ABOUT KELLY McCLYMER Kelly McClymer started her writing career in short science fiction, moved to novel length historical romance and then shifted over to fantasy YA. Who knows what she’ll write next. You can visit Kelly at her website,http://kellymcclymer.com. 5 … Read More

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Kath here. Please welcome back L. B. Gale to WU. The response to her first guest post with us was so positive, we asked her back for another, and happily, she agreed! L.B. works in education as a literacy specialist in New… Read More

Good morning, FWJ friends! Here are your freelance writing jobs for today. Freelance Writing Jobs Content Writing Freelance Writers – Marijuana.com (Remote) Blogging Jobs Boating Blogger (Anywhere) Bloggers to Review Product  Wedding and Lifestyle Blogger (Fort Lauderdale) Bloggers – ACM… Read More

Good morning, FWJ friends! Here are your freelance writing jobs for today. Freelance Writing Jobs Content Writing Freelance Writers – Marijuana.com (Remote) Blogging Jobs Boating Blogger (Anywhere) Bloggers to Review Product  Wedding and Lifestyle Blogger (Fort Lauderdale) Bloggers – ACM… Read More

Good morning, FWJ friends! Here are your freelance writing jobs for today. Freelance Writing Jobs Content Writing Freelance Writers – Marijuana.com (Remote) Blogging Jobs Boating Blogger (Anywhere) Bloggers to Review Product  Wedding and Lifestyle Blogger (Fort Lauderdale) Bloggers – ACM… Read More

In the wake of Hunger Games success, Lionsgate Entertainment acquired the film rights to the young-adult fantasy series, Patrick Ness‘ Chaos Walking trilogy. Academy Award-winning screenwriter Charlie Kaufman will adapt the first book, The Knife of Never Letting Go.… Read More

Mortal Instruments author Cassandra Clare and The Spiderwick Chronicles author Holly Black have landed a book deal for a five-book middle grade fantasy series. Scholastic will publish the first book, The Iron Trial, in 2014. Editorial director David Levithan negotiated the… Read More

I want to do something a bit different today. My new book The Boggle Hunters, a fantasy adventure novel for kids aged 8-12 has just come out this month in Australia (Scholastic Press Australia) and I want to talk about… Read More

HBO has ordered a third season of its adaptation of Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin. Above, we’ve embedded a trailer for the second season. The cable network broke the news on Twitter: “Game of Thrones… Read More

No matter what you write – whether it’s romance, literary fiction, fantasy, or the increasingly popular genre of historical vampire chick-lit zombie western mystery – at some point each of you will be called upon to write about the same… Read More

Actress and web video producer Felicia Day has launched a nerdy YouTube channel called Geek & Sundry. The new channel will include a video version of the Sword & Laser book club and Written by a Kid–a storytelling show narrated… Read More

We have a wonderful interview today with Kim Antieau. She is the author of the mainstream action adventure fiction novel, Her Frozen Wild. Enjoy the interview and please check her book out! Kim has written many novels, short… Read More

Cassandra Clare has landed a deal for a new young adult series called The Dark Artifices. Margaret K. McElderry Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing, will release the first book in 2015. Editorial director Karen Wojtyla negotiated the… Read More

The Roundup is back in its regularly scheduled slot–Saturdays before noon! Tyrannosaurus on a truck might be the scariest thing you’ll see on your commute These colliding galaxy clusters challenge everything we know about dark matter Stunning fantasy short about… Read More

Listen: Jeannine Hall Gailey – “Anime Girl Delays Adulthood” Jeannine Hall Gailey’s poem “Anime Girl Delays Adulthood” is a part of a series of poems that utilize a character she’s created called Anime Girl. This poem is great; it’s diverse;… Read More

After receiving an ultimatum from PayPal last month, the self publishing platform Smashwords updated its policy, restricting books from including stories with bestiality, rape and incest. PayPal cracked down on erotic content in the company’s vast catalog, threatening to cut off… Read More

Therese here. Today’s guest is someone who’s been a WU lurker for over a year and half: L.B. Gale. L.B. works as an educator–a literacy specialist–in New York City, and is an aspiring fantasy author who received her Master’s degree… Read More

You have a great concept for a science fiction, fantasy, or horror novel, but when it comes to crafting names of people, places, and things you’ve invented, you stumble. Fortunately, it’s easier than you might think to assign identities: If… Read More

The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America has responded to the Amazon/Independent Publishers Group (IPG)  contract lapse by removing Amazon links for books on its website The site now links to other retailers, including Indiebound.org, Powell’s and Barnes &… Read More

Tor Books has set a January 8, 2013 release date for A Memory of Light, the final book in The Wheel of Time series–concluding the epic fantasy created by the late Robert Jordan. After Jordan died in 2007, novelist… Read More

1. The Canker Death is not easy to classify. I realize that many authors say this of their novels. I only started saying so after my literary agent, editor, and, later, my readers all told me so. Oddly enough, I… Read More

At the Inside Social Apps conference in San Francisco today, Gaia CEO Mike Sego (pictured) introduced attendees to Gaia Online, a popular community and social game site. Here’s more about the site: “Founded in 2003, Gaia Online has grown into one… Read More

They sell books, don’t they? This week, Amazon and Barnes & Noble make news over which books they sell – and which ones they won’t. And a new entry in the fantasy genre, Rose Fox tells us, finds Hurricane Katrina… Read More

Author Maggie Stiefvater has landed a deal with Scholastic for a four-book epic fantasy series. The first book, The Raven Boys, is slated for release in September. The Raven Boys stars Richard Campbell Gansey, III (a boy who “has it… Read More

It never feels good to set a manuscript aside when the writing’s going well. Sadly, because I’ve never mastered the art of working on two books at once, I’m putting my half-written YA novel on hold for the next few… Read More

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to announce Stephanie Keyes’ The Star Child Virtual Book Tour 2012 beginning February 6  and ending on February 29 2012. Stephanie will be on hand during this worldwide online book tour talking about her… Read More

Fantasy authors Neil Gaiman and Todd McFarlane have settled their decade long dispute about who owns the copyright to Spawn characters that Gaiman created for McFarlane’s comic book in a guest appearance. In 2002, Gaiman filed his first suit claiming… Read More

Alex Pardee turns the world’s greatest superheroes into freakish monsters. Retrospective: Final Fantasy IV [U.S. II] Remains a Masterpiece After All These Years. What is ACTA? Why Should You Care? Odin Sphere Should Be A Benchmark For Video Game Storytelling.… Read More

Actor Tom Isbell has landed a seven-figure book deal at HarperCollins’ children’s division for a young adult fantasy trilogy. The first book is entitled The Hatchery. Literary agent Victoria Sanders negotiated the deal with acquiring editors Alyson Day and Phoebe Yeh… Read More

Digital publisher Open Road Integrated Media has hired Betsy Mitchell to serve as the company’s strategic advisor for science fiction and fantasy. The publishing veteran will head up acquisitions for science fiction and fantasy titles for Open Road’s “Author Brand… Read More