Author Spotlight: Joe R. Lansdale
Write for yourself, write like everyone you know is dead. Then when you finish you can worry about who might like it.
Jennifer Konieczny
Jennifer Konieczny hails from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. An alumna of Villanova University, she now pursues her doctorate in medieval studies at the University of Toronto. She enjoys working with fourteenth-century Latin legal texts, slushing for Fantasy Magazine, and scanning bookshelves for new authors to read.
Artist Spotlight: J.P. Targete
Personally I feel environments can sometimes give you more insight into a story then a portrait especially if the environment is closely connected to that story.
Author Spotlight: Theodora Goss
I struggled at first, because I couldn’t find the right voice to write it in. But then I thought of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca, that sort of nostalgic tone, and I wrote in that sort of voice.
Author Spotlight: Tim Pratt
I’m not sure why the protagonist ended up being such a miserable bastard. Perhaps because miserable bastards need magical beaches the most.
Author Spotlight: Carrie Vaughn
There’s evidence that quite a few women disguised themselves and took the seas. Fast Ships, Black Sails included quite a few stories about women pirates. Should I bring up Cutthroat Island? No?
Author Spotlight: Laura Anne Gilman
In this week’s Author Spotlight, we ask author Laura Anne Gilman to tell us a bit about her story for Fantasy, “Crossroads.”
Author Spotlight: J. S. Breukelaar
My stories are peopled by chance encounters. By dream characters, minor players in novels who get under my skin, stuff on the cutting room floor, a stray bar of music or scrap of lyric.
Author Spotlight: Cat Rambo
The story owes a great deal to Fritz Leiber’s “The Sinful Ones,” which horrified and fascinated me when I read it in high school.
Author Spotlight: Genevieve Valentine
While I was writing Mechanique, I watched hundreds of hours of circus footage—both the shows themselves and whatever behind-the-scenes material I could get my hands on.
Author Spotlight: Carrie Vaughn
You have to constantly ask, what’s being betrayed: the unicorns themselves, or the medieval cultural ideal of them? If the latter, is that a bad thing? Is it betrayal or subversion?