Rebecca Roland is a 2007 graduate of the Odyssey Writing Workshop (and chief correspondent for this blog). She is the author of the Shards of History series, and The King of Ash and Bones, and Other Stories, all published with World Weaver Press, as well as The Necromancer’s Inheritance series. Her short fiction Read more
Mike Grinti is a 2003 graduate of the Odyssey Writing Workshop. He and his wife, Rachel, cowrote two books: Claws (2012) and Jala’s Mask (released last November). They write middle grade fantasy, though they have dipped into YA on occasion. They met at a writing workshop in 2002, though they Read more
Mike Grinti is a 2003 graduate of the Odyssey Writing Workshop. He and his wife, Rachel, cowrote two books: Claws (2012) and Jala’s Mask (released last November). They write middle grade fantasy, though they have dipped into YA on occasion. They met at a writing workshop in 2002, though they Read more
Eileen Wiedbrauk is Editor-in-Chief of World Weaver Press and Red Moon Romance, as well as a writer, blogger, book reviewer, coffee addict, cat herder, MFA graduate, fantasist-turned-fabulist-turned-urban-fantasy-junkie, Odyssey Workshop alumna, photographer, designer, tech geek, entrepreneur, avid reader, and a somewhat-decent cook. She wears many hats, as the saying goes. Which is an Read more
Part two of an excerpt from the lecture Delia Sherman and Ellen Kushner gave at Odyssey in the summer of 2014 on Characterization.
Melanie Tem was an author and writer-in-residence whose works won the Bram Stoker Award, the World Fantasy Award, and the British Fantasy Award, among others. She often cowrote stories and novels with her husband, Steve Rasnic Tem. They shared a passion for working with developing writers, and served Odyssey as Read more
Part one of an excerpt from the lecture Delia Sherman and Ellen Kushner gave at Odyssey in the summer of 2014 on Characterization.
Jeanne Cavelos is the director of the Odyssey Writing Workshops Charitable Trust, which is in its 20th year of operation. She was a senior editor at Bantam Doubleday Dell, where she worked for eight years, editing the fantasy/science fiction program, the Abyss horror line, and other fiction and nonfiction. Jeanne Read more
Part two of an excerpt from the lecture Gordon Van Gelder gave at Odyssey in the summer of 2014 on the Fiction Publishing Market.
Guest lecturer Brendan DuBois is an award-winning mystery, suspense and science-fiction author. Mr. DuBois is a former newspaper reporter and a lifelong resident of New Hampshire, where he lives with his wife Mona, their hell-raising cat Bailey, and one happy English Springer Spaniel named Spencer. He is at work on Read more