Writing Short Stories in Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Horror, and More

For Fun and Profit

By: D. G. America

Narrated by: Jack Nolan Wadsworth

I believe that writing short stories in sci-fi, fantasy, horror, post-apocalyptic, and related genres represents a great way to get into indie publishing and finding your ideal audience. Here's my take on why this is so fun, often rewarding, and really exciting.

©2017 D. G. America (P)2017 DGA Media

Knowledgeable

This book makes publishing seem more realistic and gives good milestones for working. I wish it had more about storytelling processes.

Helpful but informal

This book was a quick and dirty run down of tips and tricks for new authors. As an aspiring author, it was informative, but not groundbreaking. I was slightly offput by the informal nature, but that is a personal preference. There are some good tips on getting an ebook out there and visible, and this book has caused me to rethink some of my writing plans to tackle short stories first and get them out there to build a reader base

Wonderful Book

Loved it! Listened to it in one sitting. Was entertaining. Would definitely recommend to writers.

Very Helpful

A very helpful book for direction and motivation to write in one of the listed genres. Being a horror writer myself I find it difficult for direction to get work done. This book has definitely assisted me with this issue.

more of a how-to make money on short fiction

This one is more of a plea to write short fiction and a guide to how you can make money at it than any sort of how-to write good short fiction in a genre. I liked it for what it is and hadn't really thought of short fiction (in sci-fi, fantasy and/or horror) as a viable way to make some side money. But the author shows you how you can take a small to medium sized catalog of short stories in a one of those genre's and end up with 20 different saleable items (individually, anthologies, print, large print, audio, etc...).

There really is no advice here on HOW to write good, compelling short stories, or what makes a good short story in any of the genre's, but there's plenty of books and youtube videos for that.

All in all, I thought it was worth the money.