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Hey all, it's been ages since I posted here. ^^; Two things. First, I'm trying to build a summer reading list before grad school, and would like ideas for things to put on it. I'm a huge Neil Gaiman fan, and also enjoy the works of Terry Pratchett, John Connelly's Book of Lost Things, Murakami Haruki, and Diana Wynne Jones, to name a few. I like ( Read more... )

I just wanted to share with you guys two giant leaps in the creative process for me. First, I got my first voice-acting role in the Metamor City fantasy podcast. It's written by a great author, Chris Lester, and can be downloaded here ( Read more... )

As I didn't see anything in the rules about advertising websites here, I decided to post this -- but also to put the ad itself under a cut just in case.

It is a forum-based community, and so no replacement for an LJ community, but I do think writers could find it to be very fun and helpful as it grows.

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Hi, everybody. I'll get right to the catch. I've entered my novel Wind Witch into the LeapFrog Writing Contest. First prize is a publishing contract (not in this lifetime), finalists get $150, and semi-finalists get a temporary spot on the LeapFrog website. I entered it last month, and they closed the boxes on May 1st. I'm lucky if I can even be a ( Read more... )

Why is it the whole fantasy creatures are usually the same in every book? Dragons are either the evil creatures that are meant to be slain or that must be trained. Unicorns are beautiful horse-like creatures that can always be ridden by pretty girls. Elves are basically humans with pointy ears, are sometimes short, and live forever. Werewolves are ( Read more... )

do other black people feel happy about the portrayal of black characters in fantasy literature? I'm 16yr old girl of Nigerian descent and have just re-read the Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini and was thinking about this quite seriously. In many of the fantasy novels I've read, the author either goes with the 'Calormenes' school of thinking ( Read more... )

An article by Xanth author Piers Anthony on writing Humor!

Hey, I'm new here and I've recently began reading a lot again after about a year of nothing and I'm looking for as many new books as I can get my hands on. Does anyone have any fantasy rec's? Any favorites?

 Two questions: one, how long have any of you been writing (this does not include getting published)?
                              two, if any of you are published, what books have you written?