What do Steven Barnes, Agent DongWon Song, and indie publishing guru Anthea Lawson Sharp  all have in common? A: They’ll all be in...

Photo by Daniel Ebon For our concluding interview in my Ways into Worldbuilding series, I am honored to welcome a distinguished voice in...

Sharon Shinn has published 26 novels, one collection, and assorted pieces of short fiction since her first book came out in 1995. Among...

Guest posts for the Ways into Worldbuilding series will appear on two more Wednesdays. This latest interview is Django Wexler graduated...

Louise Marley is a former concert and opera singer, and the author of 18 novels of fantasy, science fiction, and historical fiction.  A...

Guest posts for the Ways into Worldbuilding series will appear most Wednesdays through early November. This week’s guest is C.S.E....

Guest posts for Ways into Worldbuilding will appear most Wednesdays through early November. Today’s post is from one of our industry’s...

Guest posts for the Ways into Worldbuilding series will appear most Wednesdays through early November. Today I welcome one of my favorite...

Guest posts for the Ways into Worldbuilding series will appear most Wednesdays through early November. We lead off with L. E. Modesitt,...

Today I hit a muddy patch in the novel. Not exactly a brick wall. Not really a bout of writer’s block, but a serious resistance to doing...

For writers, what is the hardest part of a novel? Maybe it’s page 1 and page 400–and many big chunks in between. Some books go like that....

It’s a perverted fact of the universe that writers are sometimes stumped about what to write. Give them a snappy first line in a timed...

Scenes are the building blocks of the long story. One simple step can save your next scene. Even with the loosest of plot outlines,...

Have you got aphids in your story? destroying the pacing inserting flab into lines and pages sending the plot wandering The story may be...

. . . and it was full of other discouraged writers. OK, lame joke. But sometimes you just have to laugh. It’s that aggravating. Writing,...

I’m recently back from WorldCon (Sasquan) in Spokane. There were panels on topics related to books, writing, science, fandom, and issues...

If you have a question or two you’d like to ask me about my writing or writing in general, now’s a good time. upcoming books writing...

The weekend of May 16th I’m helping out with my favorite local writing conference. If you live in the Pacific Northwest, you really...

Sean Astin as Sam Gamgee. Can you describe your character’s essence or their raison d’etre, in a short phrase? How about Sam Gamgee’s...

Here’s my list. The SF/F/H books I enjoyed the most out of the–um, hundreds?–of books I read this year! Not all published in 2014. We Are...