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Steve’s Book Roundup 11/6/2022

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I write a lot and have quite a few books.  So now and then I post a roundup of them for interested parties!

The Way With Worlds Series

This is what I do a lot of – writing on worldbuilding!.  You can find all of my books at www.WayWithWorlds.com! 

The core books of the series will help you get going:

  • Way With Worlds Book 1 – Discusses my philosophy of worldbuilding and world creation essentials.
  • Way With Worlds Book 2 – Looks at common subjects of worldbuilding like conflicts in your setting, skills for being a good worldbuilder, and more!

When you need to focus on specifics of worldbuilding, I have an ever-growing series of deep dive minibooks.  Each provides fifty questions with additional exercises and ideas to help you focus on one subject important to you!

The current subjects are:

Fiction

Take a typical fantasy world – and then let it evolve into the information age.  Welcome to the solar system of Avenoth, where gods use email, demons were banished to a distant planet, and science and sorcery fling people across worlds . . .

  • A Bridge To The Quiet Planet – Two future teachers of Techno-Magical safety find trying to earn their credentials hunting odd artifacts backfires when they’re hired to put some back . . . on a planet where gods go to die!
  • A School of Many Futures – The crew is back, and finding having secrets and keeping them isn’t the same thing! Unfortunately they also find “very normal” is a cover for “anything but” . . .

Creativity

I’m the kind of person that studies how creativity works, and I’ve distilled my findings and advice into some helpful books!

  • The Power Of Creative Paths – Explores my theories of the Five Types of Creativity, how you can find yours, and how to expand your creative skills to use more Types of Creativity.
  • Agile Creativity – I take the Agile Manifesto, a guide to adaptable project development, and show how it can help creatives improve their work – and stay organized without being overwhelmed.
  • The Art of The Brainstorm Book – A quick guide to using a simple notebook to improve brainstorming, reduce the stress around having new ideas, and prioritize your latest inspirations.
  • Chance’s Muse – I take everything I learned at Seventh Sanctum and my love of random tables and charts and detail how randomness can produce inspiration!

Careers

Being a “Professional Geek” is what I do – I turned my interests into a career and have been doing my best to turn that into advice.  The following books are my ways of helping out!

  • Fan To Pro – My “flagship” book on using hobbies and interests in your career – and not always in ways you’d think!
  • Skill Portability – A quick guide to how to move skills from one job to another, or even from hobbies into your job.  Try out my “DARE” system and asses your abilities!
  • Resume Plus – A guide to jazzing up a resume, sometimes to extreme measures.
  • Epic Resume Go! – Make a resume a creative act so it’s both better and more enjoyable to make!
  • Quest For Employment – Where I distill down my job search experiences and ways to take the search further.
  • Cosplay, Costuming, and Careers – An interview-driven book about ways to leverage cosplay interests to help your career!
  • Fanart, Fanartists, and Careers – My second interview-driven book about ways to leverage fanart to help your career!
  • Convention Career Connection – A system for coming up with good career panels for conventions!

Culture

  • Her Eternal Moonlight – My co-author Bonnie and I analyze the impact Sailor Moon had on women’s lives when it first came to North America.  Based on a series of interviews, there’s a lot to analyze here, and surprisingly consistent themes . . .

My Sites

Steve’s Update 10/30/2022

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(This column is posted at www.StevenSavage.com, Steve’s Tumblr, and Pillowfort.  Find out more at my newsletter, and all my social media at my linktr.ee)

Here’s my latest update!

“Think Agile, Write Better”: Haven’t heard back from my pre-readers yet, but I know at least one has gotten busy, so there’s a chance this is going to slip.  I do NOT want this put out without pre-reader input, so I might do another editorial run and then begin then in December.  If you want to pre-read, let me know!

The Way With Worlds series: Continuing to write Disaster Response and Worldbuilding which is, again, really making me think.  The big realization is a lot of our pop culture doesn’t focus on response if it’s not “interesting” – which means we forget worldbuilding.

The Seventh Sanctum rewrite: My November trip is cancelled (probably) so now its just finding a weekend.  Plus turns out I’ve banked too many vacation days at work . . .

Finally, giveaways!

Steven Savage

Steve’s Update 10/16/2022

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“Think Agile, Write Better”: Waiting on prereaders right now.  At this rate, I hope to edit it over November and maybe take advantage of a few extra days off around Thanksgiving.  There’s still time to pre-read (moreso if my other pre-readers are taking their time).  It might go a little longer, unfortunately.

The Way With Worlds series: Disaster response is in progress!  This one surprises me, and is going to be a nice, broad book on things to think of – including reader sensitivity. I’ve also started updating the book covers, so look for the new visuals on my History and Calendar books!

The Seventh Sanctum rewrite: Looking like this might be November – I might have a trip.  Fortunately, I launched another site and used it to practice.

Future Work:

  • Fiction/RPG – Still considering an Avenoth RPG, but if I do it’d start sometime later next year.
  • Blog Compendium – I’ll probably start this once I get through some of the other work (so December, January).  It’s really something to do in big chunks of time, so I might actually do it over a break – let’s face it, I mean “Christmas.”
  • Creativity and Advice – No major projects right now.
  • “Other Stuff” – I am looking at some art/writing projects under my other pen names (this isn’t the only one).

Finally, giveaways!

Steven Savage