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A J Hartley

Act of Will

Anthology

Rum and Runestones w/stuart

David B Coe

Robin Hood

Faith Hunter

Blood Cross

Misty Massey

Mad Kestrel

Getting Published: My Mistakes I

A few weeks ago I was speaking to a Sisters in Crime meeting and I realized that my mini autobiography had morphed into a series of bullets that might be titled Don’t Do This: A writer’s Guide to Decades of Failure. As some of you will know, mine was a long road to getting published, [...]

Writing Fantasy: I can do better than that!

[Note: By this afternoon I'll be on a plane to the UK so I won't be able to respond to comments after noon Eastern. I'll do my best to jump back into the conversation later in the weekend.]

Stephen King has said that most readers have a moment early in life when they throw a book [...]

Writing Fantasy and other Childishness

I was at an academic conference some years ago, hanging out at the bar with a bunch of colleagues and editors, when I mentioned that I wrote creative as well as scholarly material. There was some mild interest, though most of it evaporated when I said that I wrote genre fiction, and by the time [...]

Writing fantasy: Slotted Spoons and the ABCs of Beta readers

[Note: I'm at Thrillerfest in New York right now, and it may take me time to respond to comments. I will, of course, get to them all eventually! Best, AJH]

I was serving peas with dinner the other night, using a slotted spoon to get them out of the pan, and I had one of those [...]

Publishing Fantasy: Release Day!

Hi all,

David here. In our continuing attempt to keep the content here at MW fresh and exciting, we are introducing a new feature today. To mark the paperback release of A.J.’s first fantasy novel, ACT OF WILL, A.J. has written today’s post in the voice of his lead character, Will Hawthorne. In the future, you [...]

Writing Fantasy: Judging books by their covers. Again.

A few weeks ago, Misty posted a piece on the cover art of a new foreign edition of Mad Kestrel. This resonated strongly with me because in addition to the joy and bafflement of seeing the foreign editions of my thrillers, I’ve recently been mulling a drastic shift in the cover of my US fantasy [...]