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August 21st 2008
My Newest Jacket Art
Depending on the author you speak to, and depending on when in that author’s career you happen to strike up the conversation, one’s jacket art can be a source great excitement or bitter consternation.
I bring this up because my editor has just sent me an image of the art that will grace the cover of […]
August 11th 2008
Writers Resources
One of my non-writing but writing-related hobbies is indexing. I know that sounds a little strange and off topic, but bear with me for a moment. In this case, it’s actually quite strongly related to writing. There are a number of excellent blogs by professionals in the publishing world that offer writing and publishing advice. […]
July 24th 2008
Getting Lucky
I’ve always been a firm believer in the “We make our own luck” approach to life, and to writing in general. Likewise, I believe in skill over talent, and that the most important part of making it as a writer is to work your backside off to learn and improve.
And then I read this post […]
July 22nd 2008
The Dreaded Synopsis
No matter how many times I sit down to write synopses, I always end up screaming: “If I could distill the story into clever sound bytes, I’d be an advertising mogul, not a novelist!”
At least the project on my hardrive is for a novel yet to be written.
I find it slightly easier to imagine the main […]
July 14th 2008
“Middling” Through
Mid-July. Middle of the summer. It’s hot and humid and I can think of twenty places I’d rather be than home working. I’m in the middle of a book, which will, at some point, wind up on the middle of a bookstore shelf and have middling sales numbers which will keep me right where I am […]
July 10th 2008
Real People, Unreal Worlds–Are you Liable to Libel?
A friend of mine who’s not a writer recently asked me if I would get in trouble with using real people in my novel. In my first book, coming out in August, I have walk-ons by a few dead-but-famous people (P. K. Dick, Carl Jung, Eisenhower), as well as a few famous-but-not-dead people. Notably, I […]
July 7th 2008
Making Cross-Promotion Fun
Back in 2006, mystery writer Joe Konrath and I were talking about websites. He asked me a very important question:
“Why will people come back to your site after the first visit?”
So I thought long and hard about it. And what I thought was this: I would interview other authors.
Not different enough, though; lots of people […]
June 23rd 2008
The Book I Love and Can’t Sell
The best book I’ve ever written hasn’t been published yet. It hasn’t even been contracted.
This isn’t some lame attempt at metaphysics or inspirational tripe. I mean this literally. The book is written, and it’s the best thing I’ve ever done. But I can’t sell it, and it’s driving me nuts. Let me back up briefly […]
June 17th 2008
Giving it all away
Earlier this year I was casting around for some way to publicise the fourth novel in my ongoing SF/Humour series before the launch. The books are doing fairly well in Australia, but there’s a huge chasm between ‘fairly well’ and where I’d like them to be, and so I got talking to the publisher.
Like I […]
May 18th 2008
Why Are Books So Long?
The beauty, and danger, of the web is precisely that it contains an ongoing worldwide 24-hour-a-day conversation on every topic imaginable. I have never watched tv much, but I do now waste time online just because it is so easy to do. And online, certain topics seem to rear their heads with impressive, […]
Author Information
David B. Coe
David B. Coe is the author of nine fantasy novels, including the books of the LonTobyn Chronicle, Winds of the Forelands, and Blood of the Southlands. 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.
Kelly McCullough
Kelly McCullough's first novel in the WebMage series, WebMage, was released by Ace in 2006 to considerable critical praise. Cybermancy, and CodeSpell followed in '07 and '08. His 4th, MythOS, is slated for late May '09. His short fiction has appeared in numerous venues including Weird Tales, Writers of the Future, and Tales of the Unanticipated. His illustrated collection, The Chronicles of the Wandering Star, is part of a National Science Foundation-funded middle school science curriculum, Interactions in Physical Science. Visit site.
Jim C. Hines
Jim C. Hines is the author of the goblin trilogy from DAW Books. The third book, GOBLIN WAR, came out in March, 2008. THE STEPSISTER SCHEME will begin a new series in January of 2009. He made his first professional fiction sale in 1998 with "Blade of the Bunny," an award-winning story that appeared in Writers of the Future XV. His short fiction has since appeared in over 30 magazines and anthologies, including Realms of Fantasy, Turn the Other Chick, and Sword & Sorceress XXI. Jim lives in Michigan with his wife and two children. He's currently hard at work on a sequel to THE STEPSISTER SCHEME. Visit site.
Tate Hallaway
Tate Hallaway is the best-selling paranormal romance alter-ego for an award-winning science fiction author. Her most recent novel is ROMANCING THE DEAD, the third installment in the Garnet Lacey vampire chick-lit series. Visit site.
David B. Coe
David B. Coe is the author of nine fantasy novels, including the books of the LonTobyn Chronicle, Winds of the Forelands, and Blood of the Southlands. 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.
Daryl Gregory
Daryl GregoryDaryl's a science fiction writer who lives in State College, PA. Several of his short stories have appeared in "Year's Best" anthologies, and his first novel, PANDEMONIUM, will appearing in Fall 2008 from Del Rey Books. Visit site.
Jackie Kessler
David B. Coe
David B. Coe is the author of nine fantasy novels, including the books of the LonTobyn Chronicle, Winds of the Forelands, and Blood of the Southlands. 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.
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.
Kate Elliott
Kate ElliottKate Elliott is the author of multiple fantasy and science fiction novels, including the Crown of Stars series and the Novels of the Jaran. She's currently working on Crossroads; the first novel, Spirit Gate, is already out, and Shadow Gate will be published in Spring 2008. Visit site.
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