A Conversation with the First Ladies of Fantasy

    Standing L-R, Nancy Knight, Laurell K. Hamilton, Sherrilyn Kenyon and Mercedes Lackey. Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, sitting. Four groundbreaking New York Times’ bestselling authors – Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Mercedes

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I am still in recovery mode coming off the high of DragonCon 2012, which drew more than 60,000 SF and fantasy fans this weekend to downtown Atlanta.While the “people watching”

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  Writer and avid kayaker Jane Shirley. Writer Jane Shirley, today’s guest blogger on The Writing Well, shares her process for creating a strong narrative voice. Jane knows of what

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Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy in BBCs  production of “Pride and Prejudice.” Flawed characters, from Jane Austen’s pompous Mr. Darcy to J.K. Rowling’s geeky wizard Harry Potter, can make or break a

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My five-year-old daughter was very proud of this portrait she created of our extended family.  “Make four copies and give them to Aunt Lisa, Uncle Mike, Uncle Matt and Grandpa,”

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Every Friday during May I am inviting a member of my writer’s group to be a guest blogger. Today I’m excited to introduce new SciFi storyteller Shane Etter, a Mississippi

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Regardless of whether you are writing a blog or a novel, you need to find your unique “voice.” In fact, putting your personality into your prose is the “secret” to

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  Today is the WordCount Blogathon Swap Day! Fellow blogger, Kathryn Lance, the author of more than 50 published books of fiction and nonfiction, shares the importance of showing rather

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    On Saturday I’m at TJ Maxx when I come to an aisle filled with stationery, writing journals, and tablets of paper. My son picks up a black leather-bound

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John Irving. I read a profile on John Irving last night in TIME. The American novelist, who penned his first novel at age 26 in 1968 and went on to

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