The six-week Clarion writers’ workshop is now accepting applications for 2011. It’s a six-week workshop for writers of science fiction and fantasy, featuring six writer-instructors. It’s harrowing, merciless, brutal, and life-changing.  Fifty percent of the graduates eventually stagger on to some kind of career in the field. Check it out.

This post belongs to my good friend MLN Hanover, whose new book Vicious Grace has just been released.  Vicious Grace is Book III of The Black Sun’s Daughter, which (as you can tell by the heavily armed, seminude voluptuous female on the cover) is an urban fantasy series. Urban fantasy isn’t always my personal cup […]

Because it’s the Season.

Some of you may recall my post of a couple weeks ago, in which I lambasted author James Frey for the exploitative methods used in his fiction factory, Full Fathom Five.  According to an article in New York, Frey was recruiting naive MFA students to write YA series while paying them a big $250 advance […]