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Support sffworld.com , buy your books through these links ( read more Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk Amazon.de or Amazon.ca Victoria Strauss News Biography Books Interviews Interview (Mar 1999) Book Reviews Arm of the Stone Victoria Strauss Interview (Mar 1999) Q: How does one grow up to be a fantasy writer? V: If you're me, you grow up reading myths and fairy tales. Even as a very small child, this was my favorite kind of reading. Although I read widely (besides fantasy and science fiction, mystery is my favorite genre), I always come back to mythic or fairy-tale literature. When I began writing, at the age of 17, it just seemed natural to write fantasyI honestly can't remember ever wanting to write anything else. Q: Which authors would you say have been your greatest inspiration sources? V: Some of my all-time favorites are Ursula LeGuin (especially THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS), John Crowley (especially LITTLE, BIG) Mervyn Peake (the GORMENGHAST trilogy), Guy Gavriel Kay (especially THE FIONAVAR TAPESTRY), Jane Gaskell (THE CITY), Anne McCaffrey's first Pern books, and anything by Patricia McKillip. I've read many books over the years, but these are the ones that stay with me. Q: Any regrets in becoming a full time writer?

23. Writer Beware--an Article By Victoria Strauss On How To Recognize Literary Scams warnings for writers about literary scams by victoria strauss. There are sharks out there in the literary waters Copyright 19992003 victoria strauss. This article may be reproduced, with permission, for distribution to http://www.sff.net/people/victoriastrauss/beware.html

Back to Articles Writer Beware by Victoria Strauss There are sharks out there in the literary waters. Literary deceptions abound, from fee-charging agents to dishonest book doctors to fraudulent subsidy publishers to fake contests. Some of them are staggeringly successfulEdit Ink, for instance, an editing firm that engaged in a kickback scheme with disreputable literary agents and established its own bogus agencies to send yet more business its way, made millions of dollars before writers and writers' groups finally blew the whistle. Edit Ink's owners have been indicted, and ordered to pay fines as well as reparations to the writers they defrauded. But law enforcement isn't very interested in literary fraud, much of which involves relatively small amounts of money (per person, that isin aggregate, literary fraud is a multi-million-dollar-a-year business). The vast majority of the sharks go unpublicized and unpunished, leaving them free not just to separate unsuspecting writers from their cash, but to spoil their hopes and dreams. The good news is that you can protect yourself, with a little information and a healthy dose of caution. Below are some tips and resources to help you do so.

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25. The SF Site Featured Review: The Darkness That Comes Before A review by victoria strauss. Advertisement. One of the most rewarding aspects of book reviewing is Copyright © 2003 victoria strauss. victoria strauss is a novelist, and a lifelong http://www.sfsite.com/02b/td146.htm

Ads_kid=0;Ads_bid=0;Ads_xl=0;Ads_yl=0;Ads_xp='';Ads_yp='';Ads_opt=0;Ads_wrd='[KeyWord]';Ads_prf='';Ads_par='';Ads_cnturl='';Ads_sec=0; The Darkness That Comes Before: Book 1 of The Prince of Nothing R. Scott Bakker Penguin Canada, 584 pages R. Scott Bakker R. Scott Bakker is a student of literature, history, philosophy, and ancient languages. He holds a BA in English language and literature, an MA in theory and criticism, and is presently completing his PhD in philosophy at Vanderbilt University. He lives in London, Ontario. The Darkness That Comes Before is his first novel. ISFDB Bibliography Article: Why Fantasy and Why Now? by R. Scott Bakker A review by Victoria Strauss Advertisement Ads_kid=0;Ads_bid=0;Ads_xl=0;Ads_yl=0;Ads_xp='';Ads_yp='';Ads_opt=0;Ads_wrd='[KeyWord]';Ads_prf='';Ads_par='';Ads_cnturl='';Ads_sec=0; One of the most rewarding aspects of book reviewing is encountering new voices not established authors whose books you haven't read before (though that can be thrilling too), but brand-new writers whose careers you know you're going to want to follow. Reading R. Scott Bakker's debut novel, The Darkness That Comes Before , I had that feeling of discovery tempered, it has to be said, with a certain amount of frustration, for this fascinating, occasionally brilliant book is also overwritten and self-indulgent. Nevertheless, it's an impressive start to what looks likely to become a noteworthy epic fantasy trilogy.

