by John Parker | May 25, 2023 | News, Shared Stories
Special Announcement: Monthly Story Releases for Newsletter Subscribers For you, dear readers, I am releasing special eBooks and audiobooks of my short fiction regularly and exclusively for my newsletter subscribers. I’m attempting monthly releases, and have so far...
by John Parker | May 4, 2023 | News, Shared Stories
A Tip and Story Share As you may have noticed by the novels, short stories, resource materials, and authors I have shared in previous newsletters, I often read historical fiction and nonfiction. In this case, by “historical,” I mean published in the past. My primary...
by John Parker | Mar 22, 2023 | News, Shared Stories
Sci-Fi Genre Trope: Powered Armor/Exoskeleton I’ve shared some of my favorite sci-fi books in recent months and realized a common trope to several of them, what I call powered armor. A powered exoskeleton, also known as power armor, powered armor, powered...
by John Parker | Dec 15, 2022 | Shared Stories
This month I’m sharing what might loosely be considered a subgenre of fantasy fiction, Dragon Fiction. So, please enjoy a brief history of dragons in literature and some current dragon fiction to share. Dragons in Fiction Dragons have been central characters in myths...
by John Parker | Nov 17, 2022 | Shared Stories
This month, rather than sharing a genre, I’m sharing a writing form, Short Fiction, especially Flash Fiction. Short vs Flash Fiction Flash fiction is a classification of short fiction. Generally, stories with less than 7500 words (about 10 pages) are considered short...
by John Parker | Oct 19, 2022 | Shared Stories
This month’s genre to share, Science Fiction Comedy, what I prefer to call Sci-Fi Humor, is not a highly populated one, but may be as old as 1785. No joke. No time machine involved. (At least, as far as I know). From here on, I’ll refer to the genre as “comedy” since...
