SF/F Writers Who Blog
I ran across this Writers Who Blog article and thought it might be useful to list some science fiction and fantasy authors who have blogs.
4/06 UPDATE: Now showing which blogs do (
– click for feed) and do not (
) have a corresponding newsfeed.
1/07 UPDATE: This list is still being maintained. Updates are listed in the SF Tidbit posts.
3/07 UPDATE: Added group author blogs.
4/07 UPDATE: S. Andrew Swann has created a Yahoo Pipe for all of these author feeds.
6/07 UPDATE: Since this list was mentioned on BoingBoing, we’ve been getting lots of email. Cool! If you have any additions to list, please email john at sfsignal dot com but please…as you can imagine with the proliferation of the Internets, this list is growing fast. We will only be adding authors published by major publishers. Sorry, but the list is hard enough to maintain without considering all the unpublished and self-published authors, too. (Of course, nobody is stopping you from doing your own shout-out in the comments below.)
***** If you know of any professionally published sf/f authors or group blogs who are not on this list, let us know. *****
GROUP AUTHOR BLOGS
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Book View Cafe | Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff, Brenda Clough, Katie Daniel, Laura Anne Gilman, Christie Golden, Anne Harris, Sylvia Kelso, Katharine Eliska Kimbriel, Sue Lange, Ursula K. Le Guin, Rebecca Lickiss, Vonda N. McIntyre, Nancy Jane Moore, Pati Nagle, Darcy Pattison, Irene Radford, Madeleine Robins, Amy Sterling, Jennifer Stevenson, Susan Wright, Sarah Zettel. |
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Clockwork Storybook | Mark Finn, Chris Roberson, Matthew Sturges, Bill Williams, Bill Willingham. |
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Deep Genre | Constance Ash, Carol Berg, Barbara Denz, David Louis Edelman, Kate Elliott, Katharine Kerr, Laura J. Mixon, Kevin Andrew Murphy, Madeleine E. Robins, Sherwood Smith, Lois Tilton |
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Eat Our Brains | Bradley Denton, Steven Gould, Rory Harper, Morgan J. Locke ,Maureen F. McHugh, Madeleine E. Robins, Caroline Spector |
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Fangs, Fur, & Fey | Jes Battis, Jim Hetley, Jim C. Hines, Tim Pratt, Cherie Priest, Maggie Stiefvater, Sara Zettel…and waaaay too many more to list here. |
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Jerry Jarvis’ Wig | Lee Battersby, Lyn Battersby, Brendan Duffy, Paul Haines and Geoffrey Maloney. |
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Foul Papers | Shannan Palma and Lorien Dana. |
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Mad Genius Club | Rowena Cory Daniells, Dave Freer, Sarah A. Hoyt, John Lambshead, Louise Marley, Pati Nagle and Jennifer Stevenson. |
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Magical Words | David B. Coe, Faith Hunter, Misty Massey, and C.E. Murphy. |
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No Fear of the Future | Jayme Lynn Blaschke, Chris Nakashima-Brown, Stephen Dedman, Alexis Glynn Latner, Jess Nevins, Jess Nevins, Zoran Zivkovic’. |
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On the Fly Publications | Dan Fleming & Chris Beckett. |
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Ripping Ozzie Reads | Marianne de Pierres, Cory Daniells, Dirk Flinthart, Richard Harland, Trent Jamieson, Margo Lanagan, and Tansy Rayner-Roberts. |
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SF and Fantasy Enthusiasts | |
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SF novelists | Guy Adams, Alma Alexander, Tony Ballantyne, Eric Brown, Mark Chadbourn, David Devereux, Ian Graham, Paul Kearney, Ian Irvine, Tim Lebbon, Tom Lloyd, James Lovegrove, Gail Z. Martin, James Maxey, Juliet E. Mckenna, Suzanne McLeod, Mark Morris, Stan Nicholls, Andrew Oldham, Sarah Pinborough, Andy Remic, Brian Ruckley, Tim Stretton, Tricia Sullivan, James Swallow, Jeffrey Thomas, Jetse de Vries, Stephen Volk, Danie Ware, Conrad Williams, David J. Williams. |
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Something Wicked | Ann Aguirre, Shirley Damsgaard, Angie Fox, Tate Hallaway, and Karen MacInerney. |
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Talking Squid | Stephen Dedman, Chris Dickinson, Nick Evans, Russell B. Farr, Robert Hood, Chris Lawson, Garth Nix, Ben Peek, Robin Pen, Cat Sparks, Jonathan Strahan, Sean Williams |
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The Inferior 4+1 | Paul Di Filippo, Elizabeth Hand, Lucius Shepard, Paul Witcover |
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Wyrdsmiths | Eleanor Arnason, Tate Hallaway, William Henry, Douglas Hulick, Naomi Kritzer, H. Courreges LeBlanc, Kelly McCullough, Lyda Morehouse, Sean M. Murphy, Rosalind Nelson. |
INDIVIDUAL AUTHOR BLOGS
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Ryan Gale,
Getting started is easy. Just sign up for an account on blogger.com or wordpress.org and start typing. If you want to host your own blog and maintain full control, you can get a webhost and install WordPress as I have done at http://www.brianrathbone.com
Best of luck.
