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No Mother Tongue: Language in the World of Magic
Written by V. E. Schwab I am not a linguist—I barely speak French, and that’s after studying it for four years—but I knew from the outset that the Shades of Magic series would feature not only multiple...
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OPORDS and SOPMOD Kits: Launching into the Great Unknown
Written by Nancy Kress Why would any writer choose to write a novel about a subject he or she is completely unfamiliar with? There are subjects I know quite a bit about, at least for a layman: genetic...
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Shades of Hamilton
Written by V. E. Schwab What story features a collection of young, scrappy, and hungry leads, an out-of-touch king, an unlikely ensemble of friends and adversaries, and a wealth of fabulous military...
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The Stars of The Queens of Innis Lear
Written by Tessa Gratton “This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeits of our own behavior, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and...
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Hadens, Chris Shane, Gender and Me
Written by John Scalzi About five years ago, when I started writing Lock In, for which my upcoming novel Head On is the sequel, I decided one important thing about the protagonist, Chris Shane: I...
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Are you a hero or a villain?
Everyone loves a good villain. At least, we definitely do! But what does that say about you, as a person? It might mean nothing, but it might mean everything. Not sure if you’d be the hero or the...
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The Best or Worst-Timed Title Ever?
The Consuming Fire is close at hand! So we’re revisiting John Scalzi’s 2017 post “The Best or Worst-Timed Title Ever?” on Book 1, The Collapsing Empire. Written by John Scalzi So here in 2017, when...
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Never Out of Date: The Past as Fantasy, and Our Fantasies of the Past
In honor of the upcoming release of Amnesty, the third book in the Amberlough Dossier series by Lara Elena Donnelly, we’re revisiting her guest blog post about how the past influenced the writing of...
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Samurai, Octopuses, and Time-Traveling Lesbians: An Interview with Annalee...
2019 has been a wild year so far, and it’s made a lot of us crave well…a different timeline. Thankfully, Tor authors Annalee Newitz and Alison Wilgus have wrote this year about one of our all-time...
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Rules vs. Guidelines in Fantasy
The Witness for the Dead is hitting shelves on 06/22 and to celebrate, we’re doing a throwback to this amazing Rules vs. Guidelines in Fantasy guest post from author Katherine Addison! Check it out...
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