Nicholas Wardigo

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  • Interview with the Liars

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    Unbeknownst to my gentle readers, I was interviewed a few weeks ago by the good folks of the Liars Club for their podcast (or, as they like to call it, “Oddcast”).  Last week, that interview went live.  Admittedly, I should have blogged about this a week ago, but life got in the way, and anyway,…

  • Completing the draft!

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    Apologies for being invisible for a while, but as I’ve said more than once, I’m in the final stages of my latest novel, The Lost City of the Metal Men, and things can get…unpredictable.  I notice that, despite a couple of posts in between, I haven’t given an official update on the book since the…

  • 75,000 words!

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    Yeah, yeah, yeah, I keep promising to give details of my new crappy novel, and I keep failing miserably.  This time, I have a good excuse: I was actually writing it.  And, I just hit the 75,000-word mark, which, if my outline is to be believed, is the three-quarters mark.  And so, to celebrate, I’m…

  • Return of the blog!

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    Okay.  Blog-wise, I’ve been dormant for nearly three months, and there are all sorts of reasons for that.  Some are medical, which I won’t go into too much except to say that I’ve been experiencing quirky headaches for about a year, now, and with the help of a couple of doctors, I’m slowly improving.  These aren’t…

  • The first 25,000 words

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    Let’s start with some local theater reporting.  The winter season has kicked off, and I’m pleased to report about some wonderful things happening right now in the Philadelphia area.  I saw two intriguing shows in the past couple of weeks: Informed Consent at the Lantern Theater and Marcus/Emma at InterAct Theatre.  Neither was perfect, but both kept me…

  • The pitfalls of self-publishing, part 3

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    In case you’re wondering, there’s no particular reason I’m attaching a photo of my wife and a chicken, other than I don’t have an image that illuminates the issue of self-publishing, and I enjoy bragging about my cooking.  My blog, my rules. In my last post, I talked about the valid reason why an author…

  • Kudos to my friends

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    As I sit here in the absence of an aftermath from not attending the Push to Publish Conference last weekend, I’m hit with a reminder email from the good people at Theatre Philadelphia that the 2017 Barrymore Awards are in two weeks.  And, while I don’t plan to attend this year, it does remind me…

  • Push to Publish 2015

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    So, two weekends ago saw the comings and goings of Push to Publish 2015, the annual soiree at Rosemont College that pits writers against agents in a Mad-Max-style battle for dominance across a post-apocalyptic Australian desert.  “Just walk away!” howled agent Gina Panettieri.  “Just walk away, and we will allow you to live!” Nothing really…

  • “Updraft” and other words I never used as a child

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    On Monday night, I was privileged to meet local fantasy writer Fran Wilde at my favorite book-addiction fix, Main Point Books.  I’d read Fran’s debut novel, Updraft, the week before and enjoyed it thoroughly.  As you can see in the photo, I wore my special, science-fiction tee-shirt for the occasion.  Also in attendance was Fran’s mentor, Gregory Frost,…

  • The Society that Shall Not be Named

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    Last week, Aurora stepped out of town for some knitting-related tomfoolery, so I decided to invite my degenerate novelist friends over for some stuffed pork loin.  These are the freaks that I met at Push to Publish about this time last year, and we’ve gotten together a few times since and been generally supportive of one…