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Well, maybe “tells all” is a bit of a stretch, but I did get an evil laugh (“Mwahahahahah!”) out of her. Kat Richardson is the national bestselling author of the Greywalker series, which features gritty private-eye suspense with a supernatural…
I had the pleasure of meeting Dan Aykroyd at a liquor store recently. As if that weren’t surreal enough, he promptly smiled and handed me a skull. A glass skull, in fact, full of vodka. “Her name is Joy,” he…
David Sherman is the co-author (with Dan Cragg) of the acclaimed military science fiction Starfist series. As a Marine, he fought in Vietnam, and brings his real-life experience to his writing. The fourteenth Starfist book, Double Jeopardy, came out in…
Jeffrey A. Carver was a 2001 Nebula finalist, and is famed not only as the author of the Star Rigger books and the Chaos Chronicles series, but also for writing the Battlestar Galactica novelization. His latest science fiction novel, Sunborn,…
Harry Connolly is making waves with his debut novel Child of Fire, the start of a new urban fantasy series that mixes explosive action with magic. Harry was kind enough to share some insights with Sci Fi Bookshelf about dark…
This Is Not a Game is not just a cool title, but a cool near-future novel from acclaimed science fiction writer Walter Jon Williams, who has been nominated for every major SF award, including the Hugo and the Nebula Award.…
Mike Resnick is the leading award winner for short fiction among all science fiction writers, living or dead. He has won five Hugo Awards, a Nebula Award, and has been nominated for 30 Hugos, 11 Nebulas, a Clarke (British), six…
A funny thing happened on the way to the science fiction aisle. I found myself hankering for something new, something different, something I’d never seen before. You know that cool look-what-I-found moment when you stumble across something incredibly neat, and…
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 On average, they wrote about half a dozen unpublished manuscripts before they sold a novel.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…
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…
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