Archive for November, 2011

James Alan Gardner November 25th 2011

The Skill List Project: Scene Design

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. Last time around, I talked about the flow of plot from scene to scene. This time, we’ll be looking at the skill of designing a single scene, once [...]

David B. Coe November 23rd 2011

What Are Your Favorite Re-Readable Books?

The Thanksgiving holiday is looming, and I’m actually traveling right now, so I’m going to keep this fairly brief, and I probably won’t be able to respond to comments due to lack of internet access.  But that doesn’t mean that you can’t continue this discussion amongst yourselves. I’m doing some graduate student mentoring at a [...]

Marie Brennan November 16th 2011

Research for writers, #4: Get Help

Sometimes the thing you want to research is either so unfamiliar to you or so obscure that you don’t even know where to start. The strategies for these two scenarios are not quite the same, because the root problem is not the same. In the former case, you may be facing an abundance of information, [...]

S.C. Butler November 14th 2011

Secrets of Writing – Transitions

I don’t often write about the craft of writing – there are a lot of people out there a lot better at it than I am, and they can teach it a lot better than I can, too.  But transitions are an aspect of writing I don’t hear discussed a lot, and I think they’re [...]

Mindy Klasky November 1st 2011

Electronic Means Never Needing to Say “I’m Sorry.”

I am not perfect. Shocking admission, I know. But I have to admit – I *was* shocked when I first published SORCERY AND THE SINGLE GIRL, the second volume in my Jane Madison series.  I had carefully done a great deal of research about various aspects of witchcraft — runes and herbs and crystals… One [...]

Author Information

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.

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.

Topics

Archives

Browse our archives:

RECENT BOOKS