WFC2023
Always save the cat. Prologues are verboten. Beware of mixing your genres. Avoid passive voice at all costs. We all know the rules, but aren’t they really more like guidelines? What can you get away with breaking, by how much, and for how long? And if you’re going to break the rules, what do you …
A conversation with our Editor Guest of Honor, Jonathan Strahan Jonathan Strahan, Gary K. Wolfe Empire A/B
A conversation with our Author Guest of Honor, Adam-Troy Castro Adam-Troy Castro, Scott Edelman Empire A/B
A conversation with our Author Guest of Honor, Kij Johnson Kij Johnson, Gary Wolfe Empire A/B
A conversation with our Artist Guest of Honor, Elizabeth Leggett Elizabeth Leggett, Lauren Raye Snow Empire A/B
A fun, low-stakes writing workshop that uses spooky cards for writing prompts, a timed writing session, and an impromptu open mic at the end for people to share what they’ve written. C.S.E. Cooney, Carlos Hernandez Empire A/B
So you want to be an author, but you also have to pay the bills. The harsh truth is only a very, very small percentage of authors actually make a living from their craft. For the majority of us, that means maintaining a day job. How do you balance the demands on your time without …
All you have to do is Google “Fantasy Art” and you’ll see thousands of sites that list fantasy artwork for sale. Is the plethora of fantasy artwork helping or hurting the fiction genre? In what ways? Penelope Flynn (M), Elizabeth Leggett, Sultana Raza Empire A/B
Individual authors, artists, and even small press publishing companies are using Kickstarter more and more in order to fund new projects. What kinds of projects do or don’t work well on the platform? And what are the strategies a publisher can use in order to make the launch as strong as possible? Joshua Palmatier (M), …
While often an artwork is created to depict a story that already exists, so too does art in turn inspire fresh stories. What artworks in fantasy or horror have generated such stories? Artists who have created illustrations from both perspectives discuss the details behind each. Elizabeth Leggett (M), Sam W. Pisciotta, C.S.E. Cooney, Nikki Rossignol …