Archive for October, 2010

James Alan Gardner October 29th 2010

The Skill List Project: Vocabulary

The last time I blogged here, I started The Skill List Project: an attempt to list the skills involved in writing and selling fiction, particularly science fiction and fantasy. Why? Partly as a way for me to think about the many aspects of writing sf; partly to tell would-be writers about skills they should try [...]

David B. Coe October 21st 2010

Read This Post! And Other Effective Titles

I led a writers’ workshop up in Calgary last week (Waves at IFWA members — Hi, guys!) and had a terrific time.  I worked with serious writers who were as committed to being good critics of their colleagues’ work as they were to improving their own writing.  I learned as much from them as I [...]

Marie Brennan October 16th 2010

Honored

The downside of finishing a long series of posts (like the one I was doing for the past year) is that I didn’t have a topic lined up for this month. The sixteenth sneaked very close before I remembered that I hadn’t written my post yet. But as it turns out, I have a topic [...]

S.C. Butler October 15th 2010

Reading is FUNdamental!

  At least it used to be.  Trouble is, there was never any follow up in schools.  RIF (which still exists, by the way) was and is designed primarily for children under eight who don’t have much access to books.  It was never a school program.      Which is too bad, because sometimes schools forget [...]

Alma Alexander October 5th 2010

For love and comfort

Okay, so, feeling a little under the weather – and I took a day off of everything except basically sitting down with a cup of herbal tea every now and then and… reading a book. An old book, one I’ve owned for years, one I know, one I love. There are certain descriptive passages, certain [...]

Mindy Klasky October 4th 2010

To Series? Or Not To Series?

My name is Mindy, and I’m a speculative fiction reader.  (Hi, Mindy!) In contemporary U.S. publishing, the above statement can be translated to:  “My name is Mindy, and I love reading series of books.”  A lot of ink has been spilled on why readers love series — familiarity with characters, immersion into the details of [...]

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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.

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.

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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