(520) 546-9992|admin@editorialdepartment.com

Posts from editor Shannon Roberts, who specializes in manuscript critique, developmental editing, and line editing for adult and YA fiction.

How Do We Write about The Future Now That It’s Here? Tips for writing science fiction writing in the 21st century

[by Shannon Roberts]

Science fiction, as a genre, has often struggled to be taken seriously. Oh, it’s garnered some respect, a few classics, and a bucketful of noteworthy authors, but how seriously are we expected to take a class of fiction that still doesn’t even warrant its own section in too many bookstores?

By |2024-01-06T22:46:38+00:00|The Writer’s Craft|Comments Off on How Do We Write about The Future Now That It’s Here? Tips for writing science fiction writing in the 21st century
Read More

Writing with Voice Editor Shannon Roberts on building your authorial voice in unexpected ways

[by Shannon Roberts]

Confession: When I first started writing, I copied.

Not ideas—not consciously anyway—but voice

Initially I modeled my work after one of my (at the time) favorite bloggers and web-comic writers, Jerry Holkins. I started to fold in some Terry Pratchett and I sampled from […]

By |2024-01-06T21:48:36+00:00|The Writer’s Craft|Comments Off on Writing with Voice Editor Shannon Roberts on building your authorial voice in unexpected ways
Read More

Reviewing A GAME OF THRONES by George R.R. Martin A “first 50” review

[by Shannon Roberts]

George R.R.Martin’s A Game of Thrones turns 20 this month! In honor of twenty years in print, and a hugely successful twenty years at that, here’s a breakdown of the first 50 pages of the book that started it all.

Aside from the prologue, the first 50 pages of ‘A Game of Thrones’ […]

By |2024-01-07T00:17:06+00:00|Book Reviews|Comments Off on Reviewing A GAME OF THRONES by George R.R. Martin A “first 50” review
Read More

Yul Brynner’s Black Hat Considering good vs. evil in fantasy fiction

Bad guys and black hats are, in the classic American Western film, almost synonymous.

Even if you haven’t seen many Westerns, you’ve probably absorbed this knowledge via cultural osmosis—I certainly had.

Fortunately, the first Western I was privileged to watch was The Magnificent Seven (if a cowboy movie based on […]

By |2024-01-06T21:53:15+00:00|The Writer’s Craft|Comments Off on Yul Brynner’s Black Hat Considering good vs. evil in fantasy fiction
Read More
Go to Top