Archive for January, 2011

David B. Coe January 21st 2011

A New Idea

It started with a character, a woman.  I could see her face, read her thoughts.  She was very much a stranger to me, unlike any other character I had written before.  But she showed up in my mind one morning when I should have been working on something else, and insinuated herself into my thoughts.  [...]

James Alan Gardner January 20th 2011

The Skill List Project: Reading Voraciously

This is another post in The Skill List Project: an attempt to list all the skills involved in writing and selling fiction, particularly science fiction and fantasy. This time around, we’re looking at the hugely important skill of reading voraciously—reading widely in order to expand your horizons. Reading For the Love of It From time [...]

Marie Brennan January 16th 2011

It BETTER not all be a dream

Recently I was watching a movie — name redacted to protect the guilty — that, near the end, revealed that its entire second half had been the hallucination of the main character after he suffered massive head trauma. Before the reveal, I was enjoying a cheesy action flick. After the reveal, I was pissed off [...]

S.C. Butler January 15th 2011

Callooh! Callay!

It’s such a wonderful feeling, finishing a story.  On the one hand, there’s the joy of having created something from nothing.  On the other, there’s the sheer relief of not having to work on the darn thing any more.  For short stories I think the joy is especially ecstatic, because your utter weariness isn’t quite [...]

Alma Alexander January 5th 2011

“The Plot Escapes Me”

There have been a number of write-ups of late discussing style vs. content – the WAY a book is written as opposed to what’s actually IN it. There was an article in the Books section of the New York Times – I’d link to it but I only have the body of the article (which [...]

Mindy Klasky January 1st 2011

Be It Resolved…

Yep – you’re probably already tired of reading about New Year’s Resolutions, but it’s January 1, and new beginnings are on my mind. So…  Given the nature and topic of this blog, what are your science-fictional-and-fantastic-novelish resolutions?  Anything involving reading?  Writing?  Creating a new and better society?  Learning science or history or magic? Mindy, with [...]

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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.

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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