In Storyteller: Writing Lessons and More from 27 Years of the Clarion Writers’ Workshop, Kate Wilhelm wrote, “Great fiction reveals that there is no such thing as a common, everyday uninteresting person. They are all interesting if you learn enough about them to discover who lives behind the facade.” So we asked members of the […]
So maybe we aren’t the best awards prognosticators, but you’ll forgive us for making the wrong call on the winner of the 2015 Nebula Award for Best Novel: after three previous nominations, we were sure N.K. Jemisin would finally take home the trophy for the dazzlingly accomplished, apocalyptic epic fantasy The Fifth Season. Instead, the […]
Over the weekend, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America announced the nominees for the 2015 Nebula Awards. If the Hugos are the People’s Choice of genre honors, voted on by the fans, the Nebulas are the Oscars: as with those industry awards, membership in SWFA is a requirement to vote, and to be a […]