Category: publish

• 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

• 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

• New Sci-fi Magazine Alert!

  

  And just like that, it’s been a while since I’ve last written a post, but you know what that means—there’s been a lot of work backstage. The upcoming Ranger Paraversum novel, Girls Back Home, is set to publish October 25th 2021, and I’m hard at work with that one. (I am, I promise!) In the…

  Vesna Kurilic

  July 21, 2021

  announcing, free fiction, holidays, love, publish, read

  fantasy, free fiction, morina kutija, science fiction, speculative fiction

• The Girls are Back—in Black!

  

  Oh, boy.

  Vesna Kurilic

  March 10, 2021

  announcing, publish, write

  announcing, historical fantasy, historical mystery, historical romance, lesbian dieselpunk, lesbian historic, lesbian historical fiction, lesbian mystery, lesbian romance, lesbian suspense, new release, portal fantasy, sapphic fantasy, sapphic romance, sapphic scifi, upcoming release, vintage lesbians

• 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

• 7 Things I Learned From Writing my First Holiday Novella

  

  Tis the season to be… publishing?

  Vesna Kurilic

  December 9, 2020

  announcing, holidays, publish, write

  art deco, creative writing, croatia, dieselpunk, fiction writing, gay murder mystery, gay winter, historical fantasy, historical romance, holiday novella, holigay, how to write, interbellum, m/m mystery, m/m novella, snarky characters, Writing advice, zavizan, zavižan

• ‘I want this scene, this scene, this scene and this trope’ and Other Stuff I liked in November, 2020

  

  Synopsis skills, cover design and life size adult toys. I guess.

  Vesna Kurilic

  November 28, 2020

  publish, read, recs, write

  gay comedy, historical romance, holiday novella, holiday romance, how to write a novel, how to write a synopsis, queer as folk, Reading recs, recs, winter reads, writing business, writing life

• Lucky 7 Books About Writing in the 21st century

  

  Any better ideas on what to do while procrastinating over your novel than reading about how to write?

  Vesna Kurilic

  November 4, 2020

  beginners, publish, write, writing lessons

  beginner writer, books about writing, creative writing, fiction writing, how to oublish a novel, how to publish a book, how to write, how to write a novel, how to write a roance, on writing, publishing, story structure, writing, writing a novel, Writing advice, writing books, writing business, writing romance