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The Best of Fantasy Authors Handbook, Volume I 2009-2013

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The Best of Fantasy Authors Handbook, Volume I 2009-2013

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Editor's Note:
Editor and author Philip Athans offers hands on advice for authors of fantasy, science fiction, horror, and fiction in general in this collection of 58 revised and expanded essays from the first five years of his long-running weekly blog, Fantasy Author’s Handbook. Essays range across six parts: Genre, Characters, Storytelling, Worldbuilding, Craft, and Authorship, covering everything from the nature of the genres themselves to the life of a professional writer, all steeped in a lifelong passion for fantasy, science fiction, and horror.The Best of Fantasy Author’s Handbook will educate, inspire, amuse, and encourage anyone who sets pen to paper to write in these essential genres.Philip Athans is the founding partner of Athans & Associates Creative Consulting and the best-selling author of Annihilation and more than a dozen other fantasy and horror books including The Guide to Writing Fantasy & Science Fiction and Writing Monsters. His blog, Fantasy Author’s Handbook, is updated every Tuesday. He makes his home in the foothills of the Washington Cascades, east of Seattle.

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