2008 October at SF Novelists

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Mindy Klasky October 31st 2008

Trick or Treat - for Children’s Literacy!

I am conducting a fundraiser for the children’s literacy charity, First Book, which gives low-income kids their first books to read and own.
The fundraiser is in two parts: 1) A calendar for sale featuring 12 recipes created by several genre authors in honor of the Cake Walk bakery featured in my Jane Madison Series of […]

Stephanie Burgis October 26th 2008

A whole new world

Last month I wrote about being in limbo in more than one sense. I was in the 9th month of pregnancy, waiting for my first baby to arrive; I’d sold my first trilogy but not yet published the first book. Well, the first waiting game ended the night after I wrote that entry, when my […]

Jim C. Hines October 24th 2008

Where to Shop for Books

There’s been some interesting chatter lately on bookstores and book buying and which chains we should support and so on. Some authors say independents are the answer. Others champion Barnes & Noble over Borders. I haven’t seen many of us campaigning for the Amazon Empire, but if you check our web sites, you’ll find that most […]

Lyda Morehouse October 23rd 2008

SF/F and Race

Last night at class, the conversation turned somewhat unexpectedly to the issue of science fiction/fantasy and race. It was only slightlyunexpected, as, after all, the assigned reading was “The Comet” by W. E. B. Du Bois (1920) which is shocking by today’s standards not so much for its SF content, but for its liberal inclusion […]

David B. Coe October 21st 2008

How Do You Deal With Distractions?

Let me start by promising that this is not going to be a political post — I’m not getting into any polemics at all.
That said, I’m utterly obsessed with the election right now. I have about half a dozen election oriented websites that I check and recheck slavishly during the course of the day. I […]

Diana Pharaoh Francis October 17th 2008

The economy sucks–what are you doing for entertainment?

I’m curious what people are doing for entertainment while the economy is so suckitudinous. Are you netflixing? Going to movies? Traveling to Europe? Heading to Canada now that the dollar is strengthening? Painting by numbers? Reading more books? Digging out all those video games you used to play and forgot about and now they all […]

Marie Brennan October 16th 2008

Blood, love, and rhetoric

PLAYER: We’re more of the blood, love, and rhetoric school. […] I can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and I can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and I can do you all three concurrent or consecutive, but I can’t do you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is […]

S.C. Butler October 15th 2008

I Love My Editors – Part 2

I’m not much of a short story writer, which is why my second editorial relationship is quite different from my first. It’s also why, when Scott H. Andrews of the great new magazine Beneath Ceaseless Skies said he was interested in my story if I did X, Y, and Z, I immediately went out and […]

Tate Hallaway October 13th 2008

Defining Our Genre

When I somewhat jokingly complained to a writer friend about not getting invited to a comic con because I wasn’t one of the “cool kids,” I expected him to laugh at me and tell me I was acting (as usual) like a diva. Instead, he said without missing a beat, mind you, “Maybe it’s because […]

Kelly McCullough October 11th 2008

There’s Nothing Wrong With Happily Ever After

Nor, for that matter, is there anything inherently wrong with “they all died tragically.” One of the bedrock problems that you run into in any discussion of fiction is the idea that there is some objective way of determining if a story is good.* I don’t believe that there is, in part because fiction isn’t […]

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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.

Stephanie Burgis

Stephanie Burgis is an American writer who lives in Yorkshire, England, with her husband, fellow writer Patrick Samphire, their son "Mr Darcy", and their crazy-sweet border collie mix, Maya. Her YA Regency fantasy trilogy, starting with Kat by Moonlight, will be published by Hyperion Books in 2010, 2011, and 2012. She has also published short stories in a variety of magazines, anthologies, and podcasts, including Strange Horizons, Aeon, and Escape Pod. You can find out more, or read/listen to her published stories online, at her website. Visit site.

Jim C. Hines

Jim C. Hines is the author of THE STEPSISTER SCHEME, the first book in a new series that blends the old fairy tales and Charlie's Angels. He also wrote the humorous goblin trilogy, from DAW Books. 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 RED HOOD'S REVENGE, the third book in his princess series. Visit site.

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.

David B. Coe

David B. Coe is the author of nine fantasy novels, including the books of the LonTobyn Chronicle, Winds of the Forelands, and Blood of the Southlands. In 1999 he received the Crawford Fantasy Award, given annually by the IAFA to the best new author in fantasy. He has a Ph.D. in United States environmental history and lives on the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee with his wife and daughters. 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 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.

Tate Hallaway

Tate Hallaway is the best-selling paranormal romance alter-ego for an award-winning science fiction author. Her most recent novel is DEAD IF I DO is forthcoming from Berkley Trade in May of 2009. Visit site.

Kelly McCullough

Kelly McCullough's first novel in the WebMage series, WebMage, was released by Ace in 2006 to considerable critical praise. Cybermancy, and CodeSpell followed in '07 and '08. His 4th, MythOS, is slated for late May '09. His short fiction has appeared in numerous venues including Weird Tales, Writers of the Future, and Tales of the Unanticipated. His illustrated collection, The Chronicles of the Wandering Star, is part of a National Science Foundation-funded middle school science curriculum, Interactions in Physical Science. Visit site.

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