Thanks to Victor E. Smith at Visionary Fiction Alliance, I can now direct all readers to Wikipedia when they ask, “What is Visionary Fiction?” Exciting news for all Visionary Fiction authors, readers and lurkers: As of August 2014 a entry entitled “Visionary fiction” has been published on Wikipedia. This feat of sweat and scholarship was […]
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DIVERGENT and Visionary Fiction, Factions Apart
Violence aside, I would gladly welcome the dystopian sci-fi novel Divergent into the visionary fiction “faction.” Veronica Roth deserves her New York Times Bestselling Author status. She deserves her book’s 13,236 Amazon reviews (9,524 of which are five stars). She deserves her book sales of over eleven million. All these accolades are merited because Divergent […]
Between Now and Forever, 2014 ABNA Quarter Finalist
Between Now and Forever, the first novel in my ENTER THE BETWEEN series, is a 2014 ABNA Quarter finalist. That means my novel made it through round one of the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Contest, where 10,000 entries were whittled down to 2,000, and round two, where 2,000 entries were whittled even further to 500.
Synchronicity, Meaningful Coincidences
Visionary fiction opened a new world of paying attention. I needed to receive and transmit information from the unconscious, stuff hidden below the tip of the iceberg that doesn’t surface unless the observer is in a receptive state.
Genre Busters
I wrote a post at Visionary Fiction Alliance called Promoting Visionary Fiction, A Quixotic Quest? about genre busters Katy Perry, Kacey Musgraves, and two re-united Beatles, who proved the value of dark horses, following one’s arrow, and attempting something new. These timely examples of genre busters are mind-blowing reminders that the writing and promotion of visionary fiction, like singing, is […]
Ugly or Beautiful: In the Eye of the Beholder
If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, what about ugliness? How do we define ugly? What repulses us? And why? I posed these questions at Visionary Fiction Alliance in a review of Dean Koontz’s latest release, Innocence, in which little by little, stepby step, Koontz immerses us in ugly, until we are in ugly’s head.
