Archive for January, 2010

David B. Coe January 21st 2010

Resolution Made; Now, Can I Keep It?

It’s been nearly three weeks since New Year’s, and so I’ve pretty much forgotten most of the resolutions I made for 2010. I really meant to start eating better, but with the house still full of holiday goodies — the fudge and cookies and that wonderful peppermint ice cream that the stores only sell around [...]

Diana Pharaoh Francis January 17th 2010

Did You Ever Have One of Those Ideas?

A novel idea attacked me yesterday and ate my brain. It’s an idea that I love, and yet it’s insane. Really. It’s one of those things where disparate things crash together and seem like they shouldn’t exist in the same universe, much less the same world, city or neighborhood. Think about something like Lost meets [...]

Marie Brennan January 16th 2010

Home is where the hero isn’t

This month on “How to write female characters wrong”: the nagging wife! She isn’t always a wife. Sometimes she’s a mother, instead. Or just a woman who pretty much fills one of those roles, without the actual relationship. Whatever guise she wears, this is the female character whose role in the story seems to be [...]

S.C. Butler January 15th 2010

Sam-Who-Likes-Nothing – The Stars My Destination

I always wondered why I never read this book.  By the time I was in college I had read most of the pre-1960 SF classics, but for some reason this one never crossed my palms. Now I think I know why.  Except for a certain muscularity, and a wonderful description of synesthesia toward the end, [...]

Alma Alexander January 5th 2010

Pet story…

What kind of a pet would your story be if it were a living thing? I was in the waiting area of my car’s service department while said car was being worked on, and they had put in a large aquarium, full of brightly coloured and exotically shaped tropical fish. Flashes of bright yellow, striped [...]

Mindy Klasky January 4th 2010

Day Late, Dollar Short (or How I Make New Year’s Resolutions)

Yeah, I know it’s already January 4.  But really, this is the first working day of the new year.  So, the fact that I’m supposed to post on the first of each month shouldn’t really matter, right?  Even if my post is about how to impose discipline on writing, specifically through the use of New [...]

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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.

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.

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.

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.

Mindy Klasky

Mindy Klasky is the author of eleven novels, including WHEN GOOD WISHES GO BAD and HOW NOT TO MAKE A WISH in the As You Wish Series. She also wrote GIRL'S GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT, SORCERY AND THE SINGLE GIRL, and MAGIC AND THE MODERN GIRL, about a librarian who finds out she's a witch. Mindy also wrote the award-winning, best-selling Glasswrights series and the stand-alone fantasy novel, SEASON OF SACRIFICE. Visit site.

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