26. Interview: A Conversation With Victoria Strauss Interview A Conversation With victoria strauss by Claire E. White The Internet Writing Journal(R). A Conversation With victoria strauss. http://www.writerswrite.com/journal/feb04/strauss.htm

January-February, 2004 Index Interviews: Victoria Strauss Libba Bray Articles: Choosing a Writing Teacher Quirky and Effective Book Launches Wrestling With Rejection Features: Book Reviews Return to This Issue's Index Return to Homepage Subscribe A Conversation With Victoria Strauss by Claire E. White Bestselling fantasy author Victoria Strauss was born in Exeter, New Hampshire. Her father, a university professor, was offered numerous research grants and guest professorships. As a result, during her childhood and adolescence her family lived several U.S. states, Ireland, England, and Germany, and traveled throughout Europe. Her mother is a published novelist. As a child, she loved to read and became hooked on writing as a teenager, completing her first novel, The Lady of Rhuddesmere , at the age of seventeen. Victoria graduated from Vassar College with a degree in Comparative Religion, a choice which she says, "didn't do much to help me find a conventional job, but did satisfy my fascination with world belief systems, an interest that enduringly informs my writing." After graduation, she took a number of jobs to support her writing habit, eventually taking a permanent job as the financial manager of a not-for-profit corporation "a very strange place for a "D" math student to find herself!" notes Victoria. Ten years after she wrote it

27. Victoria Strauss Interview with victoria strauss Interview by Jenna Glatzer. victoria strauss is the author of six fantasy novels, including The Arm http://www.absolutewrite.com/novels/victoria_strauss.htm

Play/Screen Writing Freelance Writing Specialty Writing Interview with Victoria Strauss Interview by Jenna Glatzer Victoria Strauss is the author of six fantasy novels, including The Arm of the Stone The Garden of the Stone , and her most recent, The Burning Land , just out from HarperCollins Eos. She’s a regular book reviewer for the online journal SF Site, and her articles on writing have appeared in Writer’s Digest and elsewhere. She’s an active member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, where she serves as vice-Chair of the Writing Scams Committee and maintains the Writer Beware literary scams warning website ( www.writerbeware.com ). She welcomes visitors to her own website: www.victoriastrauss.com If I understand correctly, you wrote your first novel right after you graduated from high school. It took almost a decade, but that novel ( The Lady of Rhuddesmere) was published and well-received. Tell me about those nearly-ten intervening years: were you just an amazing writer when you were 17, or did you do a lot of editing and revising over the years to make it publishable? Meredith Charpentier, the editor who did eventually buy it, was an old-fashioned Maxwell Perkins kind of editor who was willing to work intensively with an author to turn a flawed manuscript into a publishable book. Under her guidance I completely rewrote it (among other things, she wanted me to shift from a third- to a first-person viewpoint), and then rewrote it again. It was a tough experience, and I had to put my ego on hold. But it was also incredibly rewarding, and I learned a huge amount about writing by doing it. I’ll always be grateful to Meredith for being so generous with her time and wisdom.

28. Victoria Strauss Bibliography A bibliography of victoria strauss s books and short stories, with book covers and links to related authors. Fantastic Fiction, victoria strauss. Search Authors. http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/authors/Victoria_Strauss.htm

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29. The SF Site Featured Review: The Dispossessed Past Feature Reviews. A review by victoria strauss. Advertisement. In other words, truly an SF masterwork. Copyright © 2000 by victoria strauss. http://www.sfsite.com/01b/dis73.htm

Ads_kid=0;Ads_bid=0;Ads_xl=0;Ads_yl=0;Ads_xp='';Ads_yp='';Ads_opt=0;Ads_wrd='[KeyWord]';Ads_prf='';Ads_par='';Ads_cnturl='';Ads_sec=0; The Dispossessed Ursula K. Le Guin Orion Millennium, 319 pages Chris Moore Ursula K. Le Guin Ursula K. Le Guin was born in 1929, the daughter of a writer and an anthropologist. She published her first novel, Rocannon's World , in 1966. Her fourth novel, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) won both the Hugo and Nebula awards, a feat she repeated with The Dispossessed (1974). The Earthsea trilogy established her as a master of fantasy as well as science fiction. She has also published poetry and short story collections, and she received the Pilgrim Award in 1989 for her critical writings. Ursula K. Le Guin Website ISFDB Bibliography A review by Victoria Strauss Advertisement Ads_kid=0;Ads_bid=0;Ads_xl=0;Ads_yl=0;Ads_xp='';Ads_yp='';Ads_opt=0;Ads_wrd='[KeyWord]';Ads_prf='';Ads_par='';Ads_cnturl='';Ads_sec=0; This edition of The Dispossessed is part of Millennium's SF Masterworks series, which describes itself as "a library of the greatest SF ever written, chosen with the help of today's leading SF writers and editors." The series, which includes works by Dick, Zelazny, Silverberg, and Delany, has proven so successful that Millennium plans a similar Fantasy Masterworks series, beginning this year. The Dispossessed which has not been out of print since its original publication in 1974 is perhaps Le Guin's most famous work, and arguably her most intellectually challenging. It's a book of opposites: a utopian novel that doesn't flinch from exposing the flaws of its model society, a feminist-themed narrative with a male protagonist, a social commentary that presents communal cooperation as the truest human ideal, yet focuses on the inevitable separateness of the creative individual within such a structure. Through these dichotomies, Le Guin examines the tension between human aspiration and human nature, between what can be dreamed and what can be achieved. This larger theme, together with Le Guin's mature mastery of her craft, give

