Wow. The QSQ Collective made a group 🙂 appearance at the Austin convention — at one panel, there were nine members on the reading panel. (Please don’t ask how many were in the audience; it’ll be better next year!) Folks spoke on panels, and Elizabeth Moon had shirts for her… Continue reading
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I’ve been hawking one of my manuscripts since just before Covid. It’s a post-apocalyptic SF novel. I used a friend-cum-agent at first. She was a food book agent, so lets say there’s a mismatch in terms of her experience and the material. Still, even after I wrote the pitches she… Continue reading
An update on life… Having a lot of fun reading Victor’s short stories. Check out his profile to sign up!
I have been helping Elizabeth with her new novel, Horngard. It’s one of the fastest manuscript-to-publication timelines we have ever seen. It’s already got a cover and a release date: October 6th! A lot of time (and laughs) were spent on getting the manuscript ready for production. I’ve never had… Continue reading
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Authors have always been on the scam end of things. Vanity publishing has been around for literal centuries, and content itself has been used, abused, and weaponized by creators, publishers, and critiquers. I mean, there’s something to the tropes of us working in the dark, alone, in writer garrets. The… Continue reading
White Gold Wielders has been the group’s name for literal decades. With a more public focus, we’ve started our rebranding to QuickSilverQuills, which reflects our current group focus and respects the copyright of the original White Gold Wielders concept by Stephenson R. Donaldson.
Some of the folks in the group have unfortunately been hit by this intellectual property theft, so here’s the latest.
AggieCon is almost upon us! Who’ll be there? Well, there’s Martha Wells and D.L. Young, sure, but this year the ‘con will sparkle with Paige E. Ewing and Dara Kountz! Yep, look for Paige at panels, and both in the dealer room.
