Blog Hop: easier agreed to than done A Next Big Thing blog hop is a giant game of tag to help readers discoverauthors who are new to them. I said yes, of course, but it has taken me until now to actually answer the 10 questions involved. Believe me, this project is easier agreed to […]
visionary fiction
Life of Pi – Interspirituality in Hollywood?
Life of…pi times r squared. My initial intention was simply to introduce you to the movie, Life of Pi, because it clearly fits the genre of visionary fiction, and movies that do so don’t come by that often. But I couldn’t resist throwing the number “pi” into the mix. As we all learned in school, pi is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter, and […]
Dean Koontz/ Author of Horror or Visionary Fiction?
Note to Reader: I’ve written a post at the Visionary Fiction Alliance titled Is Dean Koontz a Visionary Fiction Writer? In it, I question if Dean Koontz is an author of horror or visionary fiction. At the Visionary Fiction Alliance we share a list of books, film, and television that we consider visionary fiction, which includes: Examples […]
Niche-Specific Audience/My Ideal Reader
I’ve heard that writers need to find a niche and then directly address a niche-specific audience. But in order to do so, the writer must first figure out who that audience is. Each of us, of course, hopes our work will enjoy universal appeal, when more than likely it will attract one segment of the […]
Visionary Fiction by Free Association
Defining visionary fiction is tough, because the genre means different things to different writers. So in coming up with my own definition, I used a technique often used in psychoanalysis called: Free association As a result, I came up with the following words and phrases: open door entry into the between not a place, but an attitude openness […]
Visionary Fiction Alliance
I’m proud to announce that I’ve joined a group of talented writers in starting a website aimed at raising awareness of and interest in the genre of visionary fiction. What is Visionary Fiction? Though visionary fiction has been around for a long time – think shaman stories of ancient times – most agents, publishers and big […]