This is a great list and it is good to see all of these authors in one place. I have just started up an on-line book store at http://www.GreyDoorBooks.com, dedicated to sci-fi and fantasy and this will make a great link for users of the site to get quick access to the blogs of their favourite authors.
Thanks!
Rodney
This is a great list! But I’m wondering what constitutes a professional writer…do they have to be from a big publisher, or can it be a small publiserh. My first novel, “When the Sky Fell” is coming out this year from Silver Leaf Books. And yes, I have a blog!
-Brandon
Brandon, see the 6/07 update above.
Wow…them’s a lot of writer blogs. Question. Do writers use their blog as a source of motivation, stress relief, or to ease the sense of solitary confinement? I may peruse a few of these and get a feel of how a blog can enhance a writer’s writing.
This is a great list. I’ve been trying to search for just this sort of thing and was having a hard time, coming across sites more accidentally than on purpose. I’m hoping the list is still being kept up since i see most of the posts above are from 2007 or earlier.
From someone who has already been perusing, to Mamashares: it seems to me writers blog for many reasons including: making their published books better known, a means of connecting with other writers (many of us introverts who spend lots of time at the keyboard and who don’t live near lots of other writers), to practice writing and get feedback (especially those of us who are still trying to get published and can’t seem to find the right route to publication), to satisfy the curiosity of avid fans and get a feel (through their comments and specific responses to specific questions) for where the interest is (really, physically where: book signings and speaker events work best where there is a known fan base already in place). As someone who has recently started blogging, I find its greatest value for me is that it demands a certain degree of consistancy in active participation as both reader and writer that having a static web site (or having neither) doesn’t provide. That can only help.
My blog, with notes on writing, a serial of scenes from one of my fantasy novels I’m trying to revise, essays on food and cooking, and miscelaneous other bits: http:/home.earthlink.net/~wyverns/
BETRAYED! Zine is a zine that destroys all of these blogs by sending them to the deep ocean where they will be eaten by unknown lifeforms. It is not professionally published – that’s a stupid rule. GOOD BYE.
Useful and informative, many thanks.
I write science fiction too, and have a time travel novella published and a novel called “Don’t Mess with Earth” published this year. I write about some of the subjects in my novel and novella, and sometimes even write my thoughts about some current sci-fi or comic book movies.
http://www.cliffball.com and just click on the blog link to see my blog.
http://www.marcustwyman.com
A fresh twist on scifi that is sure to grab your interest. Check me out, and feel free to send me a message.
Hi, I might be wrong, as I read (and write) this on my oldie mobile phone with a smallish display, but I don’t see Brian Keene’s site/blog. You can find it at http://www.briankeene.com
Enjoy!
Brian Keene’s site/blog
http://www.briankeene.com
Enjoy!
Brian Keene’s site and blog
http://www.briankeene.com
Enjoy!
I’m sorry about the above unintentional triplicity. Would please delete my two previous posts? And maybe also this? Thank you.
fyi – you guys have got John Meaney listed as “John Meany”
Well, we heard he wasn’t very nice.
I kid! Thanks for the correction. Fixed above.
Hey, I is a writer! And I blog!
http://worldweaverweb.wordpress.com/
(writing blog, which is a gathering place of writing related stuff culled from places like SF Novelists (yes, I blog there far more regularly than some of the other names you’ve listed, and so do a heap of other writers whom I haven’t seen listed there at all…) StorytellersUnplugged (on the 30th of every month) and RedRoom)
http://anghara.livejournal.com
(personal blog which is fairly prolific and eclectic)
would appreciate an add!
I’m going to update this.
My two science fiction novels are Out of Time and Don’t Mess With Earth and check out my Blog for information on where those two plus my other novel, The Usurper, which isn’t science fiction can be found.
Ahem:
http://www.lawrenceperson.com/
Hey, could you add me? I’m a writer. Check out my articles at http://www.examiner.com/scifi-in-portland/nick-lang From the sci-fi Guru :>