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Fantasy Author's Handbook: Fantasy Author's Handbook – Advice for authors of fantasy, science fiction, and horror

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We should know by now: anytime someone maintains that a technology is inevitable, they’re asking us to give up any say we might have over that technology—asking us to give our ability to question, to alter, to refuse; they’re asking us to abandon our agency, the control of our future.

—Audrey Watters:


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And by this I mean both the books you have written, are writing, or might want to someday write—and the books you are reading, have read, and might ever want to read.

Every Tuesday I give $25 to a charity. This is just something I do—something I’ve been doing for years now. That works out to $100 a month—or so. Actually, $1300 a year ($25 x 52 weeks). That sounds li...


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Francis Bacon died four hundred years ago this past April—a fact I only discovered when I picked up the next in the Harvard Classics series, which begins with a collect...


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You know I’m a huge proponent of the technique of show, don’t tell, and never miss an opportunity to proselytize on that subject. This week, let’s dive into the weeds on this and disarm a trap I see authors fall into fairly often.

That trap is to both show and tell in the same sentence. I see this most of the time in dialog. I’ll let our friends Galen and B...


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