The last note of Stories That Sing: 1950s edition is fading in the wind. Everyone did a great job guessing: 20 of the 23 songs were identified! Why Do Fools Fall in Love? was the most popular 1950s song, inspiring two Wacky Wednesday stories and one Fantasy Friday tale. For those inquiring minds among you,
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You’ve been wondering. You’ve been guessing. And you’ve been more than patient. Without further ado, here are the songs that inspired July’s stories so far… at least, the ones that have been guessed! Week 1: Moonlight and Blueberries by Dalia Grigorescu – Blueberry Hill (jebraunclifford) Evacuation Assistance by Helena George – Rag Mop (CarolBMT) Radio
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Take a look at June’s Scoreboard – Readers’ favorites, editors’ picks, super readers – then buckle your seatbelt for our Season One Award Winners! And, did we mention, it’s Launch Day for our Season One Anthology?
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Next week, VERY special things are happening! Havok is going to the Realm Makers Conference in St. Louis. Not only will 18 of our Havok Hive (our staff) be attending, but a lot of the Horde will be there as well! We have some cool swag to share, so make sure to stop by our
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WARNING: CONTENTS UNDER PRESSURE. READ AT YOUR OWN RISK. What you see above is the culmination of eight months of work. Planning for the rebirth of Havok. Vision casting. Implementation. Hard work by our authors, editors, and support staff. Input from readers. Investment by our fantastic featured authors James Scott Bell, David Farland, Robert Liparulo,
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We’re rounding up Season One this month. That means it’s about a month until we take the best stories from each month and wrap them up in our Season One: Rebirth anthology! Along with our winning stories, we’re featuring award-winning and best-selling authors. Here they are today, stopping by to answer the question What do
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Top Stories for May The stories that received the most lightning bolts for April were Techno Tuesday’s Sins of Fire and Metal by Emileigh Latham and Wacky Wednesday’s At Your Service by Christine Smith. Topping off our other genres, we have Thriller Thursday’s The Tomb of the Ophidian Scepter by Michael Dolan, Fantasy Friday’s Victor by E.A.
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At Havok, we count a lot. Number of submissions, days, lightning bolts, comments. Number of authors, members, staff, newsletter subscribers. [Have you subscribed to our newsletter? If not, we send monthly updates about submissions, insider info, and other writer-related stuff that doesn’t show up here.] Today, we’re counting multiple publications. This Saturday Scoreboard is brought
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Our editors answer the question: what is a common mistake you see authors making that keeps their stories from getting acquired? Too much narrative, extraneous detail, backstory, not enough conflict or resolution, and flat characters. Drop the reader into the action at the first sentence, and make them feel what the characters feel. We also
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At Havok, we love stories and the people who write them. What better way to celebrate both than by hearing from our talented authors on what sparked the idea of their stories? It’s like peering into the mind of genius. (You know, that would make for an interesting story…) Without further ado, here is this
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April came in like a LION at Havok and stayed through the month! No lambs around here, that’s for sure. Not with 22 fantastic stories, 5 compelling genres, and hundreds of Havok Horde members. Our editors have picked their favorite April stories. That means the stories below are in contention for our first anthology! (You’ll have
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It’s May (in case you hadn’t noticed), and that means time to look back at all the April stories and see which ones came in like a lion… Top Stories for April The stories that received the most lightning bolts for April were Thriller Thursday’s Corruption’s Kiss by Margaret Graber and Techno Tuesday’s Words by
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