Archive for August, 2010

David B. Coe August 23rd 2010

Thoughts on Writing While Listening to Jazz

A few days ago I was listening to one of my favorite jazz albums (Diamond in the Rough by Roy Hargrove) and in particular to a song called “Confidentiality,” and I realized that jazz improvisations are the perfect analogy for explaining multiple point of view transitions for epic fantasy.  No, really.  They are.  And yes, [...]

James Alan Gardner August 20th 2010

The Skill List Project

I recently re-read Twyla Tharp’s book The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life.  It’s one of a set of books I read every now and then to raise my sights and make me more ambitious in my work; although Tharp is a choreographer, the book is a great source of inspiration for [...]

Marie Brennan August 19th 2010

Problem solved

Just a brief heads-up to anyone who noticed our site issues from Sunday until today: we had some WordPress difficulties that interfered with your ability to click through to entries, read or post comments, or generally do anything you might want to do on the site. Those should be resolved now, and our apologies for [...]

S.C. Butler August 16th 2010

Publishing and Class

 (I was supposed to post this yesterday, but I was traveling.  Sorry, Marie.)  So, I’m sitting here in sunny Italy, Tuscany to be precise, sipping white wine and chomping on wild boar while the rain pours down outside, and it occurs to me that one of the biggest differences between mainstream and genre is class.  Economic [...]

Marie Brennan August 16th 2010

T&A on Parade

Last month we talked about honorary males: the idea that for a woman to be powerful, she has to be like a man. As I indicated at the time, that was meant at least in part as a lead-in to this month’s post, in which we look at the other side of the coin. The [...]

Alma Alexander August 5th 2010

On Magic

You’ll have to forgive me – I’m presently running as fast as I can just to keep up with myself – so here is one from the archives and from elsewhere which you might not have seen before. Enjoy… Fantasy is a lens which sharpens and clarifies the sliver of reality viewed through it, or [...]

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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.

James Alan Gardner

James Alan Gardner got his M.Math from the University of Waterloo with a thesis on black holes...and then he immediately started writing science fiction instead. He's been a finalist for the Hugo and Nebula awards, and has won the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award as well as the Aurora award (twice). He's published seven novels (beginning with "Expendable"), plus a short story collection and (for street cred) a Lara Croft book. He cares deeply about words and sentences, and is working his way up to paragraphs. 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.

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.

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.

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