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September 25th 2011
About writing for kids
Simon Haynes is the Australian author of the Hal Spacejock series, and the programmer behind yWriter. His latest work is Hal Junior: The Secret Signal, a middle-grade science fiction novel for readers aged 9+. I did a guest blog recently about writing for kids, and I found it hard to stop adding more and more [...]
July 21st 2011
Thoughts on Creating Magic Systems
I’ve written before, on other blogs (including http://magicalwords.net, a site I maintain with several other fantasy authors) about creating magic systems and what I feel such a system needs to read as “real.” In recent months, though, I’ve been thinking about magic a bit differently, in part because I’m now writing historical fantasy and contemporary [...]
May 23rd 2011
Google and Piracy: One Author’s Perspective
On Friday, a friend brought to my attention a blog post that was written by Richard Curtis, a big-name agent in the SF/fantasy genre. Curtis’s post was a response to an announcement earlier in the week by Google’s executive chairman, Eric Schmidt. Essentially, Schmidt said that Google would not make any effort to stop its [...]
April 21st 2011
Villains!
A few weeks ago, Mindy Klasky posted here asking our readers what kind of posts they wished to see. One of the more frequent requests was for posts on the craft of writing. And so, with that in mind, I thought I would use today’s post to write about something that came up this past [...]
March 23rd 2011
A Conversation About Outlining and Worldbuilding, Part II
In last month’s post, I shared the beginning of a lengthy and fruitful email correspondence I shared with a friend of mine, Tim Rohr, a talented young writer. Our discussion focused on worldbuilding, outlining, and the other preparatory work we do as we begin a new novel or series. This month, I present the continuation [...]
February 21st 2011
A Conversation About Outlining and Worldbuilding
My friend Tim Rohr, a talented young writer, emailed me recently with a series of questions about worldbuilding and outlining, and the intersection of those elements of my prep work for writing a novel or series. His questions grew out of a post on outlining that I wrote for the Magical Words blogsite, and out [...]
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. [...]
November 23rd 2010
What I Learned While Working On My Newest Book
I have recently completed work on a new book called How To Write Magical Words: A Writer’s Companion. The book grew out of the Magical Words writing blog that I maintain with several fellow fantasy authors, including Faith Hunter, Misty Massey, A.J. Hartley, and Stuart Jaffe. Fellow SFNovelists writer C.E. Murphy was, along with Faith, [...]
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 [...]
July 23rd 2010
My Favorite
(In the interests of full disclosure, I’m on the road this weekend and so won’t be able to respond to comments immediately. This post is a revised version of a post I wrote several years ago for a different blogsite. It still holds true though. I hope you enjoy it. — DBC) As an author, [...]
Author Information
Simon Haynes
Simon is the author of the Hal Spacejock series, featuring intergalactic loser Hal and his junky sidekick, Clunk. His website contains a number of articles on writing and publishing, and he's also the programmer of several freeware apps including yBook, BookDB and yWriter. In his spare time(!) he helps to run Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine. 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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