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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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A couple weeks ago I challenged authors to go ahead and pay the $60 a year for the non-AI (Copilot) version of Microsoft Office, and so of course y’all have gone and done that as a new year’s present for yourself, right?

If you’re just starting out, or have been using it for a little while and have gone down some of this gigantic app’s various rabbit holes, please a...


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This is the last Tuesday and so the last Fantasy Author’s Handbook post of 2025…

Am I really going to write some kind of year-end wrap-up for what has been a great year for me, and one of the worst years ever for me—along with seemingly everyone else here in Republican-ravaged America… a crime still in progress?

But yeah… this isn’t a “political” blog, is ...


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Here in this penultimate week of 2025, thoughts turn to the next year, and dare I say New Years Resolutions? I’ve worked past that idea myself, but then this is a moment we can take to think about what worked for us in the past year, what didn’t work for us—as authors and as readers and as… people.

Carrying forward a bit from last week’s post, I’d like to offer this...


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Okay, the first step in recovery is to admit you have a problem…

Hi, I’m Phil, and I’m addicted to BookTube.

You know what that is, right? It’s the loose collection of YouTube channels in which people talk about books—their favorite and least favorite books, the books they just read or are planning to read, the books they just bought, and all that surround...


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