LAURENCE MACNAUGHTON

  • You heard right, true believers.  I’m giving away a brand-new book from Jack Campbell’s New York Times bestselling series, The Lost Fleet!  And you could win it.  You!  How?  Read on! I’m hoping that you’ll love this book so much…

  • David Weber is author of the New York Times best-selling Honor Harrington novels, as well as a mind-boggling array of other books.  On top of that, he’s a really nice guy who took the time to share a glimpse into…

  • I’m thrilled to announce the very first SciFiBookshelf free book giveaway!  I’ve been working hard to fit it in with all of the award-winning author interviews, science fiction news and fun stuff you can use.  But the time has finally…

  • Mario Acevedo is one of those rare authors who is so understated, so easygoing, that it’s almost tough to believe that he’s a bestselling author.  Tough, that is, until you pick up one of his vampire books and quickly realize…

  • David Weber is author of the New York Times best-selling Honor Harrington novels, as well as a mind-boggling array of other books.  On top of that, he’s a really nice guy who took the time to share a glimpse into…

  • Mario Acevedo, the bestselling author of Jailbait Zombie and Werewolf Smackdown, is launching his first-ever comic book Killing the Cobra.  If you’re in the Denver area, why not come to the launch party? Killing the Cobra Comic Book Launch PartyMay…

  • Author Stephen King (yes, that Stephen King) has said that science fiction author Robert Charles Wilson is “a hell of a storyteller and the geek factor in his books is zero.”  He also said that Wilson is “probably the finest…

  • David Weber is author of the New York Times best-selling Honor Harrington novels, as well as a mind-boggling array of other books.  On top of that, he’s a really nice guy who took the time to share a glimpse into…

  • Just in: your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man and a handful of Jedi Knights nabbed a would-be comic book thief, in a real-life heist gone comically wrong.  Stranger than fiction?  You bet.  Here’s a link to the article:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/7673705/Spider-Man-comes-to-the-rescue-in-comic-book-store-robbery.html

  • Mario Acevedo, the bestselling author of Jailbait Zombie and Werewolf Smackdown, leaps into the world of comic books this month with the release of Killing the Cobra.  If you haven’t checked out Acevedo’s wise-cracking vampire P.I. in any of his…

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  • Want to Get Published? Read This.

    I’ve talked to dozens of best-selling authors about their early years, before they were published. And the similarities between them are striking. On average, they wrote about half a dozen unpublished manuscripts before they sold a novel. (By the way, this is what I call the Myth of the First Novel. Because it’s hardly ever…

  • Compelling Character Arcs in 4 Easy Steps

    I’ll let you in on a secret: readers want your character to change. They know, deep down, that your character is unhappy with the status quo at the beginning of your book. Something is terribly wrong in your character’s life, and things can’t keep going on this way. Something’s got to give. Readers fervently hope…