Category: live

• 9 Lessons From My First Fan Convention as a Publisher

  

  Take a peek at the other side of the thin paper line and find…

  Vesna Kurilic

  May 16, 2022

  events, fandom, geek, live, love, publish, roam, write

  books, convention, creative writing, croatian fandom, croatian fantasy, croatian sci-fi, croatian speculative fiction, croatian writers, fandom, fiction, fiction writing, literature, sci-fi conventions, sferakon, sferakon 2022, shtriga books, writing, writing life

• ‘The Giver’ and the Dissociation of Being an Artist

  

  I should’ve titled this ‘Two Steps to the Left’, because that’s what it feels like, honestly.

  Vesna Kurilic

  May 4, 2022

  live, write

  artist, books, creative, creative writing, fiction, fiction writing, literature, lois lowry, the giver, writing, writing life

• Always the Why

  

  Sing with me! Always the why…. always the why… always, always, always the…

  Vesna Kurilic

  April 19, 2022

  live, love, publish, the heavy stuff, write

  books, creative business, creative writing, fiction, fiction writing, revision, writing, writing life

• The Importance of the Writer’s Whine—A Primer

  

  Who are we? Writers! What do we do? WHINE!

  Vesna Kurilic

  February 13, 2022

  live, the wolf on, write

  books, creative writing, fiction, fiction writing, literature, writing, writing life, writing tips

• How Long Can You Go Without Writing?

  

  …and are you sure you are okay?

  Vesna Kurilic

  January 3, 2022

  live, snw, write

  creative writing, fiction, fiction writing, how to write, writing, Writing advice, writing life

• Three Lessons I Learned From Publishing the Third Book in a Series

  

  No lessons, no life. (Good lessons, good life!)

  Vesna Kurilic

  October 25, 2021

  live, plan, write, writing lessons

  books, fiction writing, girls back home, how to write a series, nanowrimo, ranger paraversum, series bible, writing, Writing advice

• Why Not: Doppelgänger Romance

  

  ‘Doppelgänger romance’ and its variations is not a term to be tossed around lightly—especially when you’re writing it.

  Vesna Kurilic

  February 10, 2021

  beginners, geek, live, love, publish, read, recs, the wolf on, want, write

  alternative history, doppelganger fiction, doppelganger novels, girls in black, lesfic, lgbt alternative history, mark twain, portal fantasy, queer alternative history, queer dieselpunk, ranger paraversum, sapphic romance, sapphic scifi, sarah pinsker, selfcest, selfcest romance, selfcest romance novel, vorkosigan

• There’s No Such Thing as Slavic Fantasy (Except…)

  

  There is no such thing as Slavic fantasy. There is no such thing as Slavic fantasy. There… oh, dammit.

  Vesna Kurilic

  February 3, 2021

  fandom, live, publish, read, roam, the wolf on

  antonija meznaric, creative writing, croatian fantasy, croatian sci-fi, reading, slavic fandom, slavic fantasy, slavic literature, slavic mythology, slavic speculative fiction, slavic writers, writing

• Skirts’n’Wolves in 2021: Huzzah!

  

  The old year is dead! Long live the new year! (…or something like that.)

  Vesna Kurilic

  January 6, 2021

  live, plan, publish, snw, write

  alternative history, creative writing, fiction, genre fiction, historical fantasy, historical fiction, lesbian historic, lesbian historical fiction, lesfic, lgbt historical fiction, murder mystery, portal fantasy, publishing, queer fiction, queer historical fiction, skirts'n'wolves, vesna kurilic, vesna kurilić, writing, writing business

• (Almost) 20 Things I Learned in 2020

  

  Happy holidays, all! And a special hello to new subscribers from 2020—there have been quite a few of you, and the support is really appreciated. #1 People you talk to in your day-to-day life won’t get ebook publishing. I’ve no idea why I thought it would be different (or I do—the internet told me). In…

  Vesna Kurilic

  December 30, 2020

  beginners, holidays, live, snw, write

  2021, any writing advice, bad writing advice, end of year post, good writing advice, happy new year, indie author, indie books, indie publishing, indie writer, lessons from 2020, shtriga books, skirts'n'wolves, vesna kurilic, writing, Writing advice, writing lessons