Spec Fic For Newbies Vol 1

<p><em>Locus Recommended Reading List 2023</em></p><p><em>BSFA for Best Non-Fiction Shortlist 2024</em></p><p><br></p><p>Tiffani Angus (Ph.D.) and Val Nolan (Ph.D.) met at the 2009 Clarion Writers' Workshop in California and since then have collaborated many times as fans and scholars on panels for SFF conventions and writing retreats.</p><p>Working together on this book and combining their experience as SFF writers and as university lecturers in Creative Writing and Literature made perfect sense!</p><p><br></p><p>Every year they see new students who want to write SFF/Horror but have never tried the genres have tried but found themselves floundering or worse have been discouraged by those who tell them Science Fiction Fantasy and Horror are somehow not real literature.</p><p><br></p><p>This book is for all those future Science Fiction Fantasy and Horror writers. Tiffani and Val are approaching these three exciting fields by breaking them down into bite-sized subgenres with a fun open and contemporary approach.</p><p><br></p><p>Each chapter contains 10 subgenres or tropes with a quick and nerdy history of each derived from classroom teaching practices along with a list of potential pitfalls a description of why it's fun to write in these subgenres as well as activities for new writers to try out and to get them started!</p>