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Constructing Monster School: Plotters versus Pantsers
Today it's my great pleasure to welcome DC Green, who's written a fascinating guest post on plotting a novel. DC's latest book, Monster School, Book 1 of his City of Monsters series, is just out. I've read it and it's a wild, wise-cracking ride, a feast of the gloriously grotesque. And a great story, too. Over to you, DC.There are…
Legendary News – Helen Lowe and The Gathering Of The Lost Are Finalists For The David Gemmell Legend Award!
In April last year, I interviewed Helen Lowe about her newly released The Gathering Of The Lost (Gathering), the second novel in her Wall Of Night series—and now I’m delighted that Gathering has been shortlisted for the international David Gemmell Legend Award for Fantasy. I spent a couple of hours with David Gemmell at PhanCon, around 1999, when I was a newly published…
Web of Deceit – Katherine Howell's Latest Thriller
Bestselling Aussie author Katherine Howell's latest Ella Marconi thriller is out, and it's a ripper. Just ask NYT bestselling author Tess Gerritsen, who described Katherine's third novel, Cold Justice, as 'one of my favourite books of the year'. When paramedics Jane and Alex encounter a man refusing to get out of his crashed car, with bystanders saying he deliberately drove into a…
New Series coming from Traci Harding
My friend and long-time bestselling Aussie fantasy author Traci Harding has a new series coming real soon. Set in ancient China, DREAMING OF ZHOU GONG is a beautiful story of Hudan, one of the mysterious Wu who lives on the sacred mountain of Li Shan. The Wu have been living in isolation for decades while the Shang Emperor and his…
Kate Forsyth Fuddling Her Words
Aussie fantasy author Kate Forsyth, who's written dozens of books and is published in more than a dozen countries, had a moving article in the weekend magazines about her lifelong struggle with the spoken word, in particular, stuttering and spoonerisms. http://www.theage.com.au/lifestyle/fuddling-up-my-mucking-words-again-20121112-29751.html