30. The SF Site Featured Review: More Than Human A review by victoria strauss. Advertisement. It s a mustread from one of the great masters of the genre. Copyright © 2000 by victoria strauss. http://www.sfsite.com/08b/mth87.htm

Ads_kid=0;Ads_bid=0;Ads_xl=0;Ads_yl=0;Ads_xp='';Ads_yp='';Ads_opt=0;Ads_wrd='[KeyWord]';Ads_prf='';Ads_par='';Ads_cnturl='';Ads_sec=0; More Than Human Theodore Sturgeon Orion Millennium, 233 pages Fred Gambino Theodore Sturgeon Born Edward Hamilton Waldo in 1918, he changed his name to Theodore Sturgeon in his early teens. He sold his first story, "Heavy Insurance," in 1938 for $5 to McClure's Syndicate for publication in newspapers. The sale of "The God in the Garden" to Unknown was his first published SF story. His novel, More Than Human , won the International Fantasy Award. His story, "Slow Sculpture," won both the Hugo and Nebula awards. He died on May 8, 1985, and he was posthumously awarded the World Fantasy Life Achievement Award. Theodore Sturgeon Literary Trust ISFDB Bibliography SF Site Review: To Marry Medusa ... Theodore Sturgeon is Alive and Well a Sturgeon Website A review by Victoria Strauss Advertisement Ads_kid=0;Ads_bid=0;Ads_xl=0;Ads_yl=0;Ads_xp='';Ads_yp='';Ads_opt=0;Ads_wrd='[KeyWord]';Ads_prf='';Ads_par='';Ads_cnturl='';Ads_sec=0; One of the key figures of science fiction's so-called Golden Age, Theodore Sturgeon stands out from his contemporaries both in the literary quality of his writing and his focus on creating strong, complex characters as well as fast-paced plots. He has been an influence on writers as diverse as Samuel Delany and Ray Bradbury, and serves as a continuing source of inspiration to SF's younger generation. His work fell out of print following his death in 1985, but recent years have seen complete reissues of his short story collections, and a number of reprintings of his novels including this one, from Millennium's SF Masterworks series.

31. Victoria Strauss - HarperCollins victoria strauss p victoria strauss was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, and graduated from Vassar College with a BA in Comparative Religion. victoria strauss. http://www.harpercollins.com/catalog/author_xml.asp?authorid=18711

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33. IWJ Features Interviews With Victoria Strauss And Libba Bray The Write News(TM) IWJ Features Interviews With victoria strauss and Libba Bray. http://www.writenews.com/2004/022004_iwj_janfeb.htm

writenews.com Index Advertising Classifieds Feedback Homepage ... Subscribe Other Resources HowToWeb The Internet Writing Journal Readers Read TM ... WWForums.com News, features and resources for media and publishing professionals. Friday, February 20, 2004 Homepage Archives Features Events ... Jobs IWJ Features Interviews With Victoria Strauss and Libba Bray The January/February issue of The Internet Writing Journal features an exclusive interview with bestselling fantasy novelist Victoria Strauss. Victoria Strauss received critical raves for her first two adult fantasies, The Arm of the Stone (Eos) and The Garden of the Stone (Eos). In the interview, Victoria discusses her latest novel, The Burning Land , and her popular website, Writers Beware, which helps protect writers from literary scams. The January/February issue also features an exclusive interview with novelist Libba Bray whose debut Young Adult book, A Great and Terrible Beauty (Delacorte), hit the New York Times bestseller list. In the interview, Libba talks about her debut novel, her love for the Victorian era and why a sense of humor is the most important asset a writer can have. The IWJ can be found online at: http://www.writerswrite.com/journal/

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Subscribe to our Free Newsletter! Subscribe Interview with Victoria Strauss Interview by Tina Morgan Fiction Factor - What prompted you to create Writer Beware? Victoria Strauss - When I first went online about five years ago, I didn't have much idea of how common literary fraud really is. My own path to publication was pretty smoothI never ran across any questionable practices at all, and I'm afraid I thought my experience was typical. I was shocked to discover, through my participation in various online writers' forums, how many writers have been defrauded by disreputable agents, publishers, book doctors, and others. I became fascinated enough, and then angry enough, to do quite a bit of research on the subject. Around this time I was checking out the "call for volunteers" section of the website of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (of which I'm a member), and saw a request for a volunteer to create a section of the website that would warn about literary scams. It seemed a perfect match between my interest and SFWA's need. That's how Writer Beware came about. FF - Can you tell us a little more about the site and about the SFWA Writing Scam Committee?

