Language Arts & Disciplines Composition & Creative Writing
A Writer's Guide to Speculative Fiction: Science Fiction and Fantasy
- Publisher
- Self-Counsel Press
- Initial publish date
- Dec 2019
- Category
- Composition & Creative Writing, Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781770403161
- Publish Date
- Dec 2019
- List Price
- $26.95
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Crawford Kilian has been teaching and writing online since the 1980s. He developed Capilano University's first online writing course, as well as teaching how to write for multimedia and the web. Kilian has published over 20 books as well as hundreds of articles both in print and online. He is a contributing editor of The Tyee.ca, and runs numerous blogs. His Self-Counsel books include Writing for the Web, Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy, and the forthcoming Write Your Nonfiction Book Online.Crawford blogs about writing: * Writing for the Web * Ask the English Teacher * Books and Writers * Write a Novel * Write Your Nonfiction Book
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Mexican by birth, Canadian by inclination. Silvia’s debut novel, Signal to Noise, about music and magic, won a Copper Cylinder Award and was nominated for the British Fantasy, Locus, Sunburst and Aurora awards. Her second novel, Certain Dark Things, focuses on narco vampires in Mexico City. It was selected as one of NPR’s best books of 2016 and is a finalist for the Locus and Sunburst awards.
Her third novel, The Beautiful Ones, will be out in the fall of 2017.
Silvia’s first collection, This Strange Way of Dying, was a finalist for the Sunburst Award. Her stories have also been collected in Love & Other Poisons.
She has edited several anthologies, including She Walks in Shadows (World Fantasy Award winner, published in the USA as Cthulhu’s Daughters), Sword & Mythos, Fungi, Dead North and Fractured. Silvia is the publisher of Innsmouth Free Press. She also co-edits The Jewish Mexican Literary Review with Lavie Tidhar and the horror magazine The Dark with Sean Wallace.
She has an MA in Science and Technology Studies from the University of British Columbia. Her thesis can be read online and is titled “Magna Mater: Women and Eugenic Thought in the Work of H.P. Lovecraft.”
