The Art of Writing Genre Fiction

Product Description A collection of writing articles by Bram Stoker Award-Winners Michael Knost and Tim Waggoner. Each piece offers sage advice for writers working in any genre. Topics covered include Decreasing the Learning Curve, Showing and Telling, Writing Fiction for Anthologies, Writing with an Emotional Core, Creating Great Characters, Working with Agents, Networking, and many more! Review "A veritable treasure trove of information for aspiring writers--straight from the mouths of today's top horror scribes!" - Rue Morgue Magazine on Writers Workshop of Horror. "Packing more knowledge and sound advice than four years' worth of college courses . . . It's focused on the root of your evil, the writing itself." - Fangoria Magazine on Writers Workshop of Horror. "Tim may be one of the most consistently excellent writers from project to project in our genre. Never lets a reader down." - Gene O'Neill "Bram Stoker Award-winner Tim Waggoner consistently delivers the goods when it comes to hard-hitting horror fiction, with compelling characters and dangerous horrors at every turn." - This is Horror About the Author Michael Knost has written in various genres and helmed multiple anthologies. His Writers Workshop of Horror won the 2009 Bram Stoker Award for superior achievement in nonfiction.His critically acclaimed Writers Workshop of Science Fiction and Fantasy is an Amazon #1 bestseller. A few other works are Return of the Mothman and Author's Guide to Marketing with Teeth. Bestselling author Tim Waggoner has published close to fifty novels and seven collections of short stories. He writes original dark fantasy and horror, as well as media tie-ins,and his articles on writing have appeared in numerous publications. He's won the Bram Stoker Award and been a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award, the Scribe Award, and the Splatterpunk Award. He's also a full-time tenured professor who teaches creative writing and composition at Sinclair College in Dayton, Ohio.