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A J Hartley

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Special Guest Stars – Jagi Lamplighter

Our friend Jagi Lamplighter’s latest book, Prospero In Hell, hits store shelves this week. It’s the second volume in her well-received Prospero’s Daughter series. We’re delighted to welcome her back to Magical Words!

All About The Wonder: Why I Write Fantasy

Yesterday, I met my first grader at the bus after school. As [...]

Special Guest: Jessica Wade!

Greetings, dear readers!

I’m Jessica Wade, and I’m an editor at Ace and Roc, the science fiction and fantasy imprints of Penguin. The lovely Faith (AKA Gwen) Hunter asked me to write a guest post for you all, and in this case I’m going to follow the age-old dictate that says ‘write what you know’ [...]

Benjamin Tate - Ripples on Water

Today please welcome our special guest Benjamin Tate, author of the exciting new fantasy, Well of Sorrows. Benjamin, a college professor in Endicott NY, began writing seriously in graduate school, using the fantasy world of “Well of Sorrows” as an escape from the stress. “Well” is his first novel, to be followed [...]

Special Guest: P J Haarsma!

A while back, my 8th grade boys went absolutely mad for a new science fiction series called The Softwire, by PJ Haarsma. No matter how many copies we bought, they always stayed checked out, with a long hold list. Fast forward a few months to DragonCon, where I happened to run into that [...]

Today’s Special Guest: Blake Charlton

I first met Blake Charlton in San Jose last fall, at the World Fantasy Convention.  Blake is a sibling of a sort:  His editor is also my editor.  And so I looked upon him initially as a younger brother.  An incredibly bright, talented, capable, charming, funny, good-looking younger brother.  In other words I hated his [...]

The Battle of the E-Books — Kim Harrison

Today we welcome out special guest, Kim Harrison. Kim has agreed to post here a few times a year, whenever she has something interesting  to offer about the business. Welcome Kim!

The battle of the e-books has spilled onto my desk.

I’m great at staying out of trouble most times.  You may have noticed that I’ve been very [...]