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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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I’ve been sitting on this idea for a post on how, fundamentally, the publishing business has not changed at all in the past couple decades or so, but two things that have been in the (publishing) news this week made me think it’s time to actually write it.

People out there in places like BookTube or even the


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After reading 1000 Words by Jami Attenberg for our September 2026 GoodReads group read, I di...


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A short, quick post this week because I’m in Deadline Hell—no, wait, hold on a second…

I’m in Deadline Heaven.

But here’s what I did wrong. Some time ago—a few months, maybe—I set up two editing projects and did not register that they both had the same final turnover deadline of October 26, 2026. One is about 100,000 words, the other just under 12...


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I keep seeing Sam Altman everywhere, more and more, and in every photo, every video, every interview, as he promises AI will get better, is getting better, and everything will be fine someday, this is what his face betrays:


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I know it feels as though the world is unravelling around us, and though some terrible people have empowered other terrible people to do terrible things, those things are not being done without at least some opposition.

And then, also, a lot of us are simply getting on with it, and by “it” I mean creating art in all its amazing forms. I’d like to take this week to p...


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