Archive for July, 2009

glenda larke July 28th 2009

Where did the Stormlord come from?

Where do you get your ideas? The often asked question is actually a sensible one, although it usually results in eye-rolling from an author because of its frequency, plus the impossibility of giving a coherent answer. For a start, one idea makes a short story, not a novel. A book takes lots of ideas. For [...]

Marie Brennan July 16th 2009

Villains vs. antagonists

If your English lit education was anything like mine, then at some point a teacher explained to you that narrative conflicts boil down into three broad types: man vs. nature, man vs. man, and man vs. himself. (If your teacher was more forward-thinking than mine, she might have phrased it as “person vs.” instead.) Most [...]

S.C. Butler July 15th 2009

5 Signs Your WIP Is Done

As I am currently suffering through all of them right now, I thought I’d post this handy dandy guide for knowing when a book or story is finished.  1 – You find yourself rewriting the same paragraph three times in half an hour.  Not to be confused with rewriting a paragraph three times in half [...]

David B. Coe July 13th 2009

“When Did You Know…?”

My earliest memory of personal ambition comes from when I was seven years old and writing a story for my first grade teacher, Mrs. Glass.  She had asked us to write about what we wanted to be when we were grown up, and I chose the most obvious thing.  I wanted to play center field [...]

Alma Alexander July 5th 2009

When writers review…

It’s an on-going thing – should there be reviews that pan a book? Should reviewers concentrate on the books that they, you know, actually LIKE? What use is it to write a bad review, anyway? And when you happen to be a writer in your own right, a writer who started writing reviews long before [...]

Diana Pharaoh Francis July 3rd 2009

Writing By The Seat Of The Pants Part II

So a couple of weeks ago, I blogged about how I was writing this novel (fourth in my Crosspointe series) by the seat of my pants and that I had no ending in sight. Here’s that blog if you are interested. I told you then that I’d have an update for you and that I [...]

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Marie Brennan

Marie Brennan is the author of more than thirty short stories and the Onyx Court series of historical fantasy novels, concluding in the upcoming With Fate Conspire (due out September 2011). 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.

David B. Coe

David B. Coe is the author of eleven fantasy novels, including the books of the LonTobyn Chronicle, Winds of the Forelands, and Blood of the Southlands. He has also written the novelization for the Ridley Scott production of ROBIN HOOD, starring Russell Crowe, that is due out in May 2010. 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.

Alma Alexander

Alma Alexander is a Pacific Northwest novelist whose new YA trilogy, "Worldweavers", debuted with "Gift of the Unmage" in March 2007 ("Spellspam" follows in 2008, and "Cybermage" in 2009). Her other books include the internationally acclaimed "The Secrets of Jin Shei". 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 Turning Tide, third in her Crosspointe Chronicles series (look also for The Cipher and The Black Ship). In October 2009, look for Bitter Night, a contemporary fantasy. Diana teaches in the English Department at the University of Montana Western, and is an avid lover of all things chocolate. Visit site.

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