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Books of the Week To see more information or to purchase the featured books, click on the image of the book jacket. Fantasy / Time Travel/ Horror The Boys are Back in Town Golden, Christopher YA/ Issues/ Homelessness and Foster Living Arrangements Hartinger, Brent The Last Chance Texaco HarperCollins 0-06-0509120 Lucy Pitt's last chance to avoid being sent to Eat-Their-Young Island, the last stop in the foster care system, is Kindle House, a group home in a dilapidated mansion staffed by Ben and Gina, a childless young couple, Mrs. Morgan who tells Lucy the rules while making homemade pretzels, and Leon, a Native American who had once been a resident of The Last Chance Texaco (the nickname for Kindle House). When a popular jock torments her in class she hauls off and slugs him landing them both in detention on trash pick-up detail. Eventually they fall in love but their togetherness and Lucy's acceptance of having a home are threatened when an arsonist sets cars in the neighborhood on fire and everyone thinks it was someone from the group home. When she sneaks out to meet Nate, who has a camcorder, and they try to catch the perpetrator they end up attempting to extinguish a fire and Nate is arrested. Fortunately it moves onward to a wonderful ending. After dealing with kids in the system for 17 years and living with foster kids 13 years (approximately 70 stayed in our house for varying lengths of time) I look very closely at books about them and usually find them wanting but Last Chance Texaco is right on. Hartinger captured the voices of the kids perfectly and portrayed a system that doesn?t work but has some really good caring people trying to work with it extremely well

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Fantasy Reviews Sorry for the missing links. I���m working as fast as I can to re-link everything lost in the demise of the old server. All the reviews are still here and accessible through the archive. Keep checking back for access through the links. Bell, Hilari - Flame: The Book of Sorahb Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee - The Conch Bearer ... The Dollmage T he Ring of Five Dragons - Lustbader, Eric Van Secret Sacrament Jordan, Sherryl ... Ellen Kushner T he Ring of Five Dragons - Lustbader, Eric Van Daughter of the Forest - Marillier, Juliet ... Oppel, Kenneth - Airborn born The Faces of Fantsy - Patti Perret Treasure at the Heart of the Tanglewood - Meredith Ann Pierce ... Return to the Fluent in Fantasy Page

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SFR INTERVIEW WITH VICTORIA STRAUSS by Jody Wallace, 2004 1) THE BURNING LAND (TBL) is a fantasy novel, but the romantic aspects of it are intense. Relationship issues definitely influence many of the characters' choices. Did that just feel "right" for this particular book or do you often find yourself including heavier romantic threads when you conceive of story ideas? Both as a reader and a writer, a good love story is something I really enjoy, and I always try and include one when I'm planning a novel. I started out writing young adult fantasy, where romantic elements had to be muted, if present at all. One of several reasons I made the switch to adult fiction was to be able to write a complex (and consummated) romantic relationship. 2) Following up from that questionthat one being more abstracttell us a little bit about your various books and how (and if) they fit in the speculative romance subgenre. As I mentioned, my first three novels were YA. There are some implied romantic elements, but they don't play a large part in the overall story. By contrast, my adult books all feature a love story as an important element of the plot.

39. The Burning Land By Victoria Strauss SFR Book Reviews THE BURNING LAND victoria strauss Eos 2004 ISBN 0380978911. In a realm where the god Ârata sleeps beneath the http://www.sfronline.com/reviews/burningland.htm

SFR Book Reviews THE BURNING LAND Victoria Strauss Eos 2004 ISBN: 0380978911 In a realm where the god Ârata sleeps beneath the mystical desert known as the Burning Land, some humans are blessed with the ability to shape magic. Ever since powerful mages nearly destroyed the world, however, the use of magic has been severely regulated. Shapers take drugs to make it nearly impossible for them to use their powers, and when they do, it's only in worship of Ârata. Both the kingthe leader of secular Arsaceand the Brethrenthe near-immortal descendents of the First Messenger of Âratawere dethroned during a recent uprising of a cult that thought Ârata didn't exist, but they've regained power. There is also a prophecy that the First Messenger was only the first, and when the second comes, Ârata will wake and return the earth to what they called the primal age (their version of Heaven). Into this complex religious and social web walks our hero, a devout Shaper named Gyalo, who is asked by the Brethren to journey into the Burning Land, which is sacred, and investigate a force the Dreamers have sensed there. They think it might be renegade Shapers, amoral, unchained, and able to wreak destruction if they so chose. Gyalo is chosen because he's unusually pious and the Brethren feel that, no matter what, he'll do what's needed without breaking his vows to Ârata.

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