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We invited Henry Lien, Lydia Kang, Monica Hay, Pintip Dunn, and Swati Teerdhala to answer a series of questions about their experiences and opinions regarding diversity in fantasy. Each question below is followed by the participants’ answers. As you read through them, note where there are similarities and repeated beats within the answers, and also […]

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 This post will go live 5 minutes before the session begins. To participate in the Q&A, post your questions below! Gail Carson Levine has written twenty-three books for children. Her best-known is Ella Enchanted, which won a Newbery honor in 1998 and was made into a motion picture in 2004.  Most of her books are […]

 This post will go live 5 minutes before the session begins. To participate in the Q&A, post your questions below! Sara Raasch has known she was destined for bookish things since the age of five, when her friends had a lemonade stand and she tagged along to sell her hand-drawn picture books too. Not […]

 This post will go live 5 minutes before the session begins. To participate in the Q&A, post your questions below! Born in Salt Lake City, Charlie N. Holmberg is the author of several (often romantic) fantasy novels, including the bestselling The Paper Magician series. A RITA Award finalist, she majored in English and minored in editing […]

Growing up in Singapore was a lonely journey for me, compounded by the fact that I am an only child. My ‘sibling’ was my Japanese Spitz. My solace was reading and writing stories on note paper. My imagination was my most cherished companion. I read just about everything. Encyclopedias, picture books, Enid Blyton, and – […]

Four and a half years ago, August 2012 to be precise, I wrote my first post for WriteOnCon entitled: World Building: Let Your Characters Be Your Guide. In preparation for this post, I went back and reread it. For the most part, I still stand behind the advice I gave in that article, and I […]

Let’s be honest: worldbuilding is intimidating. You’re basically creating something from scratch, and when you compare that to how wildly big and diverse our real world is, that can become a daunting task. That doesn’t mean you can’t create your own big and diverse world, however; you just need to know what elements to keep […]