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November 16th 2008
How do you get to Carnegie Hall?
When I was in graduate school, one of the things I studied were role-playing games. (Yes, my university let me write papers on Dungeons and Dragons and all its intellectual descendants.) I learned all kinds of fascinating things, taking apart my hobby to see how it worked, and one of those things had […]
November 15th 2008
More Thoughts on David B. Coe’s Post
I agree with David. If you don’t threaten your characters in some way, you lose a certain amount of dramatic tension. Which is fine if you’re writing a romance, where the reader loves the book precisely because they know how the book is going to end (it’s how you’re going to get there that’s all […]
November 15th 2008
Science and Science Fiction
One of the hats I wear from time to time is my science educator hat. At an earlier point in my writing career I wrote a series of hard science fiction short stories designed to help teach physical science for the InterActions in Physical Science middle school curriculum, which was funded by the National Science […]
November 14th 2008
The Sneer
A peek into the inner workings of sfnovelists. The blog here is our public face, but we actually talk to each, too. Mostly we talk about business-related topics, but sometimes something less professional strikes a chord, and a symphony breaks out.
Or maybe it’s something more like a bunch of dogs howling at the moon. Anyway…
Lately […]
November 11th 2008
Rejections As A Way Of Keeping Score
I have something north of 450 rejections to my name at this point and that doesn’t even count my dating days. I used to keep much closer track and could have told you the exact number but the combination of relative success and having had a couple of agents in the mix over the years […]
November 5th 2008
Start something new
It seems to be the time for it.
It’s the “morning after”. There remains little to be said that hasn’t been said already. Good bye, Maverick. Good luck, Obama.
But it’s like those happily-ever-after stories. The election was the endgame, and afterwards… well… they lived happily ever after, you betcha. And this is a fine case in […]
October 31st 2008
Trick or Treat - for Children’s Literacy!
I am conducting a fundraiser for the children’s literacy charity, First Book, which gives low-income kids their first books to read and own.
The fundraiser is in two parts: 1) A calendar for sale featuring 12 recipes created by several genre authors in honor of the Cake Walk bakery featured in my Jane Madison Series of […]
October 16th 2008
Blood, love, and rhetoric
PLAYER: We’re more of the blood, love, and rhetoric school. […] I can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and I can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and I can do you all three concurrent or consecutive, but I can’t do you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is […]
October 15th 2008
I Love My Editors – Part 2
I’m not much of a short story writer, which is why my second editorial relationship is quite different from my first. It’s also why, when Scott H. Andrews of the great new magazine Beneath Ceaseless Skies said he was interested in my story if I did X, Y, and Z, I immediately went out and […]
October 11th 2008
There’s Nothing Wrong With Happily Ever After
Nor, for that matter, is there anything inherently wrong with “they all died tragically.” One of the bedrock problems that you run into in any discussion of fiction is the idea that there is some objective way of determining if a story is good.* I don’t believe that there is, in part because fiction isn’t […]
Author Information
Marie Brennan
Marie Brennan is the author of several fantasy novels and short stories, including the Elizabethan faerie spy fantasy Midnight Never Come. 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.
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.
Mike Brotherton
Professional astronomer, science fiction novelist (Star Dragon, Spider Star). 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.
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 eight novels, including the popular paranormal romances GIRL'S GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT and SORCERY AND THE SINGLE GIRL. Mindy also wrote the award-winning, best-selling Glasswrights series and the stand-alone fantasy novel, SEASON OF SACRIFICE. Visit site.
Marie Brennan
Marie Brennan is the author of several fantasy novels and short stories, including the Elizabethan faerie spy fantasy Midnight Never Come. 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.
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.
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