SciFiFanLetter is a blog kept by an employee at the World’s Biggest Bookstore in Toronto, Canada who oversees the SciFi/Fantasy section. She updates it regularly with upcoming books, and occasionally makes very cool lists like this list of Urban Fantasy Private Investigators. If you are interested in writing in this genre, it’s good to know […]
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Posted in Novel Writing, Fiction, Fiction Author Blogs, Fiction Writing Blogs, jim butcher, urban fantasy, furs fangs & fey, livejournal, holly black, urban fantasy land, urban fantasy fan, small favor on Jan 31st, 2008 1 Comment »
If you’re a fan of Urban Fantasy novels, either as a writer or a reader, you may find these resources of use.
There is a LiveJournal community comprised of published authors including high profile ones like Holly Black. You can check out their front page at Fur, Fangs & Fey. It aggregates the blog entries of […]
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I didn’t plan on covering online resources for genre writers of fiction until this fall, but I stumbled across a crazy good site I wanted to highlight.
Writer Unboxed is a blog-based site "about the craft and business of genre fiction." Two writers studying what made successful genre fiction work created the site to share their […]
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Lynn Viehl is a successful writer who has published 37 novels in 5 genres. She also posts regularly on her blog, Paperback Writer. Today she lists 10 computer programs that writers can try for free, including book authoring software, a grammar helper and, the one I need the most, a program that will nag you […]
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Back when I was in college as an English major, I was accepted as a summer intern in the Editorial department of one of the few Los Angeles based book publishers, an independent non-fiction house. I spent that summer reading unsolicited manuscripts, looking for that unpolished gem that I could recommend to the editors. Three […]
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