Therese Arkenberg: Writing and Editing
“Of the Generation” in Roar and Thunder magazine; reprinted in Different Dragons II from WolfSinger Publications; also reprinted in the Heroic Fantasy anthology from Flame Tree Publishing “Lord Shashensa” in Sword and Sorceress XXIV (with a shorter version reprinted by Nevermet Press in Stories in the Ether) Find it at: Amazon Barnes and Noble Alibris Powell’s Better World Books “The…
“Hans and Gretta,” originally published in Everyday Weirdness, reprinted in Bete Noire Issue #8 “The Family,” a charity story published on this very blog. “A Wizard of the Roads” in Daily Science Fiction “Sibial’ In Exile” in Neo-Opsis Magazine Issue #24 “Ms Brellin,” originally in Semaphore Magazine, reprinted in the debut issue of Grim Corps…
“What’s a Demon For” won Second Prize, Youth division in OddCon’s 2008 OddContest for flash fiction. “Dragon Snot and Chosen Ones” at Untied Shoelaces of the Mind (and in its first anthology) Find it at: Amazon Barnes & Noble “Few Are Called” at Every Day Fiction “Firebringer” at Every Day Fiction “The Queen’s Arrival,” originally…
Strong stories are not necessarily short. They don’t need to be Hemingway-esque masterpieces of bare prose (even Hemingway didn’t always write that way). And it would be hypocritical to argue for only short sentences or short paragraphs when I have to make a conscious effort to write either. But in a strong story, every word…
You can write your story with nothing but a reasonably flat surface and something that leaves a mark, but it’s a lot easier when you have the right tools. Happily, there are a lot of useful resources out there. Here are some of my favorites. I encountered a few while writing The Starter Guide for Professional…
“The Grace of Turning Back,” the final story of the Curse-Strewn World sequence, appears in Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #179, which can be read on the BCS website or in the Kindle store. The Tynesi merchants, who traded everything from the silver rice of Timru and perfume leaves from Simrandu to chips of ivory off the Keld’s temples, had…
In the May 2015 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact, alongside fiction from Rajnar Vajra, But Sparhawk, Robert R. Chase, Aubry Kae Anderson, and J.L. Forrest, my story “Arnheim’s World” explores the economics, ethics, and (anti)sociability of terraforming. Environment, economics, ethics, all stewing in a high-tension dilemma. Exactly the kind of thing you’d expect…
A lot of editing and rewriting involves relatively minor mechanical and technical changes. A lot. Not that I’m complaining; making these simple changes is a routine part of my work, and if nothing else it keeps me steadily employed. Many of them are changes I make to my own writing on a second draft! However,…
Lose no time in going to check out the latest installment in Across the Curse-Strewn World, a short story sequence following the wizard Aniver and his friend Semira’s quest to rescue his home city, which has somehow become lost in time. Their discoveries in the terrifying library of Arisbat have pointed Aniver and Semira in…
It’s been a busy start to the new year, which I appreciate but means that blogging has taken a backseat to writing, editing, etc. When I get really busy, I often find that lists are a simple way to keep me in the blogging groove. Writers, especially self-published writers, often need to find excellent images…