Archive for October, 2007
October 29th 2007
Small Mind Hobgoblins
My high school English teacher used to have a quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson hanging on the bulletin board that baffled me for years. It read: “Foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” (Apparently, there’s more to it.) I’m reminded of it, however, every time I receive a copy edited manuscript from my publisher.
That may sound like […]
October 28th 2007
Start the conversation without me
At least a couple of times a week, exceptionally interesting and informative blog conversations pop up all over my little corner of the netverse. Some days, everyone seems to settle for posting quiz results, car repair woes, and head cold sagas, but other days, the repartee just seem to take off. Current events. Politics. The […]
October 25th 2007
Doing Well by Doing Good
When I finished writing Girl’s Guide to Witchcraft, I decided that I wanted to use it, in part, to do something good - I wanted to donate some of my profits from the book to a charity. Applying my librarian skills for good instead of for evil, I started to research charities, looking for […]
October 24th 2007
Help! I’ve Forgotten how to Read!
I’m a thirty-three year old author with four books sold, and I need to learn how to read.
Growing up, reading was easy. My mother taught me when I was four, mostly so she could shove a book into my hands and get a break from me. (I understand her motivation much better these days, having […]
October 22nd 2007
Reading Beyond Yourself
At a local Barnes & Noble in the children’s section, I overheard a mother tell her children, “Remember what we talked about! Pick something in your reading level!”
Now, I admit that I didn’t know what was going on there, and it’s entirely possible that this parent was admonishing her children not to chose a book that […]
October 18th 2007
“It’s HBO-style epic fantasy”
I hear that in Hollywood one is supposed to master the “elevator pitch.” Let’s say you get in an elevator with a well-known producer, and from the time when the elevator doors close the hapless producer is stuck with you until the doors open on the next floor. This is your only chance […]
October 17th 2007
Life in the blurbs
What do newly-published authors dread more than anything else? More than receiving 27 pages of editorial notes after they handed in the (supposedly) final draft? Yes, and even more than their first negative review?
Asking famous authors for blurbs!
If you’re lucky you can handball this to someone else, especially if your publisher has a suitable author […]
October 17th 2007
I am back in highschool
Okay, not really. But it feels like I’m a 16-year-old goober waiting by the phone for a prom date to call (because, yanno, I couldn’t have the boobs to call some guy myself.) So anyhow, the problem is my next book, The Cipher, comes out on November 6th. Why does that make […]
October 16th 2007
Why I will never write a Mayan apocalypse novel
On December 21st — or December 23rd, depending on who you ask — 2012, the world will come to an end.
Or not.
On that date, the Long Count, one aspect of the fantastically complicated Mayan calendar system, will read 13.0.0.0.0. That’s the “end” of the calendar: we’ll have completed 13 baktuns, bringing us back around […]
October 15th 2007
First Love
My first love as a reader was sf, so why am I writing fantasy? Well, for one thing, there wasn’t a lot of fantasy when I was a boy in the ‘60s, but there was a lot of sf. Heinlein juveniles, golden age fixups (is A.E Van Vogt really a YA writer?), and TV shows […]
Author Information
Lyda Morehouse
Lyda Morehouse is the author of the science fiction AngeLINK series. She's won the Shamus and the Philip K. Dick Special Citation for Excellence (aka 2nd place). Her books have also been nominated for the Romantic Times Critics' Choice and preliminary Nebula ballot. She lives in the deep-freeze of Saint Paul, MN with her partner of twenty-odd years, their son, and lots and lots of cats (and fish!) Visit site.
Kristine Smith
I'm a scientist by day, spec fic writer by nights and weekends. Author of the Jani Kilian SF series. Owned by two overgrown puppies. Visit site.
Mindy Klasky
Mindy Klasky is the author of eight novels, including the popular paranormal romances GIRL'S GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT and SORCERY AND THE SINGLE GIRL. Mindy also wrote the award-winning, best-selling Glasswrights series and the stand-alone fantasy novel, SEASON OF SACRIFICE. Visit site.
Jim C. Hines
Jim C. Hines is the author of the goblin trilogy from DAW Books. The third book, GOBLIN WAR, came out in March, 2008. THE STEPSISTER SCHEME will begin a new series in January of 2009. He made his first professional fiction sale in 1998 with "Blade of the Bunny," an award-winning story that appeared in Writers of the Future XV. His short fiction has since appeared in over 30 magazines and anthologies, including Realms of Fantasy, Turn the Other Chick, and Sword & Sorceress XXI. Jim lives in Michigan with his wife and two children. He's currently hard at work on a sequel to THE STEPSISTER SCHEME. Visit site.
Tate Hallaway
Tate Hallaway is the best-selling paranormal romance alter-ego for an award-winning science fiction author. Currently, her short story "Fire and Ice and Linguine for Two" is available in MANY BLOODY RETURNS (Ace Hardcover, Sept. 2007) 978-0441015221 Visit site.
Kate Elliott
Kate ElliottKate Elliott is the author of multiple fantasy and science fiction novels, including the Crown of Stars series and the Novels of the Jaran. She's currently working on Crossroads; the first novel, Spirit Gate, is already out, and Shadow Gate will be published in Spring 2008. Visit site.
Simon Haynes
Simon is the author of the Hal Spacejock series, featuring intergalactic loser Hal and his junky sidekick, Clunk. His website contains a number of articles on writing and publishing, and he's also the programmer of several freeware apps including yBook, BookDB and yWriter. In his spare time(!) he helps to run Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine. Visit site.
Diana Pharaoh Francis
Diana Pharaoh Francis has written the fantasy novel trilogy that includes Path of Fate, Path of Honor and Path of Blood. Path of Fate was nominated for the Mary Roberts Rinehart Award. Recently released was The Cipher, first of The Crosspointe Chronicles, which will be followed by The Black Ship in November 2008. Diana teaches in the English Department at the University of Montana Western, and is an avid lover of all things chocolate. Visit site.
Marie Brennan
Marie Brennan is the author of several fantasy novels and short stories, including the upcoming Elizabethan faerie spy fantasy Midnight Never Come. Visit site.
S.C. Butler
Butler is the author of The Stoneways Trilogy from Tor Books: Reiffen's Choice, Queen Ferris, and The Magician's Daughter. Find out what Reiffen does with magic, and what magic does with him... Visit site.
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