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
Part one of an excerpt from the lecture Gordon Van Gelder gave at Odyssey in the summer of 2014 on the Fiction Publishing Market.
Author and Odyssey graduate Alex Hughes will be a guest lecturer at this summer’s Odyssey Writing Workshop. Alex was born in Savannah, GA, and moved to the south Atlanta area when she was eight years old. Shortly thereafter, her grandfather handed her a copy of Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonrider series, and Read more
Part two of an excerpt from the lecture Melanie Tem and Steve Rasnic Tem gave at Odyssey in the summer of 2014 on Beginnings, Middles, Ends, and Structure.
Writer-in-residence at this summer’s Odyssey Writing Workshop, Kij Johnson is widely considered one of the top fantasy/science fiction writing teachers in the country. She is the author of three novels—two fantasies set in classical Japan, The Fox Woman and Fudoki, and a Star Trek:The Next Generation novel—and a short story Read more
Part one of an excerpt from the lecture Melanie Tem and Steve Rasnic Tem gave at Odyssey in the summer of 2014 on Beginnings, Middles, Ends, and Structure.
Fantasy author Alma Alexander will be a guest lecturer at 2015’s summer Odyssey Writing Workshop. Alma Alexander’s life so far has prepared her very well for her chosen career. She was born in a country which no longer exists on the maps, has lived and worked in seven countries on Read more
An excerpt from the lecture Catherynne M. Valente gave at Odyssey in the summer of 2014 on the “system of credit” in openings and on titles.