Excerpts from question-and-answer sessions with Your Personal Odyssey guest lecturers
Paul Park was a 2024 guest lecturer for Your Personal Odyssey Writing Workshop. Paul is the author of A Princess of Roumania and numerous other novels. He published his first novel in the 1980s and swiftly attracted notice as one of the finest authors on the “humanist” wing of American SF. His powerful, Read more
Rebecca F. Kuang was a 2024 guest lecturer for Your Personal Odyssey Writing Workshop. Rebecca is the #1 New York Times and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of the Poppy War trilogy, Babel: An Arcane History, Yellowface, and Katabasis (forthcoming). Her work has won the Nebula, Locus, Crawford, and British Book Awards. She has been named to the 2023 Read more
Jessie Mihalik was a 2024 Your Personal Odyssey Writing Workshop guest. Jessie has a degree in Computer Science and a love of all things geeky. A software engineer by trade, Jessie now writes full time from her home in Central Texas. She’s the author of three romantic space opera trilogies and Read more
Since launching this blog in 2008, the Odyssey Writing Workshops Charitable Trust has shared numerous posts aimed at helping writers of fantasy, science fiction, and horror improve their craft. With so much content over so many years, it’s easy to miss things, so this month we’re highlighting some of the Read more
David Corbett was a 2023 guest lecturer for Your Personal Odyssey Writing Workshop. David is the author of seven novels, which have been nominated for numerous awards, including the Edgar®. His second novel, Done for a Dime, was a New York Times Notable Book, and Patrick Anderson of the Washington Post described it as “one of Read more
E. C. Ambrose was a 2023 guest lecturer for Your Personal Odyssey Writing Workshop. She writes knowledge-inspired adventure fiction including the five-volume Dark Apostle series about medieval surgery, The Singer’s Legacy fantasy series as Elaine Isaak, and the Bone Guard international thrillers as E. Chris Ambrose. The Dark Apostle started Read more
Award-winning author Tim Waggoner is a 2023 guest lecturer for the Your Personal Odyssey Writing Workshop. Tim has published over fifty novels and seven collections of short stories. He writes original dark fantasy and horror, as well as media tie-ins, and his articles on writing have appeared in numerous publications. Read more
NAACP Image Award winner and New York Times bestselling novelist Steven Barnes is a 2023 guest lecturer for Your Personal Odyssey Writing Workshop. Steven has published over three million words of science fiction, suspense, horror, mystery, and fantasy, comprising over thirty novels. In television, he wrote the Emmy-winning “A Stitch Read more
Award-winning author Nancy Kress is a 2023 guest lecturer for the Your Personal Odyssey Writing Workshop. Nancy is the author of thirty-five books, including twenty-eight novels, four collections of short stories, and three books on writing. Her work has won six Nebulas (for “Beggars in Spain,” “The Flowers of Aulit Prison,” Read more
Award-winning author Mary Robinette Kowal is a 2023 guest lecturer for the Your Personal Odyssey Writing Workshop. Mary Robinette is the author of The Spare Man, The Glamourist Histories series, Ghost Talkers, and the Lady Astronaut Universe. She is part of the award-winning podcast Writing Excuses and has received the Astounding Award for Best New Writer, Read more