Author of the Week: Patricia Briggs
Patricia Briggs lives in Washington (the state) with her husband, children, and a small herd of horses. She hates biographies, but loves writing interesting stories.
I have a few different categories for authors I read. There are some who have one or two good stories, but never seem to produce anything else worth reading. There are others who come up with one good setting or world that I like, but none of their other settings strike the same chord. For both of these groups, I’ll read the synopsis on the back of the book or inside the dust jacket and sometimes [...]
Author of the Week: Jim Butcher
The Dresden Files, for those of you who do not know, are an ongoing series about a professional wizard in modern-day Chicago
Author of the Week: C.S. Friedman
C.S. Friedman was born in 1957 and soon proved to be a precocious child, reading and writing well above her age level. She discovered Isaac Asimov’s writing at the tender age of twelve (and if you are familiar with Asimov, you know he’s well capable of blowing the mind of adept adults…you can imagine the effect on a twelve-year-old), and decided that science fiction was the ultimate literature. (She changed her mind at some point to include fantasy, which I will get to in good time.)
Before publishing her first novel, In Conquest Born, Friedman studied costume design and earned an [...]
Author of the Week: George R.R. Martin
George R.R. Martin was born on September 20, 1948, is still alive and kicking, and mostly famous (in our circles) for his fantasy epic A Song of Ice and Fire (hereafter simply known as ‘Ice and Fire’, because the full title is too long, and the acronym ASoIaF is almost as bothersome to write).
When writing this first sentence I checked out Robert Jordan’s biography to see when he was born, so that I could scare you by drawing some parallels between unfinished epic fantasy series and old age. Uncanny as it might seem, Jordan and Martin were born on the [...]
Author of the Week: Barbara Hambly
Barbara Hambly was born in 1951, has written more than forty novels, and has recently started playing World of Warcraft. She is also my favourite author, beating out some fairly classy competition, as you’ll see from columns to come.
She has a Masters in Medieval History and spent a year in Bordeaux as a part of her work for that degree. In the time between that and writing fulltime, she worked as a high school teacher, model, waitress, technical editor (which shows up a bit in her inside knowledge of mainframe computers in one of her series), all-night liquor store clerk, [...]
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