-4
ISBN: 978-0-9839531-1-1
Book blurb:
“Sam Terra is having a bad week. He lost Molly, the woman he secretly loves, when she vanished before his eyes at the exact same time that ten percent of the inhabitants of Earth disappeared.
“Naturally upset, Sam follows clues about the global vanishing with questionable help from his friends including a misanthropic co-worker and a childhood pal. When Molly reappears in the body of a man during a night of monster-laden devastation, Sam finally learns the truth. Not just about her, but about the planet Earth and the entire cosmos surrounding it.
“What we consider mundane reality, others consider a game...and not a very good one. The whole thing is about to be shut down.
Buy Links:
Hardcover
Amazon
Barnes and Noble
Ebook:
Kindle
Nook
Five Fun Writing Facts about Eric Griffith
Eric can't write at his desk.
While I has a very nice setup with dual-monitors and broadband internet and all the trappings of a modern-day 40-something Batman (albeit in an upstairs bedroom with more dogs than bats, copious sunlight, fewer capes), that computer is for my day job. My employers will be happy to know I have a mental block about writing fiction on my work computer (which they didn't even buy!). Of course, I also don't do work for my regular job on my laptop, so I guess it's fair.
Rituals Are Bad.
I learned this at a very important-in-my-life writing workshop (called Viable Paradise): writers with rituals don't get much done. Those are the people who have to read and reply to all their emails before they open a document to write. Or who have to play just one more game of Scrabble. Or read all the feeds in Google Reader they have subscribed too. I have ALL of those rituals. I'm screwed.
I Was Listening To That Lecture On Passive Voice.
Sorry, I listened to that lecture. And that's how you fix passive voice. I think. I'm still working on it. Feel free to send me corrections.
Research is for Suckers.
And by suckers I mean people with a real work ethic. I write fantasy because I don't want to be totally beholden to such things as "facts." I want to make them up. That said, I do tend to go for a certain kind of verisimilitude that some copious use of Google Maps and Wikipedia is perfect for. I pity the writers of old that didn't have Street View or couldn't spend an afternoon reading about every single monster in the Godzilla movies.
Writing is Hard.
This isn't news to anyone that has tried (or even succeeded) in writing a book. Once I started to treat writing like a second job, rather than a hobby that required the "muse" to strike, it's when I reached a modicum of success in selling BETA TEST. It didn't hurt that I was fixing my passive voice problems.
I mean, I fixed them. Dammit!
Author bio:
Eric Griffith is the author of the sci-fi novel BETA TEST from Hadley Rille Books, which Publishers Weekly called “an unusually lighthearted apocalyptic tale.” By day he works as the features editor for PCMag.com. By night he sneaks out of the house to write fictions. He currently lives in Ithaca, New York. You can follow his online exploits daily via Eric Griffith.
Find the Author:
Hadley Rille Eric Griffith Twitter
1 comments:
Thanks for having me on as a guest! I appreciate it. And hey, BETA TEST is only 99 cents for Kindle and Nook owners right now, so hope you'll give it a try.
Post a Comment